Stop open-coding get_unused_fd_flags() and anon_inode_getfile(). That's brittle just for keeping the flags between both calls in sync. Use the dedicated helper. Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/fork.c | 12 +----------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index c0257cbee093..1f5eb854ba3e 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -2291,21 +2291,11 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process( * if the fd table isn't shared). */ if (clone_flags & CLONE_PIDFD) { - retval = get_unused_fd_flags(O_RDWR | O_CLOEXEC); + retval = pidfd_prepare(pid, O_RDWR | O_CLOEXEC, &pidfile); if (retval < 0) goto bad_fork_free_pid; - pidfd = retval; - pidfile = anon_inode_getfile("[pidfd]", &pidfd_fops, pid, - O_RDWR | O_CLOEXEC); - if (IS_ERR(pidfile)) { - put_unused_fd(pidfd); - retval = PTR_ERR(pidfile); - goto bad_fork_free_pid; - } - get_pid(pid); /* held by pidfile now */ - retval = put_user(pidfd, args->pidfd); if (retval) goto bad_fork_put_pidfd; -- 2.34.1