On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 05:04:15PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> When discussing[1] exec and posix file locks it was realized that none
> of the callers of get_files_struct fundamentally needed to call
> get_files_struct, and that by switching them to helper functions
> instead it will both simplify their code and remove unnecessary
> increments of files_struct.count.  Those unnecessary increments can
> result in exec unnecessarily unsharing files_struct which breaking
> posix locks, and it can result in fget_light having to fallback to
> fget reducing system performance.
> 
> Using fcheck_task instead of get_files_struct clarifies tid_fd_mode by
> removing a step.
> 
> [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
> Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
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Acked-by: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>

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