[v2,07/24] file: Rename __fcheck_files to files_lookup_fd_raw

Commit Message

Eric W. Biederman Nov. 20, 2020, 11:14 p.m. UTC

The function fcheck despite it's comment is poorly named
as it has no callers that only check it's return value.
All of fcheck's callers use the returned file descriptor.
The same is true for fcheck_files and __fcheck_files.

A new less confusing name is needed.  In addition the names
of these functions are confusing as they do not report
the kind of locks that are needed to be held when these
functions are called making error prone to use them.

To remedy this I am making the base functio name lookup_fd
and will and prefixes and sufficies to indicate the rest
of the context.

Name the function (previously called __fcheck_files) that proceeds
from a struct files_struct, looks up the struct file of a file
descriptor, and requires it's callers to verify all of the appropriate
locks are held files_lookup_fd_raw.

The need for better names became apparent in the last round of
discussion of this set of changes[1].

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wj8BQbgJFLa+J0e=iT-1qpmCRTbPAJ8gd6MJQ=[e-mail]
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <[e-mail]>
---
 fs/file.c               | 2 +-
 include/linux/fdtable.h | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Patch

diff --git a/fs/file.c b/fs/file.c
index beae7c55c84c..b5591efb87f5 100644
--- a/fs/file.c
+++ b/fs/file.c
@@ -887,7 +887,7 @@  static unsigned long __fget_light(unsigned int fd, fmode_t mask)
 	struct file *file;
 
 	if (atomic_read(&files->count) == 1) {
-		file = __fcheck_files(files, fd);
+		file = files_lookup_fd_raw(files, fd);
 		if (!file || unlikely(file->f_mode & mask))
 			return 0;
 		return (unsigned long)file;
diff --git a/include/linux/fdtable.h b/include/linux/fdtable.h
index 7cc9885044d9..639933f37da9 100644
--- a/include/linux/fdtable.h
+++ b/include/linux/fdtable.h
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@  struct dentry;
 /*
  * The caller must ensure that fd table isn't shared or hold rcu or file lock
  */
-static inline struct file *__fcheck_files(struct files_struct *files, unsigned int fd)
+static inline struct file *files_lookup_fd_raw(struct files_struct *files, unsigned int fd)
 {
 	struct fdtable *fdt = rcu_dereference_raw(files->fdt);
 
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@  static inline struct file *fcheck_files(struct files_struct *files, unsigned int
 	RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN(!rcu_read_lock_held() &&
 			   !lockdep_is_held(&files->file_lock),
 			   "suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage");
-	return __fcheck_files(files, fd);
+	return files_lookup_fd_raw(files, fd);
 }
 
 /*