Merge tag 'pidfd.v5.17-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux
Pull pidfd fix from Christian Brauner: "This fixes a problem reported by lockdep when installing a pidfd via fd_install() with siglock and the tasklisk write lock held in copy_process() when calling clone()/clone3() with CLONE_PIDFD. Originally a pidfd was created prior to holding any of these locks but this required a call to ksys_close(). So quite some time ago in 6fd2fe49 ("copy_process(): don't use ksys_close() on cleanups") we switched to a get_unused_fd_flags() + fd_install() model. As part of that we moved fd_install() as late as possible. This was done for two main reasons. First, because we needed to ensure that we call fd_install() past the point of no return as once that's called the fd is live in the task's file table. Second, because we tried to ensure that the fd is visible in /proc/<pid>/fd/<pidfd> right when the task is visible. This fix moves the fd_install() to an even later point which means that a task will be visible in proc while the pidfd isn't yet under /proc/<pid>/fd/<pidfd>. While this is a user visible change it's very unlikely that this will have any impact. Nobody should be relying on that and if they do we need to come up with something better but again, it's doubtful this is relevant" * tag 'pidfd.v5.17-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux: copy_process(): Move fd_install() out of sighand->siglock critical section
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