From 11f3f500ec8a75c96087f3bed87aa2b1c5de7498 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Christie Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 16:03:27 -0600 Subject: fork: add kernel_clone_args flag to not dup/clone files Each vhost device gets a thread that is used to perform IO and management operations. Instead of a thread that is accessing a device, the thread is part of the device, so when it creates a thread using a helper based on copy_process we can't dup or clone the parent's files/FDS because it would do an extra increment on ourself. Later, when we do: Qemu process exits: do_exit -> exit_files -> put_files_struct -> close_files we would leak the device's resources because of that extra refcount on the fd or file_struct. This patch adds a no_files option so these worker threads can prevent taking an extra refcount on themselves. Signed-off-by: Mike Christie Acked-by: Christian Brauner Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) --- include/linux/sched/task.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/sched/task.h b/include/linux/sched/task.h index 2950e83d5382..4f816048794f 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched/task.h +++ b/include/linux/sched/task.h @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ struct kernel_clone_args { u32 kthread:1; u32 io_thread:1; u32 user_worker:1; + u32 no_files:1; unsigned long stack; unsigned long stack_size; unsigned long tls; -- cgit v1.2.3