Re: [PATCH v3 5/9] rust: file: add `FileDescriptorReservation`

[Benno Lossin]

On 1/18/24 15:36, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> From: Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 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@xxxxxxxxx>
> Co-developed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

I have one nit below, with that fixed:

Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@xxxxxxxxx>

> +impl Drop for FileDescriptorReservation {
> +    fn drop(&mut self) {
> +        // SAFETY: `self.fd` was previously returned by `get_unused_fd_flags`. We have not yet used

I would again suggest mentioning the type invariant of `Self`.

-- 
Cheers,
Benno

> +        // the fd, so it is still valid, and `current` still refers to the same task, as this type
> +        // cannot be moved across task boundaries.
> +        unsafe { bindings::put_unused_fd(self.fd) };
> +    }
> +}
> +
>  /// Represents the `EBADF` error code.
>  ///
>  /// Used for methods that can only fail with `EBADF`.
> --
> 2.43.0.381.gb435a96ce8-goog
>