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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>,
	kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 1/2] anon-inodes: Remove fd_install() from anon_inode_getfd()
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 15:14:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080306151430.GD27894@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <adak5kqyzv1.fsf@cisco.com>

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:16:02AM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
> The anonymous inodes interface anon_inode_getfd() calls fd_install()
> for the newly created fd, which does not work for some use cases where
> the caller must do futher initialization before exposing the file to
> userspace.  This is also probably not the safest interface, since the
> caller must be sure that it is OK if userspace closes the fd before
> anon_inode_getfd() even returns.

IMO that's a bad idea - majority of callers only care about fd and burdening
them with fd_install() is simply wrong.  Separate helper function...

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-06 15:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-25 19:10 [PATCH] uverbs: kill last remaining modular get_empty_filp user Christoph Hellwig
2008-02-27 19:01 ` Roland Dreier
2008-02-27 19:16 ` [PATCH/RFC 1/2] anon-inodes: Remove fd_install() from anon_inode_getfd() Roland Dreier
2008-02-27 19:16   ` Roland Dreier
2008-02-27 19:18   ` [PATCH 2/2] IB/uverbs: Use anonymous inodes instead of private filesystem Roland Dreier
2008-02-27 19:20   ` [PATCH/RFC 1/2] anon-inodes: Remove fd_install() from anon_inode_getfd() Avi Kivity
2008-02-27 19:41   ` Davide Libenzi
2008-02-27 19:41     ` Davide Libenzi
2008-02-27 20:14     ` Roland Dreier
2008-02-27 20:30       ` Davide Libenzi
2008-02-27 21:05         ` Roland Dreier
2008-02-27 21:05           ` Roland Dreier
2008-02-27 23:42           ` Roland Dreier
2008-02-27 23:42             ` Roland Dreier
2008-02-28  7:52             ` Avi Kivity
2008-02-28 20:04             ` Davide Libenzi
2008-02-28 20:24               ` Roland Dreier
2008-02-28 20:52                 ` Davide Libenzi
2008-03-05  9:32                   ` [kvm-devel] " Avi Kivity
2008-03-05  9:32                     ` Avi Kivity
2008-03-06 15:14             ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-03-06 15:14               ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-03-09  2:45               ` Roland Dreier
2008-03-09  2:45                 ` Roland Dreier
2008-03-17 10:40                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-03-17 10:40                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-03-17 10:48                   ` Avi Kivity
2008-03-09  2:46               ` Roland Dreier
2008-03-09  2:46                 ` Roland Dreier
2008-03-06 15:14   ` Al Viro [this message]

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