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Subject[PATCH V5 03/10] fork: add KERNEL_WORKER flag to not dup/clone files
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Each vhost device gets a thread that is used to perform IO and management
operations. Instead of a thread that is accessing a device, the thread is
part of the device, so when it calls the kernel_worker() function added in
the next patch we can't dup or clone the parent's files/FDS because it
would do an extra increment on ourself.

Later, when we do:

Qemu process exits:
do_exit -> exit_files -> put_files_struct -> close_files

we would leak the device's resources because of that extra refcount
on the fd or file_struct.

This patch adds a no_files option so these worker threads can prevent
taking an extra refcount on themselves.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
---
include/linux/sched/task.h | 1 +
kernel/fork.c | 11 +++++++++--
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched/task.h b/include/linux/sched/task.h
index 1ad98e31d5bc..47ede41b19c5 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/task.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/task.h
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ struct css_set;

#define KERN_WORKER_IO BIT(0)
#define KERN_WORKER_USER BIT(1)
+#define KERN_WORKER_NO_FILES BIT(2)

struct kernel_clone_args {
u64 flags;
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 8f6cd9581e2e..a1ba423eec4d 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1529,7 +1529,8 @@ static int copy_fs(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
return 0;
}

-static int copy_files(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
+static int copy_files(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk,
+ int no_files)
{
struct files_struct *oldf, *newf;
int error = 0;
@@ -1541,6 +1542,11 @@ static int copy_files(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
if (!oldf)
goto out;

+ if (no_files) {
+ tsk->files = NULL;
+ goto out;
+ }
+
if (clone_flags & CLONE_FILES) {
atomic_inc(&oldf->count);
goto out;
@@ -2179,7 +2185,8 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
retval = copy_semundo(clone_flags, p);
if (retval)
goto bad_fork_cleanup_security;
- retval = copy_files(clone_flags, p);
+ retval = copy_files(clone_flags, p,
+ args->worker_flags & KERN_WORKER_NO_FILES);
if (retval)
goto bad_fork_cleanup_semundo;
retval = copy_fs(clone_flags, p);
--
2.25.1
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