Re: [PATCH v1 2/4] clone: add CLONE_PIDFD

From: Christian Brauner
Date: Wed Apr 17 2019 - 10:28:19 EST


On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 04:25:51PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 04:22:54PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > On 04/16, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > >
> > > + if (clone_flags & CLONE_PIDFD) {
> > > + retval = pidfd_create(pid, &pidfdf);
> > > + if (retval < 0)
> > > + goto bad_fork_free_pid;
> > > + pidfd = retval;
> > > + }
> >
> > ...
> >
> > > + if (clone_flags & CLONE_PIDFD) {
> > > + fd_install(pidfd, pidfdf);
> > > + put_user(pidfd, parent_tidptr);
> >
> > put_user() can fail, I don't think this error should be silently ignored,

Fwiw, the same is currently done for PARENT_SETTID which seems odd as
well...