Merge tag 'v6.4/pidfd.file' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux

Pull pidfd updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This adds a new pidfd_prepare() helper which allows the caller to
  reserve a pidfd number and allocates a new pidfd file that stashes the
  provided struct pid.

  It should be avoided installing a file descriptor into a task's file
  descriptor table just to close it again via close_fd() in case an
  error occurs. The fd has been visible to userspace and might already
  be in use. Instead, a file descriptor should be reserved but not
  installed into the caller's file descriptor table.

  If another failure path is hit then the reserved file descriptor and
  file can just be put without any userspace visible side-effects. And
  if all failure paths are cleared the file descriptor and file can be
  installed into the task's file descriptor table.

  This helper is now used in all places that open coded this
  functionality before. For example, this is currently done during
  copy_process() and fanotify used pidfd_create(), which returns a pidfd
  that has already been made visibile in the caller's file descriptor
  table, but then closed it using close_fd().

  In one of the next merge windows there is also new functionality
  coming to unix domain sockets that will have to rely on
  pidfd_prepare()"

* tag 'v6.4/pidfd.file' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
  fanotify: use pidfd_prepare()
  fork: use pidfd_prepare()
  pid: add pidfd_prepare()

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