Thread (41 messages) 41 messages, 5 authors, 2021-08-05
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[PATCH v3 1/5] kernel/pid.c: remove static qualifier from pidfd_create()

From: Matthew Bobrowski <repnop@google.com>
Date: 2021-07-21 06:18:12
Also in: linux-api
Subsystem: the rest · Maintainer: Linus Torvalds

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@google.com>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <redacted>
---
 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;
 
-- 
2.32.0.432.gabb21c7263-goog

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