Re: [PATCH v1 3/4] signal: support CLONE_PIDFD with pidfd_send_signal

[Christian Brauner]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 04:01:06PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 04/16, Christian Brauner wrote:
> >
> > @@ -3581,12 +3588,12 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(pidfd_send_signal, int, pidfd, int, sig,
> >  	if (flags)
> >  		return -EINVAL;
> >
> > -	f = fdget_raw(pidfd);
> > +	f = fdget(pidfd);
> 
> could you explain this change?
> 
> I am just curious, I don't understand why should we disallow O_PATH and how
> this connects to this patch.

Sending a signal through a pidfd is considered to be on a par with a
"write" to that pidfd.
Additionally, we use the fops associated with the fd to detect whether
it is actually a pidfd or not. This is not possible with O_PATH since
f_ops will be set to dummy fops. So we already correctly error out since
we detect that it is an O_PATH before fdget_raw(). This just takes the
opportunity to fix it.

Christian