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file: add alloc_file_pseudo_noaccount() 

When we open block devices as files we want to make sure to not charge
them against the open file limit of the caller as that can cause
spurious failures.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240123-vfs-bdev-file-v2-1-adbd023e19cc@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Christian Brauner 2024-02-08 19:10:45 +01:00
parent 0873add0e0
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fs/file_table.c
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@ -357,6 +357,30 @@ struct file *alloc_file_pseudo(struct inode *inode, struct vfsmount *mnt,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(alloc_file_pseudo);
struct file *alloc_file_pseudo_noaccount(struct inode *inode,
struct vfsmount *mnt, const char *name,
int flags,
const struct file_operations *fops)
{
int ret;
struct path path;
struct file *file;
ret = alloc_path_pseudo(name, inode, mnt, &path);
if (ret)
return ERR_PTR(ret);
file = alloc_empty_file_noaccount(flags, current_cred());
if (IS_ERR(file)) {
ihold(inode);
path_put(&path);
return file;
}
file_init_path(file, &path, fops);
return file;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(alloc_file_pseudo_noaccount);
struct file *alloc_file_clone(struct file *base, int flags,
const struct file_operations *fops)
{

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include/linux/file.h
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@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ struct inode;
struct path;
extern struct file *alloc_file_pseudo(struct inode *, struct vfsmount *,
const char *, int flags, const struct file_operations *);
extern struct file *alloc_file_pseudo_noaccount(struct inode *, struct vfsmount *,
const char *, int flags, const struct file_operations *);
extern struct file *alloc_file_clone(struct file *, int flags,
const struct file_operations *);