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From: Cory Snider <csnider@mirantis.com>
To: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Cory Snider <csnider@mirantis.com>
Subject: [nft PATCH] mnl: support RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit > FD_SETSIZE
Date: Thu,  9 Jul 2026 12:53:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260709165550.16259-1-csnider@mirantis.com> (raw)

Use poll(2) instead of select(2) to poll the netlink socket so processes
which raise their file descriptor soft limit beyond FD_SETSIZE can use
libnftables without risk of the process aborting when too many files are
open.

Signed-off-by: Cory Snider <csnider@mirantis.com>
---
The use of select(2) is preventing us from integrating libnftables into
Docker as its RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit is raised to the hard limit.
See also https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/52873.

 src/mnl.c | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/mnl.c b/src/mnl.c
index b9efd3cf..d9abbb72 100644
--- a/src/mnl.c
+++ b/src/mnl.c
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 #include <intervals.h>
 #include <net/if.h>
 #include <sys/socket.h>
+#include <poll.h>
 #include <arpa/inet.h>
 #include <fcntl.h>
 #include <errno.h>
@@ -406,14 +407,13 @@ int mnl_batch_talk(struct netlink_ctx *ctx, struct list_head *err_list,
 	const struct sockaddr_nl snl = {
 		.nl_family = AF_NETLINK
 	};
-	struct timeval tv = {
-		.tv_sec		= 0,
-		.tv_usec	= 0
-	};
 	struct iovec iov[iov_len];
 	struct msghdr msg = {};
 	unsigned int rcvbufsiz;
-	fd_set readfds;
+	struct pollfd pfd = {
+		.fd = fd,
+		.events = POLLIN,
+	};
 	static mnl_cb_t cb_ctl_array[NLMSG_MIN_TYPE] = {
 	        [NLMSG_ERROR] = mnl_batch_extack_cb,
 	};
@@ -440,14 +440,11 @@ int mnl_batch_talk(struct netlink_ctx *ctx, struct list_head *err_list,
 
 	/* receive and digest all the acknowledgments from the kernel. */
 	while (true) {
-		FD_ZERO(&readfds);
-		FD_SET(fd, &readfds);
-
-		ret = select(fd + 1, &readfds, NULL, NULL, &tv);
+		ret = poll(&pfd, 1, 0);
 		if (ret == -1)
 			return -1;
 
-		if (!FD_ISSET(fd, &readfds))
+		if (ret == 0)
 			break;
 
 		ret = mnl_socket_recvfrom(nl, rcv_buf, sizeof(rcv_buf));
@@ -2436,7 +2433,16 @@ int mnl_nft_event_listener(struct mnl_socket *nf_sock, unsigned int debug_mask,
 	int fd = mnl_socket_get_fd(nf_sock);
 	char buf[NFT_NLMSG_MAXSIZE];
 	int sigfd = get_signalfd();
-	fd_set readfds;
+	struct pollfd pfd[2] = {
+		{
+			.fd = fd,
+			.events = POLLIN,
+		},
+		{
+			.fd = sigfd,
+			.events = POLLIN,
+		},
+	};
 	int ret;
 
 	ret = mnl_set_rcvbuffer(nf_sock, bufsiz);
@@ -2445,19 +2451,14 @@ int mnl_nft_event_listener(struct mnl_socket *nf_sock, unsigned int debug_mask,
 			  NFTABLES_NLEVENT_BUFSIZ, bufsiz);
 
 	while (1) {
-		FD_ZERO(&readfds);
-		FD_SET(fd, &readfds);
-		if (sigfd != -1)
-			FD_SET(sigfd, &readfds);
-
-		ret = select(max(fd, sigfd) + 1, &readfds, NULL, NULL, NULL);
+		ret = poll(pfd, array_size(pfd), -1);
 		if (ret < 0)
 			return -1;
 
-		if (sigfd >= 0 && FD_ISSET(sigfd, &readfds))
+		if (sigfd >= 0 && (pfd[1].revents & POLLIN))
 			check_signalfd(sigfd);
 
-		if (FD_ISSET(fd, &readfds)) {
+		if (pfd[0].revents & POLLIN) {
 			ret = mnl_socket_recvfrom(nf_sock, buf, sizeof(buf));
 			if (ret < 0) {
 				if (errno == ENOBUFS) {
-- 
2.47.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-07-09 16:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-09 16:53 Cory Snider [this message]
2026-07-10 11:40 ` [nft PATCH] mnl: support RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit > FD_SETSIZE Pablo Neira Ayuso

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