Re: [RFC PATCH] io_uring: add support for IORING_OP_GETDENTS64

From: Al Viro
Date: Sat Jan 23 2021 - 21:03:27 EST


On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 03:50:55PM -0800, Andres Freund wrote:

> As there's only a shared lock, seems like both would end up with the
> same ctx->pos and end up updating f_pos to the same offset (assuming the
> same count).
>
> Am I missing something?

This:
f = fdget_pos(fd);
if (!f.file)
return -EBADF;
in the callers. Protection of struct file contents belongs to struct file,
*not* struct inode. Specifically, file->f_pos_lock. *IF* struct file
in question happens to be shared and the file is a regular or directory
(sockets don't need any exclusion on read(2), etc.)