Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] Add polling support to pidfd

[Joel Fernandes]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 10:02:45AM -0400, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 06:24:06PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
[snip]
> > > > +{
> > > > +	struct pid *pid;
> > > > +
> > > > +	lockdep_assert_held(&tasklist_lock);
> > > > +
> > > > +	pid = get_task_pid(task, PIDTYPE_PID);
> > > > +	wake_up_all(&pid->wait_pidfd);
> > > > +	put_pid(pid);
> > 
> > Why get/put?
> 
> Yes, pid_task() should do it. Will update it. Thanks!

I spoke too soon. We need the task's pid of type PIDTYPE_PID. How else can we
get it? This does an atomic_inc on the pid->count, so we need to put_pid()
after we are done with it. Did I miss something?

thanks,

 - Joel