Roland Dreier wrote:
The anonymous inodes interface anon_inode_getfd() calls fd_install() for the newly created fd, which does not work for some use cases where the caller must do futher initialization before exposing the file to userspace. This is also probably not the safest interface, since the caller must be sure that it is OK if userspace closes the fd before anon_inode_getfd() even returns. Therefore, change the anonymous inodes interface so that the caller is responsible for calling fd_install(), and change the name of the function from anon_inode_getfd() to anon_inode_allocfd() so that any code using the old interface breaks at compilation rather than failing in a strange way. Fix up all the in-kernel users to use the new interface.
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