Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] net/mlx5: fix existing file removal

["Nélio Laranjeiro" <nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com>]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 11:22:27PM +0800, Xueming Li wrote:
> There is no guarantee that the file won't be removed by external
> user/application between the stat() and remove() syscalls, remove() will
> fail if the file no longer exists.
> 
> Fixes: f8b9a3bad467 ("net/mlx5: install a socket to exchange a file descriptor")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xueming Li <xuemingl@mellanox.com>

Acked-by: Nelio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com>

> ---
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_socket.c | 5 +----
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_socket.c b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_socket.c
> index 61c1a4a..fb80fb3 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_socket.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_socket.c
> @@ -32,7 +32,6 @@
>  	};
>  	int ret;
>  	int flags;
> -	struct stat file_stat;
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * Initialise the socket to communicate with the secondary
> @@ -52,9 +51,7 @@
>  		goto out;
>  	snprintf(sun.sun_path, sizeof(sun.sun_path), "/var/tmp/%s_%d",
>  		 MLX5_DRIVER_NAME, priv->primary_socket);
> -	ret = stat(sun.sun_path, &file_stat);
> -	if (!ret)
> -		claim_zero(remove(sun.sun_path));
> +	remove(sun.sun_path);
>  	ret = bind(priv->primary_socket, (const struct sockaddr *)&sun,
>  		   sizeof(sun));
>  	if (ret < 0) {
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1
> 

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Nélio Laranjeiro
6WIND