On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 08:46:05PM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 8:42 PM Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 08:32:20PM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote: > > > From: Alexei Starovoitov <a...@kernel.org> > > > > > > Add bpf_sys_close() helper to be used by the syscall/loader program to > > > close > > > intermediate FDs and other cleanup. > > > > Conditional NAK. In a lot of contexts close_fd() is very much unsafe. > > In particular, anything that might call it between fdget() and fdput() > > is Right Fucking Out(tm). > > In which contexts can that thing be executed? > > user context only. > It's not for all of bpf _obviously_.
Let me restate the question: what call chains could lead to bpf_sys_close()?
