Merge tag 'for-linus-20190627' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux
Pull pidfd fixes from Christian Brauner:
"Userspace tools and libraries such as strace or glibc need a cheap and
reliable way to tell whether CLONE_PIDFD is supported. The easiest way
is to pass an invalid fd value in the return argument, perform the
syscall and verify the value in the return argument has been changed
to a valid fd.
However, if CLONE_PIDFD is specified we currently check if pidfd == 0
and return EINVAL if not.
The check for pidfd == 0 was originally added to enable us to abuse
the return argument for passing additional flags along with
CLONE_PIDFD in the future.
However, extending legacy clone this way would be a terrible idea and
with clone3 on the horizon and the ability to reuse CLONE_DETACHED
with CLONE_PIDFD there's no real need for this clutch. So remove the
pidfd == 0 check and help userspace out.
Also, accordig to Al, anon_inode_getfd() should only be used past the
point of no failure and ksys_close() should not be used at all since
it is far too easy to get wrong. Al's motto being "basically, once
it's in descriptor table, it's out of your control". So Al's patch
switches back to what we already had in v1 of the original patchset
and uses a anon_inode_getfile() + put_user() + fd_install() sequence
in the success path and a fput() + put_unused_fd() in the failure
path.
The other two changes should be trivial"
* tag 'for-linus-20190627' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
proc: remove useless d_is_dir() check
copy_process(): don't use ksys_close() on cleanups
samples: make pidfd-metadata fail gracefully on older kernels
fork: don't check parent_tidptr with CLONE_PIDFD
