[PATCH V2 4/9] fork: add option to not clone or dup files
From: Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com>
Date: 2021-09-21 21:53:29
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Subsystem:
exec & binfmt api, elf, memory management - core, scheduler, the rest · Maintainers:
Kees Cook, Andrew Morton, David Hildenbrand, Ingo Molnar, Peter Zijlstra, Juri Lelli, Vincent Guittot, Linus Torvalds
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>
---
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 cf7c9fffc839..e165cc67fd3c 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 4b0e8257993b..98264cf1d6a6 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c@@ -1532,7 +1532,8 @@ 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;
@@ -1544,6 +1545,11 @@ 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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