Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:
On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 4:36 PM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
Would the best endgame shape for this function be to open with
O_NOATIME (and retry without), and then add CLOEXEC with fcntl(2)
but ignoring an error from it, I guess? That would be the closest
to what we historically had, I would think.
I think that's the best model.
OK, so perhaps like this.
-- >8 --
Subject: git_open(): untangle possible NOATIME and CLOEXEC interactions
The way we structured the fallback-retry for opening with O_NOATIME
and O_CLOEXEC meant that if we failed due to lack of support to open
the file with O_NOATIME option (i.e. EINVAL), we would still try to
drop O_CLOEXEC first and retry, and then drop O_NOATIME. A platform
on which O_NOATIME is defined in the header without support from the
kernel wouldn't have a chance to open with O_CLOEXEC option due to
this code structure.
Arguably, O_CLOEXEC is more important than O_NOATIME, as the latter
is mostly about performance, while the former can affect correctness.
Let's revert the recent changes to the way git_open() attempts to
open a file with O_NOATIME and retries without to the original
sequence, and then use a separate fcntl(fd, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) on
the resulting file descriptor. The helper to do the latter can be
usable in the codepath in ce_compare_data() that was recently added
to open a file descriptor with O_CLOEXEC, so let's refactor that
codepath with the helper while we are at it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
---
git-compat-util.h | 5 +++--
read-cache.c | 12 ++++--------
sha1_file.c | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
3 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h
index 43718dabae..a751630db5 100644
--- a/git-compat-util.h
+++ b/git-compat-util.h
@@ -679,9 +679,10 @@ char *gitstrdup(const char *s);
#define getpagesize() sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE)
#endif
-#ifndef O_CLOEXEC
-#define O_CLOEXEC 0
+#ifndef FD_CLOEXEC
+#define FD_CLOEXEC 0
#endif
+extern int git_set_cloexec(int);
#ifdef FREAD_READS_DIRECTORIES
#ifdef fopen
diff --git a/read-cache.c b/read-cache.c
index db5d910642..fb91514885 100644
--- a/read-cache.c
+++ b/read-cache.c
@@ -156,17 +156,13 @@ void fill_stat_cache_info(struct cache_entry *ce, struct stat *st)
static int ce_compare_data(const struct cache_entry *ce, struct stat *st)
{
int match = -1;
- static int cloexec = O_CLOEXEC;
- int fd = open(ce->name, O_RDONLY | cloexec);
-
- if ((cloexec & O_CLOEXEC) && fd < 0 && errno == EINVAL) {
- /* Try again w/o O_CLOEXEC: the kernel might not support it */
- cloexec &= ~O_CLOEXEC;
- fd = open(ce->name, O_RDONLY | cloexec);
- }
+ int fd = open(ce->name, O_RDONLY);
if (fd >= 0) {
unsigned char sha1[20];
+
+ /* do not let child processes to hold onto the open fd */
+ git_set_cloexec(fd);
if (!index_fd(sha1, fd, st, OBJ_BLOB, ce->name, 0))
match = hashcmp(sha1, ce->oid.hash);
/* index_fd() closed the file descriptor already */diff --git a/sha1_file.c b/sha1_file.c
index 09045df1dc..41383a6c20 100644
--- a/sha1_file.c
+++ b/sha1_file.c
@@ -1559,31 +1559,42 @@ int check_sha1_signature(const unsigned char *sha1, void *map,
return hashcmp(sha1, real_sha1) ? -1 : 0;
}
-int git_open(const char *name)
+int git_set_cloexec(int fd)
{
- static int sha1_file_open_flag = O_NOATIME | O_CLOEXEC;
+ static int cloexec = FD_CLOEXEC;
- for (;;) {
- int fd;
+ if (cloexec) {
+ if (fcntl(fd, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) < 0)
+ cloexec = 0;
+ /*
+ * We might want to diagnose and complain upon seeing
+ * an error from this call, but let's keep the same
+ * behaviour as before for now.
+ */
+ }
+ return 0;
+}
- errno = 0;
- fd = open(name, O_RDONLY | sha1_file_open_flag);
- if (fd >= 0)
- return fd;
+int git_open(const char *name)
+{
+ static int noatime = O_NOATIME;
+ int fd;
- /* Try again w/o O_CLOEXEC: the kernel might not support it */
- if ((sha1_file_open_flag & O_CLOEXEC) && errno == EINVAL) {
- sha1_file_open_flag &= ~O_CLOEXEC;
- continue;
- }
+ errno = 0;
+ fd = open(name, O_RDONLY | noatime);
- /* Might the failure be due to O_NOATIME? */
- if (errno != ENOENT && (sha1_file_open_flag & O_NOATIME)) {
- sha1_file_open_flag &= ~O_NOATIME;
- continue;
- }
- return -1;
+ /* Might the failure be due to O_NOATIME? */
+ if ((noatime & O_NOATIME) && errno != ENOENT) {
+ noatime = 0;
+ fd = open(name, O_RDONLY);
}
+
+ if (fd < 0)
+ return fd;
+
+ /* do not let child processes to hold onto the open fd */
+ git_set_cloexec(fd);
+ return fd;
}
static int stat_sha1_file(const unsigned char *sha1, struct stat *st)