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SubjectRe: [PATCH 15/17] file: In f_dupfd read RLIMIT_NOFILE once.
On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 05:04:23PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Simplify the code, and remove the chance of races by reading
> RLIMIT_NOFILE only once in f_dupfd.
>
> Pass the read value of RLIMIT_NOFILE into alloc_fd which is the other
> location the rlimit was read in f_dupfd. As f_dupfd is the only
> caller of alloc_fd this changing alloc_fd is trivially safe.
>
> Further this causes alloc_fd to take all of the same arguments as
> __alloc_fd except for the files_struct argument.
>
> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> ---

Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>

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