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From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: WangYuli <wangyuli@uniontech.com>
Cc: brauner@kernel.org, jack@suse.cz, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	tglx@linutronix.de, jlayton@kernel.org, frederic@kernel.org,
	chenlinxuan@uniontech.com, xu.xin16@zte.com.cn,
	adrian.ratiu@collabora.com, lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com,
	mingo@kernel.org, felix.moessbauer@siemens.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	zhanjun@uniontech.com, niecheng1@uniontech.com,
	guanwentao@uniontech.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc: Show the mountid associated with exe
Date: Sun, 11 May 2025 15:22:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250511142237.GA2023217@ZenIV> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3885DACAB5D311F7+20250511114243.215132-1-wangyuli@uniontech.com>

On Sun, May 11, 2025 at 07:42:43PM +0800, WangYuli wrote:

> +static int proc_exe_mntid(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
> +			struct pid *pid, struct task_struct *task)
> +{
> +	struct file *exe_file;
> +	struct path exe_path;
> +
> +	exe_file = get_task_exe_file(task);
> +
> +	if (exe_file) {
> +		exe_path = exe_file->f_path;
> +		path_get(&exe_file->f_path);
> +
> +		seq_printf(m, "%i\n", real_mount(exe_path.mnt)->mnt_id);
> +
> +		path_put(&exe_file->f_path);

Excuse me, just what is that path_get/path_put for?  If you have
an opened file, you do have its ->f_path pinned and unchanging.
Otherwise this call of path_get() would've itself been unsafe...

And I still wonder about the rationale, TBH...

  reply	other threads:[~2025-05-11 14:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-05-11 11:42 [PATCH] proc: Show the mountid associated with exe WangYuli
2025-05-11 14:22 ` Al Viro [this message]
2025-05-11 16:19   ` Chen Linxuan
2025-05-11 17:41     ` Al Viro
2025-05-12  9:11 ` Christian Brauner

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