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Re: [cgit PATCH] Close file descriptor on error in readfile()

From
Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Date
Nov 7, 2009, 02:22 UTC
Message-ID
<f488382f0911061822y7d0b52d5sa5cf4b199554312f@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Rys Sommefeldt <rys@pixeltards.com> wrote:
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> Hi Lars,
>
> My colleagues and I use cgit at work, and we've found that the scanning
> process can consume all available fds pretty quickly on our cgit hosts,
> because it doesn't close them properly on error.  We have a few thousand
> active repositories for cgit to scan, and we noticed it dying after a
> certain amount.
>
> I've attached a patch which should apply against current master, although I
> developed it a while back on an older 0.8 version (sorry it took so long to
> subscribe and send the patch in).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rys Sommefeldt
> ---
>
> From 6446cf839d2104cd40848e439bf97cd7fd6ccfee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Rys Sommefeldt <rsommefeldt@plus.net>
> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:14:56 +0000
> Subject: [PATCH] Close fd when done
>
> ---
> shared.c |    9 +++++++--
> 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/shared.c b/shared.c
> index d7b2d5a..d5e54e6 100644
> --- a/shared.c
> +++ b/shared.c
> @@ -404,14 +404,19 @@ int readfile(const char *path, char **buf, size_t
> *size)
>    struct stat st;
>
>    fd = open(path, O_RDONLY);
> -    if (fd == -1)
> +    if (fd == -1) {
> +        close(fd);
>        return errno;
> -    if (fstat(fd, &st))
> +    }
The above change looks bogus. If fd == -1, you close() it anyway?
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> +    if (fstat(fd, &st)) {
> +        close(fd);
>        return errno;
> +    }
>    if (!S_ISREG(st.st_mode))
>        return EISDIR;
>    *buf = xmalloc(st.st_size + 1);
>    *size = read_in_full(fd, *buf, st.st_size);
>    (*buf)[*size] = '\0';
> +    close(fd);
>    return (*size == st.st_size ? 0 : errno);
> }
> --
> 1.6.5.2
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  2. Steven NoonanNov 7, 2009
  3. Rys SommefeldtNov 7, 2009
  4. Rys SommefeldtNov 7, 2009
  5. Lars HjemliNov 7, 2009
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