Re: [PATCH v5 0/3] Support userspace-selected fds

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>]

[CC += linux-api]

On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 at 07:19, Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> wrote:
>
> 5.8 material, not intended for 5.7. Now includes a patch for man-pages,
> attached to this cover letter.
>
> Inspired by the X protocol's handling of XIDs, allow userspace to select
> the file descriptor opened by a call like openat2, so that it can use
> the resulting file descriptor in subsequent system calls without waiting
> for the response to the initial openat2 syscall.
>
> The first patch is independent of the other two; it allows reserving
> file descriptors below a certain minimum for userspace-selected fd
> allocation only.
>
> The second patch implements userspace-selected fd allocation for
> openat2, introducing a new O_SPECIFIC_FD flag and an fd field in struct
> open_how. In io_uring, this allows sequences like openat2/read/close
> without waiting for the openat2 to complete. Multiple such sequences can
> overlap, as long as each uses a distinct file descriptor.
>
> The third patch adds userspace-selected fd allocation to pipe2 as well.
> I did this partly as a demonstration of how simple it is to wire up
> O_SPECIFIC_FD support for any fd-allocating system call, and partly in
> the hopes that this may make it more useful to wire up io_uring support
> for pipe2 in the future.
>
> v5:
>
> Rename padding field to __padding.
> Add tests for non-zero __padding.
> Include patch for man-pages.
>
> v4:
>
> Changed fd field to __u32.
> Expanded and consolidated checks that return -EINVAL for invalid arguments.
> Simplified and commented build_open_how.
> Add documentation comment for fd field.
> Add kselftests.
>
> Thanks to Aleksa Sarai for feedback.
>
> v3:
>
> This new version has an API to atomically increase the minimum fd and
> return the previous minimum, rather than just getting and setting the
> minimum; this makes it easier to allocate a range. (A library that might
> initialize after the program has already opened other file descriptors
> may need to check for existing open fds in the range after reserving it,
> and reserve more fds if needed; this can be done entirely in userspace,
> and we can't really do anything simpler in the kernel due to limitations
> on file-descriptor semantics, so this patch series avoids introducing
> any extra complexity in the kernel.)
>
> This new version also supports a __get_specific_unused_fd_flags call
> which accepts the limit for RLIMIT_NOFILE as an argument, analogous to
> __get_unused_fd_flags, since io_uring needs that to correctly handle
> RLIMIT_NOFILE.
>
> Thanks to Jens Axboe for review and feedback.
>
> v2:
>
> Version 2 was a version incorporated into a larger patch series from Jens Axboe
> on io_uring.
>
> Josh Triplett (3):
>   fs: Support setting a minimum fd for "lowest available fd" allocation
>   fs: openat2: Extend open_how to allow userspace-selected fds
>   fs: pipe2: Support O_SPECIFIC_FD
>
>  fs/fcntl.c                                    |  2 +-
>  fs/file.c                                     | 62 +++++++++++++++++--
>  fs/io_uring.c                                 |  3 +-
>  fs/open.c                                     |  8 ++-
>  fs/pipe.c                                     | 16 +++--
>  include/linux/fcntl.h                         |  5 +-
>  include/linux/fdtable.h                       |  1 +
>  include/linux/file.h                          |  4 ++
>  include/uapi/asm-generic/fcntl.h              |  4 ++
>  include/uapi/linux/openat2.h                  |  3 +
>  include/uapi/linux/prctl.h                    |  3 +
>  kernel/sys.c                                  |  5 ++
>  tools/testing/selftests/openat2/helpers.c     |  2 +-
>  tools/testing/selftests/openat2/helpers.h     | 21 +++++--
>  .../testing/selftests/openat2/openat2_test.c  | 35 ++++++++++-
>  15 files changed, 150 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.26.2
>


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