How to get list of all files open in the system
From: Greg KH <hidden>
Date: 2015-11-15 01:03:44
From: Greg KH <hidden>
Date: 2015-11-15 01:03:44
On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 08:13:26PM +0200, Sergei Starovoi wrote:
Hi, all. I'm writing a kernel module. One of its tasks requires getting full paths of all open files in the system.
That's a very odd request, why would a kernel module ever care about such a thing? And in what namespace do these files need to be in?
My first solution essentially looks like: for_each_process_thread(process, thread) iterate_fd(files, 0, my_callback, NULL); my_callback calls d_path for passed file->f_path to get its full path. But this solution has obvious problems: A. It will skip files which were opened directly from kernel code (using filp_open for example);
You shouldn't care about those, but then again, you aren't saying why you care about open files, so I can't judge that. thanks, greg k-h