On 05/15, Christian Brauner wrote:

+SYSCALL_DEFINE2(pidfd_open, pid_t, pid, unsigned int, flags)
+{
+	int fd, ret;
+	struct pid *p;
+	struct task_struct *tsk;
+
+	if (flags)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	if (pid <= 0)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	p = find_get_pid(pid);
+	if (!p)
+		return -ESRCH;
+
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	tsk = pid_task(p, PIDTYPE_PID);

You do not need find_get_pid() before rcu_lock and put_pid() at the end.
You can just do find_vpid() under rcu_read_lock().

+	if (!tsk)
+		ret = -ESRCH;
+	else if (unlikely(!thread_group_leader(tsk)))
+		ret = -EINVAL;

it seems that you can do a single check

	tsk = pid_task(p, PIDTYPE_TGID);
	if (!tsk)
		ret = -ESRCH;

this even looks more correct if we race with exec changing the leader.

Oleg.