linux_dsm_epyc7002/arch/powerpc
Linus Torvalds 4f30a60aa7 close-range-v5.9
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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()
2020-08-04 15:12:02 -07:00
..
boot powerpc/40x: Remove EP405 2020-05-28 23:24:35 +10:00
configs powerpc/configs: Add LIBNVDIMM to ppc64_defconfig 2020-06-02 20:59:08 +10:00
crypto crypto: lib/sha1 - remove unnecessary includes of linux/cryptohash.h 2020-05-08 15:32:17 +10:00
include Merge branch 'locking/header' 2020-07-29 16:14:21 +02:00
kernel close-range-v5.9 2020-08-04 15:12:02 -07:00
kexec powerpc/crash: Use NMI context for printk when starting to crash 2020-06-02 20:59:07 +10:00
kvm Remove uninitialized_var() macro for v5.9-rc1 2020-08-04 13:49:43 -07:00
lib maccess: rename probe_user_{read,write} to copy_{from,to}_user_nofault 2020-06-17 10:57:41 -07:00
math-emu treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152 2019-05-30 11:26:32 -07:00
mm powerpc/64s/hash: Fix hash_preload running with interrupts enabled 2020-07-27 17:02:09 +10:00
net treewide: Use sizeof_field() macro 2019-12-09 10:36:44 -08:00
oprofile maccess: rename probe_user_{read,write} to copy_{from,to}_user_nofault 2020-06-17 10:57:41 -07:00
perf powerpc/64s/hash: Fix hash_preload running with interrupts enabled 2020-07-27 17:02:09 +10:00
platforms Remove uninitialized_var() macro for v5.9-rc1 2020-08-04 13:49:43 -07:00
purgatory .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
sysdev maccess: rename probe_kernel_address to get_kernel_nofault 2020-06-18 11:14:40 -07:00
tools powerpc/head_check: Avoid broken pipe 2020-05-19 00:10:35 +10:00
xmon mm: don't include asm/pgtable.h if linux/mm.h is already included 2020-06-09 09:39:13 -07:00
Kbuild powerpc/kexec: Move kexec files into a dedicated subdir. 2019-11-21 15:41:34 +11:00
Kconfig arch: remove HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS 2020-07-04 23:41:37 +02:00
Kconfig.debug powerpc: Remove Xilinx PPC405/PPC440 support 2020-05-28 23:24:34 +10:00
Makefile powerpc: Suppress .eh_frame generation 2020-04-01 14:30:51 +11:00
Makefile.postlink powerpc: Do not consider weak unresolved symbol relocations as bad 2020-01-31 20:17:22 +11:00