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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-08-04 15:12:02 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-08-04 15:12:02 -0700 |
commit | 4f30a60aa78410496e5ffe632a371c00f0d83a8d (patch) | |
tree | b2f74fcd6b286c961f310548de9b2cc855787849 /arch/x86/entry | |
parent | 74858abbb1032222f922487fd1a24513bbed80f9 (diff) | |
parent | a5161eeef97cb0cdc4de966005926db2f5894af4 (diff) |
Merge tag 'close-range-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux
Pull close_range() implementation from Christian Brauner:
"This adds the close_range() syscall. It allows to efficiently close a
range of file descriptors up to all file descriptors of a calling
task.
This is coordinated with the FreeBSD folks which have copied our
version of this syscall and in the meantime have already merged it in
April 2019:
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21627
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=359836
The syscall originally came up in a discussion around the new mount
API and making new file descriptor types cloexec by default. During
this discussion, Al suggested the close_range() syscall.
First, it helps to close all file descriptors of an exec()ing task.
This can be done safely via (quoting Al's example from [1] verbatim):
/* that exec is sensitive */
unshare(CLONE_FILES);
/* we don't want anything past stderr here */
close_range(3, ~0U);
execve(....);
The code snippet above is one way of working around the problem that
file descriptors are not cloexec by default. This is aggravated by the
fact that we can't just switch them over without massively regressing
userspace. For a whole class of programs having an in-kernel method of
closing all file descriptors is very helpful (e.g. demons, service
managers, programming language standard libraries, container managers
etc.).
Second, it allows userspace to avoid implementing closing all file
descriptors by parsing through /proc/<pid>/fd/* and calling close() on
each file descriptor and other hacks. From looking at various
large(ish) userspace code bases this or similar patterns are very
common in service managers, container runtimes, and programming
language runtimes/standard libraries such as Python or Rust.
In addition, the syscall will also work for tasks that do not have
procfs mounted and on kernels that do not have procfs support compiled
in. In such situations the only way to make sure that all file
descriptors are closed is to call close() on each file descriptor up
to UINT_MAX or RLIMIT_NOFILE, OPEN_MAX trickery.
Based on Linus' suggestion close_range() also comes with a new flag
CLOSE_RANGE_UNSHARE to more elegantly handle file descriptor dropping
right before exec. This would usually be expressed in the sequence:
unshare(CLONE_FILES);
close_range(3, ~0U);
as pointed out by Linus it might be desirable to have this be a part
of close_range() itself under a new flag CLOSE_RANGE_UNSHARE which
gets especially handy when we're closing all file descriptors above a
certain threshold.
Test-suite as always included"
* tag 'close-range-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
tests: add CLOSE_RANGE_UNSHARE tests
close_range: add CLOSE_RANGE_UNSHARE
tests: add close_range() tests
arch: wire-up close_range()
open: add close_range()
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/entry')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl | 1 |
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl index d8f8a1a69ed1..3f0c6546b47c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl +++ b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl @@ -440,6 +440,7 @@ 433 i386 fspick sys_fspick 434 i386 pidfd_open sys_pidfd_open 435 i386 clone3 sys_clone3 +436 i386 close_range sys_close_range 437 i386 openat2 sys_openat2 438 i386 pidfd_getfd sys_pidfd_getfd 439 i386 faccessat2 sys_faccessat2 diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl index 78847b32e137..f8637c2c863d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl +++ b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl @@ -357,6 +357,7 @@ 433 common fspick sys_fspick 434 common pidfd_open sys_pidfd_open 435 common clone3 sys_clone3 +436 common close_range sys_close_range 437 common openat2 sys_openat2 438 common pidfd_getfd sys_pidfd_getfd 439 common faccessat2 sys_faccessat2 |