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I think Pratyush went a bit overboard on that, I can see it is useful for testing, but really the kho control FD should be in either serializing or deserializing mode and it should not really act as an FD store. However, edge case handling makes this a bit complicated. Once a FD is submitted to be serialized that FD has to be frozen and can't be allowed to change anymore. If the kexec process aborts then we need to unwind all of this stuff and unfreeze all the FDs. It sure would be nice if the freezing process could be managed generically somehow. One option for freezing would have the kernel enforce that userspace has closed and idled the FD everywhere (eg check the struct file refcount == 1). If userspace doesn't have access to the FD then it is effectively frozen. In this case the error path would need to bring the FD back out of the fdbox. Jason