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Re: [PATCH] net: tap: Drop the close of fds for child process
From: |
Bin Meng |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] net: tap: Drop the close of fds for child process |
Date: |
Thu, 6 Apr 2023 20:44:53 +0800 |
On Thu, Apr 6, 2023 at 8:34 PM Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On 6/4/23 13:20, Bin Meng wrote:
> > Current codes using a brute-force traversal of all file descriptors
> > do not scale on a system where the maximum number of file descriptors
> > are set to a very large value (e.g.: in a Docker container of Manjaro
> > distribution it is set to 1073741816). QEMU just looks freezed during
> > start-up.
> >
> > The close-on-exec flag was introduced since a faily old Linux kernel
> > (2.6.23). With recent newer kernels that QEMU supports, we don't need
> > to manually close the fds for child process as the proper O_CLOEXEC
> > flag should have been set properly on files that we don't want child
> > process to see.
>
> But this file is common to all POSIX implementations, not only Linux.
Yes, this file is used for Linux, BSD and Solaris.
I checked that O_CLOEXEC is available on Linux (2.6.23), FreeBSD
(8.3), OpenBSD 5.0, Solaris 11. This flag is part of POSIX.1-2008.
Question is do we still need to support OSes that are older and do not
have this support?
>
> > Reported-by: Zhangjin Wu <falcon@tinylab.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng@tinylab.org>
> > ---
> >
> > net/tap.c | 14 --------------
> > 1 file changed, 14 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/net/tap.c b/net/tap.c
> > index 1bf085d422..49e1915484 100644
> > --- a/net/tap.c
> > +++ b/net/tap.c
> > @@ -446,13 +446,6 @@ static void launch_script(const char *setup_script,
> > const char *ifname,
> > return;
> > }
> > if (pid == 0) {
>
> Maybe guard with #ifndef O_CLOEXEC
>
> > - int open_max = sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX), i;
> > -
> > - for (i = 3; i < open_max; i++) {
> > - if (i != fd) {
> > - close(i);
> > - }
> > - }
>
> or add qemu_close_cloexec() in util/osdep.c similar to qemu_open_cloexec()?
>
> > parg = args;
> > *parg++ = (char *)setup_script;
> > *parg++ = (char *)ifname;
> > @@ -536,17 +529,10 @@ static int net_bridge_run_helper(const char *helper,
> > const char *bridge,
> > return -1;
> > }
> > if (pid == 0) {
> > - int open_max = sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX), i;
> > char *fd_buf = NULL;
> > char *br_buf = NULL;
> > char *helper_cmd = NULL;
> >
> > - for (i = 3; i < open_max; i++) {
> > - if (i != sv[1]) {
> > - close(i);
> > - }
> > - }
> > -
> > fd_buf = g_strdup_printf("%s%d", "--fd=", sv[1]);
> >
> > if (strrchr(helper, ' ') || strrchr(helper, '\t')) {
Regards,
Bin