Re: [PATCH RFC 03/10] pidfs: move setting flags into pidfs_alloc_file()

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On 02/28, Christian Brauner wrote:
>
> @@ -696,6 +696,10 @@ struct file *pidfs_alloc_file(struct pid *pid, unsigned int flags)
>  		return ERR_PTR(ret);
>
>  	pidfd_file = dentry_open(&path, flags, current_cred());
> +	/* Raise PIDFD_THREAD explicitly as dentry_open() strips it. */
                                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Hmm, does it?

dentry_open(flags) just passes "flags" to alloc_empty_file()->init_file(),
and init_file(flags) does

	f->f_flags      = flags;

so it seems that

> @@ -2042,11 +2042,6 @@ static int __pidfd_prepare(struct pid *pid, unsigned int flags, struct file **re
>  	if (IS_ERR(pidfd_file))
>  		return PTR_ERR(pidfd_file);
>
> -	/*
> -	 * anon_inode_getfile() ignores everything outside of the
> -	 * O_ACCMODE | O_NONBLOCK mask, set PIDFD_THREAD manually.
> -	 */
> -	pidfd_file->f_flags |= (flags & PIDFD_THREAD);

we can just kill this outdated code?

Oleg.





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