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From: Trevor Gross <tmgross@umich.edu>
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2024 01:41:27 -0600
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 6/9] rust: file: add `FileDescriptorReservation`
To: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>, Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>, 
	Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@gmail.com>, Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>, Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>, 
	=?UTF-8?Q?Bj=C3=B6rn_Roy_Baron?= <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com>, 
	Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me>, Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@samsung.com>, 
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, 
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	Martin Rodriguez Reboredo <yakoyoku@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Feb 9, 2024 at 5:21=E2=80=AFAM Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> wr=
ote:
>
> From: Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@gmail.com>
>
> Allow for the creation of a file descriptor in two steps: first, we
> reserve a slot for it, then we commit or drop the reservation. The first
> step may fail (e.g., the current process ran out of available slots),
> but commit and drop never fail (and are mutually exclusive).
>
> This is needed by Rust Binder when fds are sent from one process to
> another. It has to be a two-step process to properly handle the case
> where multiple fds are sent: The operation must fail or succeed
> atomically, which we achieve by first reserving the fds we need, and
> only installing the files once we have reserved enough fds to send the
> files.
>
> Fd reservations assume that the value of `current` does not change
> between the call to get_unused_fd_flags and the call to fd_install (or
> put_unused_fd). By not implementing the Send trait, this abstraction
> ensures that the `FileDescriptorReservation` cannot be moved into a
> different process.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@gmail.com>
> Co-developed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
> Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me>
> Reviewed-by: Martin Rodriguez Reboredo <yakoyoku@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>

Reviewed-by: Trevor Gross <tmgross@umich.edu>