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authorAlex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>2013-08-22 10:33:41 -0600
committerAlex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>2013-08-22 10:33:41 -0600
commit5d042fbdbb2df46c9185942a0c6fe280906ba70c (patch)
tree87483859f6ac5cdd04209e6e0b16ec131766232c /drivers/vfio
parenta5d550703d2c2f0f9fc5fd4a249efa8984dc9353 (diff)
downloadlinux-5d042fbdbb2df46c9185942a0c6fe280906ba70c.tar.bz2
vfio: Add O_CLOEXEC flag to vfio device fd
Add the default O_CLOEXEC flag for device file descriptors. This is generally considered a safer option as it allows the user a race free option to decide whether file descriptors are inherited across exec, with the default avoiding file descriptor leaks. Reported-by: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/vfio')
-rw-r--r--drivers/vfio/vfio.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio.c
index 75c16cc5921a..1eab4ace0671 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/vfio.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio.c
@@ -1109,7 +1109,7 @@ static int vfio_group_get_device_fd(struct vfio_group *group, char *buf)
* We can't use anon_inode_getfd() because we need to modify
* the f_mode flags directly to allow more than just ioctls
*/
- ret = get_unused_fd_flags(0);
+ ret = get_unused_fd_flags(O_CLOEXEC);
if (ret < 0) {
device->ops->release(device->device_data);
break;