Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] exec: do unshare_files after de_thread

[Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>]

On 09/16, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > IOW. Lets ignore do_close_on_exec(), lets ignore the fact that unshare_fd()
> > can fail and thus it makes sense to call it before point-of-no-return.
> >
> > Any other reason why we can't simply call unshare_files() at the end of
> > __do_execve_file() on success?
>
> The reason we call we call unshare_files is in case the files are shared
> with another process.  AKA old style linux threads, or someone being
> clever.  In that case we need a private copy of files for close on exec
> because we should not close the files of the other process that has not
> called exec.

This is clear,

> The only reason for calling unshare_files before the point of no return
> is so that we can get a good error message to the calling process if
> unshare_files fails.

OK, so you too think there are no other reasons.

> AKA it would be reasonable to move unshare_files to just above
> do_close_on_exec in flush_old_exec.  We could further make the
> unshare_files not return displaced and just drop it.

Yes, this is exactly what I had in mind.

Oleg.