On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 07:46:25AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 04:05:34AM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 09:04:22PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > Don't rely on the implicit set_fs(KERNEL_DS) for ksys_open to work, but > > > instead open a struct file for /dev/console and then install it as FD > > > 0/1/2 manually. > > > > I really hate that one. Every time we exposed the internal details to > > the fucking early init code, we paid for that afterwards. And this > > goes over the top wrt the level of details being exposed. > > > > _IF_ you want to keep that thing, move it to fs/file.c, with dire comment > > re that being very special shite for init and likely cause of subsequent > > trouble whenever anything gets changed, a gnat farts somewhere, etc. > > Err, while I'm all for keeping internals internal, fd_install and > get_unused_fd_flags are exported routines with tons of users of this > pattern all over. get_file_rcu_many()? All over the place? Besides, that's _not_ the normal pattern for get_unused_fd() - there's a very special reason we don't expect an error from it here.
