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f_flags |= (flags & PIDFD_THREAD); we can just kill this outdated code?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.