[PATCH v2 0/2] fs, close_range: add flag CLOSE_RANGE_CLOEXEC

Christian Brauner christian.brauner at ubuntu.com
Wed Nov 18 10:02:25 UTC 2020


On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 05:47:53PM +0100, Giuseppe Scrivano wrote:
> Hi Christian,
> 
> Christian Brauner <christian.brauner at ubuntu.com> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 12:26:52PM +0200, Giuseppe Scrivano wrote:
> >> When the new flag is used, close_range will set the close-on-exec bit
> >> for the file descriptors instead of close()-ing them.
> >> 
> >> It is useful for e.g. container runtimes that want to minimize the
> >> number of syscalls used after a seccomp profile is installed but want
> >> to keep some fds open until the container process is executed.
> >> 
> >> v1->v2:
> >> * move close_range(..., CLOSE_RANGE_CLOEXEC) implementation to a separate function.
> >> * use bitmap_set() to set the close-on-exec bits in the bitmap.
> >> * add test with rlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE) in place.
> >> * use "cur_max" that is already used by close_range(..., 0).
> >
> > I'm picking this up for some testing, thanks
> > Christian
> 
> thanks!  I've addressed the comments you had for v2 and pushed them
> here[1] but I've not sent yet v3 as I was waiting for a feedback from Al
> whether using bitmap_set() is fine.

Send it please.
Christian


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