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    include/linux/file.h: remove get_unused_fd() macro · f938612d
    Yann Droneaud authored
    
    
    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: default avatarYann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com>
    Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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