On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Xie, Huawei <huawei.xie at intel.com> wrote:
> On 3/23/2015 10:37 PM, Pavel Boldin wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 4:21 PM, Xie, Huawei <huawei.xie at intel.com<mailto: > huawei.xie at intel.com>> wrote: > On 3/23/2015 8:54 PM, Pavel Boldin wrote: > > Due to increased `struct file's reference counter subsequent call > > to `filp_close' does not free the `struct file'. Prepend `fput' call > > to decrease the reference counter. > > > > Signed-off-by: Pavel Boldin <pboldin at mirantis.com<mailto: > pboldin at mirantis.com>> > > --- > > lib/librte_vhost/eventfd_link/eventfd_link.c | 1 + > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > > > diff --git a/lib/librte_vhost/eventfd_link/eventfd_link.c > b/lib/librte_vhost/eventfd_link/eventfd_link.c > > index 7755dd6..62c45c8 100644 > > --- a/lib/librte_vhost/eventfd_link/eventfd_link.c > > +++ b/lib/librte_vhost/eventfd_link/eventfd_link.c > > @@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ eventfd_link_ioctl(struct file *f, unsigned int > ioctl, unsigned long arg) > > * Release the existing eventfd in the source process > > */ > > spin_lock(&files->file_lock); > > + fput(file); > Could we just call atomic_long_dec here? > > We can but I don't like breaking encapsulation (which is broken anyway by > the code). So, there is a special method and we should use it in my opinion. > it is increased by atomic_long_inc_not_zero so why don't we use the > symmetric function? > The code with `atomic_long_inc_not_zero' call is a copy-paste of the `fget' function. If we want to make it clear we should make a separate function and name it so: `fget_from_files'. Second thing is: another thread of the same processor can call the `sys_close' on the `fd' and this will dereference counter so `fput' will correctly free the `struct file'. Using `atomic_long_dec' will leak a `struct file' and print a KERN_ERR message by `filp_close'. So, the common thing is to use appropriate functions and don't reinvent the wheel. Pavel > > > Pavel > > > filp_close(file, files); > > fdt = files_fdtable(files); > > fdt->fd[eventfd_copy.source_fd] = NULL; > > > >
