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authorYann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com>2014-12-10 15:45:47 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-12-10 17:41:10 -0800
commitf938612dd97d481b8b5bf960c992ae577f081c17 (patch)
treeba1e620455a87fb25502ee3b8be7193c1ed9e5a9 /include/linux/file.h
parent8d10a035829cacbd84bf35610870c35e566d1242 (diff)
include/linux/file.h: remove get_unused_fd() macro
Macro get_unused_fd() is used to allocate a file descriptor with default flags. Those default flags (0) don't enable close-on-exec. This can be seen as an unsafe default: in most case close-on-exec should be enabled to not leak file descriptor across exec(). It would be better to have a "safer" default set of flags, eg. O_CLOEXEC must be used to enable close-on-exec. Instead this patch removes get_unused_fd() so that out of tree modules won't be affect by a runtime behavor change which might introduce other kind of bugs: it's better to catch the change at build time, making it easier to fix. Removing the macro will also promote use of get_unused_fd_flags() (or anon_inode_getfd()) with flags provided by userspace. Or, if flags cannot be given by userspace, with flags set to O_CLOEXEC by default. Signed-off-by: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/file.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/file.h1
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/file.h b/include/linux/file.h
index 4d69123377a2..f87d30882a24 100644
--- a/include/linux/file.h
+++ b/include/linux/file.h
@@ -66,7 +66,6 @@ extern void set_close_on_exec(unsigned int fd, int flag);
extern bool get_close_on_exec(unsigned int fd);
extern void put_filp(struct file *);
extern int get_unused_fd_flags(unsigned flags);
-#define get_unused_fd() get_unused_fd_flags(0)
extern void put_unused_fd(unsigned int fd);
extern void fd_install(unsigned int fd, struct file *file);