Bug 313681

Summary: O_ATOMICLOOKUP vs O_CLOEXEC(mainstream kernels) incompatibility
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Vasily Averin <vvs>
Component: kernelAssignee: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Martin Jenner <mjenner>
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Version: 5.1CC: dzickus, esandeen, khorenko
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Description Vasily Averin 2007-10-01 10:58:26 UTC
O_ATOMICLOOKUP in RHEL4 and RHEL5 kernels uses the same flag number that
O_CLOEXEC flag in latest mainstream kernels
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=f23513e8d96cf5e6cf8d2ff0cb5dd6bbc33995e4

Comment 1 Vasily Averin 2007-10-01 13:04:31 UTC
btw I've found dentry leak in do_lookup():

fs/namei.c::
static int do_lookup(struct nameidata *nd, struct qstr *name,
                     struct path *path, int atomic)
{
        struct vfsmount *mnt = nd->mnt;
        struct dentry *dentry = __d_lookup(nd->dentry, name);

        if (!dentry)
                goto need_lookup;
        if (dentry->d_op && dentry->d_op->d_revalidate)
                goto need_revalidate;
>>>>> VvS: dentry was taken but requires revalidation 

need_revalidate:
        if (atomic)
                return -EWOULDBLOCKIO;
>>>>> VvS: ... however if atomic is set, we forget to call dput before exit

Comment 2 Jerome Marchand 2007-10-05 07:38:36 UTC
Both problem come from the TUX patch. I wonder if someone actually use it.

Comment 3 Vasily Averin 2007-10-05 08:12:57 UTC
I do not know who uses TUX, but people will use O_CLOEXEC in new binaries. And
it  will lead to the troubles on filesystems where d_revalidate is implemented.

Also It would be great to look at 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=315051

Comment 4 Jerome Marchand 2007-10-05 09:01:24 UTC
Yes sure. I wondered if we should get rid of TUX in the future. If it's not
used, it's just a source of trouble.

Comment 5 Eric Sandeen 2007-10-30 16:47:06 UTC
just a note that bug #315051: open(O_ATOMICLOOKUP) leaks dentry covers the leak
problem for RHEL5.

Comment 6 Michal Schmidt 2007-12-05 13:58:52 UTC
I'll close it as a duplicate of bug 358661. It is a private bug for some reason,
but it says basically the same and it's already in POST status. It means a patch
has been proposed and it is considered for 5.2. The patch simply removes all
references to O_ATOMICLOOKUP from the kernel, because I found no users of it -
not even the userspace part of tux used it.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 358661 ***

Comment 7 Michal Schmidt 2008-01-09 17:51:53 UTC
Quoting Don Zickus's comment from bug 358661:

in 2.6.18-62.el5
You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5