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    fuse: fix deadlock with parallel mounts · 36b35911
    Han-Wen Nienhuys authored
    Commit 1aa7b7b2 ("fs: document known deadlocks") describes a deadlock
    scenario where inheriting file descriptors triggers a spurious close
    during subprocess setup, leading to deadlock.
    
    This exact scenario actually happens when setting up the FUSE mount
    using fusermount: the fusermount process inherits one half of a socket
    pair, which is used to pass back the opened /dev/fuse file.  After the
    mount is successful, we open a file in the FUSE mount for the poll
    hack. This means that in parallel scenarios, we may use fd 3 as the
    poll hack, while also calling fusermount with inherited file
    descriptors.
    
    Solve this by grabbing fd 3 during initialization.
    
    This is not completely foolproof, as FD 0, 1 and 2 could be closed
    (and then reused) after initialization finished, but this should be
    uncommon as 0, 1 and 2 are standard input/output/error.
    
    Doing it during the init phase means that we prevent deadlock for all
    users that inherit single file descriptors.
    
    Change-Id: If5ac7c941f0ee2e13ca657c31d056a676eed3fde
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