linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] signal: support CLONE_PIDFD with pidfd_send

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Message-ID: <EF6F0B39-1F4A-4A8F-9C64-FB3B1E804C83@brauner.io>
Date:   Thu, 18 Apr 2019 17:01:00 +0200
From:   Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>
To:     Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] signal: support CLONE_PIDFD with pidfd_send_signal

On April 18, 2019 4:26:00 PM GMT+02:00, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com> wrote:
>On 04/18, Christian Brauner wrote:
>>
>> +static struct pid *pidfd_to_pid(const struct file *file)
>> +{
>> +	if (file->f_op == &pidfd_fops)
>> +		return file->private_data;
>> +
>> +	return tgid_pidfd_to_pid(file);
>> +}
>
>the patch looks obviously fine to me, but I have an absolutely
>off-topic
>question... why tgid_pidfd_to_pid() has to check d_is_dir() ?

It doesn't have too; pure paranoia.

Christian