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2024-06-28pidfs: allow retrieval of namespace file descriptorsChristian Brauner1-0/+14
For users that hold a reference to a pidfd procfs might not even be available nor is it desirable to parse through procfs just for the sake of getting namespace file descriptors for a process. Make it possible to directly retrieve namespace file descriptors from a pidfd. Pidfds already can be used with setns() to change a set of namespaces atomically. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240627-work-pidfs-v1-4-7e9ab6cc3bb1@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Reviewed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-02-21pidfd: allow to override signal scope in pidfd_send_signal()Christian Brauner1-0/+5
Right now we determine the scope of the signal based on the type of pidfd. There are use-cases where it's useful to override the scope of the signal. For example in [1]. Add flags to determine the scope of the signal: (1) PIDFD_SIGNAL_THREAD: send signal to specific thread reference by @pidfd (2) PIDFD_SIGNAL_THREAD_GROUP: send signal to thread-group of @pidfd (2) PIDFD_SIGNAL_PROCESS_GROUP: send signal to process-group of @pidfd Since we now allow specifying PIDFD_SEND_PROCESS_GROUP for pidfd_send_signal() to send signals to process groups we need to adjust the check restricting si_code emulation by userspace to account for PIDTYPE_PGID. Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Link: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/31093 [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240210-chihuahua-hinzog-3945b6abd44a@brauner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240214123655.GB16265@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-02-02pidfd: implement PIDFD_THREAD flag for pidfd_open()Oleg Nesterov1-1/+2
With this flag: - pidfd_open() doesn't require that the target task must be a thread-group leader - pidfd_poll() succeeds when the task exits and becomes a zombie (iow, passes exit_notify()), even if it is a leader and thread-group is not empty. This means that the behaviour of pidfd_poll(PIDFD_THREAD, pid-of-group-leader) is not well defined if it races with exec() from its sub-thread; pidfd_poll() can succeed or not depending on whether pidfd_task_exited() is called before or after exchange_tids(). Perhaps we can improve this behaviour later, pidfd_poll() can probably take sig->group_exec_task into account. But this doesn't really differ from the case when the leader exits before other threads (so pidfd_poll() succeeds) and then another thread execs and pidfd_poll() will block again. thread_group_exited() is no longer used, perhaps it can die. Co-developed-by: Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.pizza> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240131132602.GA23641@redhat.com Tested-by: Tycho Andersen <tandersen@netflix.com> Reviewed-by: Tycho Andersen <tandersen@netflix.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2020-09-04pidfd: support PIDFD_NONBLOCK in pidfd_open()Christian Brauner1-0/+12
Introduce PIDFD_NONBLOCK to support non-blocking pidfd file descriptors. Ever since the introduction of pidfds and more advanced async io various programming languages such as Rust have grown support for async event libraries. These libraries are created to help build epoll-based event loops around file descriptors. A common pattern is to automatically make all file descriptors they manage to O_NONBLOCK. For such libraries the EAGAIN error code is treated specially. When a function is called that returns EAGAIN the function isn't called again until the event loop indicates the the file descriptor is ready. Supporting EAGAIN when waiting on pidfds makes such libraries just work with little effort. In the following patch we will extend waitid() internally to support non-blocking pidfds. This introduces a new flag PIDFD_NONBLOCK that is equivalent to O_NONBLOCK. This follows the same patterns we have for other (anon inode) file descriptors such as EFD_NONBLOCK, IN_NONBLOCK, SFD_NONBLOCK, TFD_NONBLOCK and the same for close-on-exec flags. Suggested-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Sargun Dhillon <sargun@sargun.me> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200811181236.GA18763@localhost/ Link: https://github.com/joshtriplett/async-pidfd Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200902102130.147672-2-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com