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authorEric W. Biederman2020-11-20 17:14:41 -0600
committerEric W. Biederman2020-12-10 12:42:59 -0600
commitfa67bf885e5211c7dce9514ef2877212c0a5e09e (patch)
tree8390573b7ab598a4ddb548f9d2ede8f3ec7bbd2f /fs/file.c
parent9fe83c43e71cdb8e5b9520bcb98706a2b3c680c8 (diff)
file: Remove get_files_struct
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. Now that get_files_struct has no more users and can not cause the problems for posix file locking and fget_light remove get_files_struct so that it does not gain any new users. [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180915160423.GA31461@redhat.com Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> v1: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200817220425.9389-13-ebiederm@xmission.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201120231441.29911-24-ebiederm@xmission.com Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/file.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/file.c13
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/fs/file.c b/fs/file.c
index 947ac6d5602f..412033d8cfdf 100644
--- a/fs/file.c
+++ b/fs/file.c
@@ -411,19 +411,6 @@ static struct fdtable *close_files(struct files_struct * files)
return fdt;
}
-struct files_struct *get_files_struct(struct task_struct *task)
-{
- struct files_struct *files;
-
- task_lock(task);
- files = task->files;
- if (files)
- atomic_inc(&files->count);
- task_unlock(task);
-
- return files;
-}
-
void put_files_struct(struct files_struct *files)
{
if (atomic_dec_and_test(&files->count)) {