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    fanotify: use pidfd_prepare() · eee3a0e9
    Christian Brauner authored
    We generally try to avoid installing a file descriptor into the caller's
    file descriptor table just to close it again via close_fd() in case an
    error occurs. Instead we reserve a file descriptor but don't install it
    into the caller's file descriptor table yet. If we fail for other,
    unrelated reasons we can just close the reserved file descriptor and if
    we make it past all meaningful error paths we just install it. Fanotify
    gets this right already for one fd type but not for pidfds.
    
    Use the new pidfd_prepare() helper to reserve a pidfd and a pidfd file
    and switch to the more common fd allocation and installation pattern.
    Acked-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
    Message-Id: <20230327-pidfd-file-api-v1-3-5c0e9a3158e4@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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