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2020-12-04	fs, close_range: add flag CLOSE_RANGE_CLOEXEC	Giuseppe Scrivano	1	-0/+3
	When the flag CLOSE_RANGE_CLOEXEC is set, close_range doesn't immediately close the files but it sets the close-on-exec bit. It is useful for e.g. container runtimes that usually install a seccomp profile "as late as possible" before execv'ing the container process itself. The container runtime could either do: 1 2 - install_seccomp_profile(); - close_range(MIN_FD, MAX_INT, 0); - close_range(MIN_FD, MAX_INT, 0); - install_seccomp_profile(); - execve(...); - execve(...); Both alternative have some disadvantages. In the first variant the seccomp_profile cannot block the close_range syscall, as well as opendir/read/close/... for the fallback on older kernels. In the second variant, close_range() can be used only on the fds that are not going to be needed by the runtime anymore, and it must be potentially called multiple times to account for the different ranges that must be closed. Using close_range(..., ..., CLOSE_RANGE_CLOEXEC) solves these issues. The runtime is able to use the existing open fds, the seccomp profile can block close_range() and the syscalls used for its fallback. Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201118104746.873084-2-gscrivan@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
2020-06-17	close_range: add CLOSE_RANGE_UNSHARE	Christian Brauner	1	-0/+9
	One of the use-cases of close_range() is to drop file descriptors just before execve(). This would usually be expressed in the sequence: unshare(CLONE_FILES); close_range(3, ~0U); as pointed out by Linus it might be desirable to have this be a part of close_range() itself under a new flag CLOSE_RANGE_UNSHARE. This expands {dup,unshare)_fd() to take a max_fds argument that indicates the maximum number of file descriptors to copy from the old struct files. When the user requests that all file descriptors are supposed to be closed via close_range(min, max) then we can cap via unshare_fd(min) and hence don't need to do any of the heavy fput() work for everything above min. The patch makes it so that if CLOSE_RANGE_UNSHARE is requested and we do in fact currently share our file descriptor table we create a new private copy. We then close all fds in the requested range and finally after we're done we install the new fd table. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>