With the idea of returning pidfds from the fanotify API, we need to expose a mechanism for creating pidfds. We drop the static qualifier from pidfd_create() and add its declaration to linux/pid.h so that the pidfd_create() helper can be called from other kernel subsystems i.e. fanotify. Signed-off-by: Matthew Bobrowski <repnop@xxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/pid.h | 1 + kernel/pid.c | 4 +++- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/pid.h b/include/linux/pid.h index fa10acb8d6a4..af308e15f174 100644 --- a/include/linux/pid.h +++ b/include/linux/pid.h @@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ struct file; extern struct pid *pidfd_pid(const struct file *file); struct pid *pidfd_get_pid(unsigned int fd, unsigned int *flags); +int pidfd_create(struct pid *pid, unsigned int flags); static inline struct pid *get_pid(struct pid *pid) { diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c index ebdf9c60cd0b..d3cd95b8b080 100644 --- a/kernel/pid.c +++ b/kernel/pid.c @@ -550,10 +550,12 @@ struct pid *pidfd_get_pid(unsigned int fd, unsigned int *flags) * Note, that this function can only be called after the fd table has * been unshared to avoid leaking the pidfd to the new process. * + * This symbol should not be explicitly exported to loadable modules. + * * Return: On success, a cloexec pidfd is returned. * On error, a negative errno number will be returned. */ -static int pidfd_create(struct pid *pid, unsigned int flags) +int pidfd_create(struct pid *pid, unsigned int flags) { int fd; -- 2.30.2 /M