[v2,0/6] net/tap: Fix QEMU frozen issue when the maximum number of file descriptors is very large

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Bin Meng June 16, 2023, 3:27 p.m. UTC

Current codes using a brute-force traversal of all file descriptors
do not scale on a system where the maximum number of file descriptors
is set to a very large value (e.g.: in a Docker container of Manjaro
distribution it is set to 1073741816). QEMU just looks frozen during
start-up.

The close-on-exec flag (O_CLOEXEC) was introduced since Linux kernel
2.6.23, FreeBSD 8.3, OpenBSD 5.0, Solaris 11. While it's true QEMU
doesn't need to manually close the fds for child process as the proper
O_CLOEXEC flag should have been set properly on files with its own
codes, QEMU uses a huge number of 3rd party libraries and we don't
trust them to reliably be using O_CLOEXEC on everything they open.

Modern Linux and BSDs have the close_range() call we can use to do the
job, and on Linux we have one more way to walk through /proc/self/fd
to complete the task efficiently, which is what qemu_close_range()
does, a new API we add in utils/osdep.c.

Changes in v2:
- Change to use qemu_close_range() to close fds for child process efficiently
- v1 link: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/[e-mail]/

Bin Meng (4):
  tests/tcg/cris: Fix the coding style
  tests/tcg/cris: Correct the off-by-one error
  util/async-teardown: Fall back to close fds one by one
  utils/osdep: Introduce qemu_close_range()

Zhangjin Wu (2):
  util/async-teardown: Use qemu_close_range() to close fds
  net: tap: Use qemu_close_range() to close fds

 include/qemu/osdep.h                |  1 +
 net/tap.c                           | 23 ++++++------
 tests/tcg/cris/libc/check_openpf5.c | 57 ++++++++++++++---------------
 util/async-teardown.c               | 37 +------------------
 util/osdep.c                        | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 5 files changed, 87 insertions(+), 78 deletions(-)