Re: [PATCH 5/5] file: Modify struct fown_struct to contain a tref

[ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)]

Suleiman Souhlal <ssouhlal@FreeBSD.org> writes:

> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
>> @@ -317,7 +326,9 @@ static long do_fcntl(int fd, unsigned in
>>  		 * current syscall conventions, the only way
>>  		 * to fix this will be in libc.
>>  		 */
>> -		err = filp->f_owner.pid;
>> +		err = 0;
>> +		if (filp->f_owner.tref->task)
>> +			err = filp->f_owner.pid;
>
> Probably not very important, but why don't you use
> filp->f_owner.tref->task->pid? This way you could completely get rid of the pid
> field in fown_struct.

Two reasons.
One because task->pid is not the proper value for a thread group.
And because task might be NULL.

Basically using filp->f_owner.tref->task->pid as my source is a much
more complicated expression.

Eric
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