Re: Please revert git commit 1ad3dcc0

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Bernd Schmidt <bernds_cb1@t-online.de> wrote:
>
> Linus, Andrew,
> 
> please revert 1ad3dcc0.  That was a patch to the binfmt_flat loader, 
> which was motivated by an LTP testcase which checks that execve returns 
> EMFILE when the file descriptor table is full.
> 
> The patch is buggy: the code now keeps file descriptors open for the 
> executable and its libraries, which has confused at least one 
> application.  It's also unnecessary, since there is no code that uses 
> the file descriptor, so the new EMFILE error return is totally artificial.
> 
> The reversion is
> Signed-off-by: Bernd Schmidt <bernd.schmidt@analog.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
> and I think Luke had no objections either.
> 

I don't get it.  The substance of the patch is

+	/* check file descriptor */
+	exec_fileno = get_unused_fd();
+	if (exec_fileno < 0) {
+		ret = -EMFILE;
+		goto err;
+	}
+	get_file(bprm->file);
+	fd_install(exec_fileno, bprm->file);

and that get_file() will be undone by exit().  Without this change we'll
forget to do file limit checking.

So.. please tell us much more about the problem.