Re: [PATCH] fcntl: make F_GETOWN(EX) return 0 on dead owner task

Cyrill Gorcunov
2021-02-08T07:41:02Z

On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 03:41:56PM +0300, Pavel Tikhomirov wrote:
> Currently there is no way to differentiate the file with alive owner
> from the file with dead owner but pid of the owner reused. That's why
> CRIU can't actually know if it needs to restore file owner or not,
> because if it restores owner but actual owner was dead, this can
> introduce unexpected signals to the "false"-owner (which reused the
> pid).
>
> Let's change the api, so that F_GETOWN(EX) returns 0 in case actual
> owner is dead already.
>
> Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
> Cc: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>

I can't imagine a scenario where we could break some backward
compatibility with this change, so

Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>