From f08d0c3a71114bb36d1722506d926bd497182781 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lorenzo Stoakes Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 20:40:26 +0000 Subject: pidfd: add PIDFD_SELF* sentinels to refer to own thread/process It is useful to be able to utilise the pidfd mechanism to reference the current thread or process (from a userland point of view - thread group leader from the kernel's point of view). Therefore introduce PIDFD_SELF_THREAD to refer to the current thread, and PIDFD_SELF_THREAD_GROUP to refer to the current thread group leader. For convenience and to avoid confusion from userland's perspective we alias these: * PIDFD_SELF is an alias for PIDFD_SELF_THREAD - This is nearly always what the user will want to use, as they would find it surprising if for instance fd's were unshared()'d and they wanted to invoke pidfd_getfd() and that failed. * PIDFD_SELF_PROCESS is an alias for PIDFD_SELF_THREAD_GROUP - Most users have no concept of thread groups or what a thread group leader is, and from userland's perspective and nomenclature this is what userland considers to be a process. We adjust pidfd_get_task() and the pidfd_send_signal() system call with specific handling for this, implementing this functionality for process_madvise(), process_mrelease() (albeit, using it here wouldn't really make sense) and pidfd_send_signal(). Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/24315a16a3d01a548dd45c7515f7d51c767e954e.1738268370.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner --- kernel/pid.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/pid.c') diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c index 924084713be8..22f5d2b2e290 100644 --- a/kernel/pid.c +++ b/kernel/pid.c @@ -564,15 +564,29 @@ struct pid *pidfd_get_pid(unsigned int fd, unsigned int *flags) */ struct task_struct *pidfd_get_task(int pidfd, unsigned int *flags) { - unsigned int f_flags; + unsigned int f_flags = 0; struct pid *pid; struct task_struct *task; + enum pid_type type; - pid = pidfd_get_pid(pidfd, &f_flags); - if (IS_ERR(pid)) - return ERR_CAST(pid); + switch (pidfd) { + case PIDFD_SELF_THREAD: + type = PIDTYPE_PID; + pid = get_task_pid(current, type); + break; + case PIDFD_SELF_THREAD_GROUP: + type = PIDTYPE_TGID; + pid = get_task_pid(current, type); + break; + default: + pid = pidfd_get_pid(pidfd, &f_flags); + if (IS_ERR(pid)) + return ERR_CAST(pid); + type = PIDTYPE_TGID; + break; + } - task = get_pid_task(pid, PIDTYPE_TGID); + task = get_pid_task(pid, type); put_pid(pid); if (!task) return ERR_PTR(-ESRCH); -- cgit v1.2.3