From f938612dd97d481b8b5bf960c992ae577f081c17 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yann Droneaud Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 15:45:47 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] include/linux/file.h: remove get_unused_fd() macro Macro get_unused_fd() is used to allocate a file descriptor with default flags. Those default flags (0) don't enable close-on-exec. This can be seen as an unsafe default: in most case close-on-exec should be enabled to not leak file descriptor across exec(). It would be better to have a "safer" default set of flags, eg. O_CLOEXEC must be used to enable close-on-exec. Instead this patch removes get_unused_fd() so that out of tree modules won't be affect by a runtime behavor change which might introduce other kind of bugs: it's better to catch the change at build time, making it easier to fix. Removing the macro will also promote use of get_unused_fd_flags() (or anon_inode_getfd()) with flags provided by userspace. Or, if flags cannot be given by userspace, with flags set to O_CLOEXEC by default. Signed-off-by: Yann Droneaud Cc: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/file.h | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/file.h b/include/linux/file.h index 4d69123377a2..f87d30882a24 100644 --- a/include/linux/file.h +++ b/include/linux/file.h @@ -66,7 +66,6 @@ extern void set_close_on_exec(unsigned int fd, int flag); extern bool get_close_on_exec(unsigned int fd); extern void put_filp(struct file *); extern int get_unused_fd_flags(unsigned flags); -#define get_unused_fd() get_unused_fd_flags(0) extern void put_unused_fd(unsigned int fd); extern void fd_install(unsigned int fd, struct file *file);