Re: [PATCH bpf-next] libbpf: call dup2() syscall directly

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On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 1:18 PM Song Liu <song@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 1:02 PM Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > We've ran into issues with using dup2() API in production setting, where
> > libbpf is linked into large production environment and ends up calling
> > uninteded custom implementations of dup2(). These custom implementations
>
> typo: unintended

oops, but probably doesn't warrant respinning

>
> > don't provide atomic FD replacement guarantees of dup2() syscall,
> > leading to subtle and hard to debug issues.
> >
> > To prevent this in the future and guarantee that no libc implementation
> > will do their own custom non-atomic dup2() implementation, call dup2()
> > syscall directly with syscall(SYS_dup2).
> >
> > Note that some architectures don't seem to provide dup2 and have dup3
> > instead. Try to detect and pick best syscall.
>
> I wonder whether we can just always use dup3().

dup3() (according to my git foo) was added in 4.17, which is more
modern than some other usable BPF, so I don't want to just randomly
bump the minimal supported (by libbpf) kernel for something like this.

>
> > Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Song Liu <song@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> [...]





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