Re: [PATCH] pidfd: cleanup the usage of __pidfd_prepare's flags

[Christian Brauner]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 17:17:34 +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> - make pidfd_create() static.
> 
> - Don't pass O_RDWR | O_CLOEXEC to __pidfd_prepare() in copy_process(),
>   __pidfd_prepare() adds these flags unconditionally.
> 
> - Kill the flags check in __pidfd_prepare(). sys_pidfd_open() checks the
>   flags itself, all other users of pidfd_prepare() pass flags = 0.
> 
> [...]

Thanks!

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Applied to the vfs.misc branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the vfs.misc branch should appear in linux-next soon.

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[1/1] pidfd: cleanup the usage of __pidfd_prepare's flags
      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/2502da713861