Currently when passing a closed file descriptor to fcntl(fd, F_DUPFD_QUERY, fd_dup) the order matters: fd = open("/dev/null"); fd_dup = dup(fd); When we now close one of the file descriptors we get: (1) fcntl(fd, fd_dup) // -EBADF (2) fcntl(fd_dup, fd) // 0 aka not equal depending on which file descriptor is passed first. That's not a huge deal but it gives the api I slightly weird feel. Make it so that the order doesn't matter by requiring that both file descriptors are valid: (1') fcntl(fd, fd_dup) // -EBADF (2') fcntl(fd_dup, fd) // -EBADF Fixes: c62b758bae6a ("fcntl: add F_DUPFD_QUERY fcntl()") Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Lennart Poettering <lennart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/fcntl.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/fcntl.c b/fs/fcntl.c index 22dd9dcce7ec..3d89de31066a 100644 --- a/fs/fcntl.c +++ b/fs/fcntl.c @@ -397,6 +397,9 @@ static long f_dupfd_query(int fd, struct file *filp) { CLASS(fd_raw, f)(fd); + if (fd_empty(f)) + return -EBADF; + /* * We can do the 'fdput()' immediately, as the only thing that * matters is the pointer value which isn't changed by the fdput. -- 2.45.2