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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull pidfd updates from Christian Brauner: "This adds a new pidfd_prepare() helper which allows the caller to reserve a pidfd number and allocates a new pidfd file that stashes the provided struct pid. It should be avoided installing a file descriptor into a task's file descriptor table just to close it again via close_fd() in case an error occurs. The fd has been visible to userspace and might already be in use. Instead, a file descriptor should be reserved but not installed into the caller's file descriptor table. If another failure path is hit then the reserved file descriptor and file can just be put without any userspace visible side-effects. And if all failure paths are cleared the file descriptor and file can be installed into the task's file descriptor table. This helper is now used in all places that open coded this functionality before. For example, this is currently done during copy_process() and fanotify used pidfd_create(), which returns a pidfd that has already been made visibile in the caller's file descriptor table, but then closed it using close_fd(). In one of the next merge windows there is also new functionality coming to unix domain sockets that will have to rely on pidfd_prepare()" * tag 'v6.4/pidfd.file' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux: fanotify: use pidfd_prepare() fork: use pidfd_prepare() pid: add pidfd_prepare()
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