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SubjectRe: [PATCH v1 2/4] clone: add CLONE_PIDFD
On 04/16, Christian Brauner wrote:
>
> + if (clone_flags & CLONE_PIDFD) {
> + retval = pidfd_create(pid, &pidfdf);
> + if (retval < 0)
> + goto bad_fork_free_pid;
> + pidfd = retval;
> + }

...

> + if (clone_flags & CLONE_PIDFD) {
> + fd_install(pidfd, pidfdf);
> + put_user(pidfd, parent_tidptr);

put_user() can fail, I don't think this error should be silently ignored,
this can lead to the hard-to-trigger/debug problems.

Why can't we do put_user-with-check along with pidfd_create() above?

Oleg.

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