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Message-ID: <ZcJ13uLxD6rTqqZZ@tycho.pizza>
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2024 11:09:34 -0700
From: Tycho Andersen <tycho@...ho.pizza>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
"Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
Tycho Andersen <tandersen@...flix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pidfd: getfd should always report ESRCH if a task is
exiting
On Tue, Feb 06, 2024 at 07:06:07PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> Or we can check task->files != NULL rather than PF_EXITING.
>
> To me this looks even better, but looks more confusing without a comment.
> OTOH, imo this needs a comment anyway ;)
I thought about this, but I didn't really understand the null check in
exit_files(); if it can really be called more than once, are there
other cases where task->files == NULL that we really should report
EBADF?
Tycho
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