Re: [PATCH 2/4] clone: add CLONE_PIDFD

[Christian Brauner]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 12:52:09PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 04/14, Christian Brauner wrote:
> >
> > @@ -2260,6 +2363,10 @@ long _do_fork(unsigned long clone_flags,
> >  	}
> >
> >  	put_pid(pid);
> > +
> > +	if (clone_flags & CLONE_PIDFD)
> > +		nr = pidfd;
> > +
> 
> Well, this doesn't look nice ...
> 
> CLONE_PARENT_SETTID doesn't look very usefule, so what if we add
> 
> 	if ((clone_flags & (CLONE_PIDFD|CLONE_PARENT_SETTID)) ==
> 	                   (CLONE_PIDFD|CLONE_PARENT_SETTID))
> 		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> 
> at the start of copy_process() ?
> 
> Then it can do
> 
> 	if (clone_flags & CLONE_PIDFD) {
> 		retval = pidfd_create(pid, &pidfdf);
> 		if (retval < 0)
> 			goto bad_fork_free_pid;
> 		retval = put_user(retval, parent_tidptr)
> 		if (retval < 0)
> 			goto bad_fork_free_pid;
> 	}

Uhhh Oleg, that is nifty. I have to say I like that a lot. This would
let us return the pid and the pidfd in one go and we can also start
pidfd numbering at 0.