linux-kernel - [PATCH][RFC] fs/exec.c: provide the correct process pid to the pipe helper

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Date:	Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:59:59 -0500
From:	Will Drewry <wad@...omium.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Will Drewry <wad@...omium.org>
Subject: [PATCH][RFC] fs/exec.c: provide the correct process pid to the pipe helper

format_corename uses task_tgid_vnr to provide the numeric pid of a
core-dumping process.  For file-based coredumps, this is perfectly
satisfactory.  However, when the core_pattern contains a pipe, the
substituted PID is invalid in the namespace of the core_pattern pipe
helper, the init namespace.

By changing this, any core collector may now find the process in the
init namespace /proc.  This helps with VFS namespacing too since the
mount root is available via /proc.  Unfortunately, it does not help in
cases of more complex namespacing, like net namespaces.  For that, the
helper thread will need to be migrated to the core-dump namespaces.

I have a separate patch series which implements migrating the
____call_usermodehelper thread to the coredump namespace, but it adds a
fair amount of complexity which might be better handled by someone who
understands that code.  I'm happy to mail it out as well though (it
works, but I don't assign a namespaced pid which may open up issues on
its own).

Any and all comments, feedback will be appreciated!

Signed-off-by: Will Drewry <wad@...omium.org>
---
 fs/exec.c |   11 +++++++++--
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index 828dd24..0b8a874 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -1467,6 +1467,13 @@ static int format_corename(char *corename, long signr)
 	char *const out_end = corename + CORENAME_MAX_SIZE;
 	int rc;
 	int pid_in_pattern = 0;
+	pid_t pid = task_tgid_vnr(current);
+
+	/* The pipe helper runs in the init namespace and should
+	 * receive the matching pid until that changes.
+	 */
+	if (ispipe)
+		pid = task_tgid_nr(current);

 	/* Repeat as long as we have more pattern to process and more output
 	   space */
@@ -1489,7 +1496,7 @@ static int format_corename(char *corename, long signr)
 			case 'p':
 				pid_in_pattern = 1;
 				rc = snprintf(out_ptr, out_end - out_ptr,
-					      "%d", task_tgid_vnr(current));
+					      "%d", pid);
 				if (rc > out_end - out_ptr)
 					goto out;
 				out_ptr += rc;
@@ -1568,7 +1575,7 @@ static int format_corename(char *corename, long signr)
 	 * the filename. Do not do this for piped commands. */
 	if (!ispipe && !pid_in_pattern && core_uses_pid) {
 		rc = snprintf(out_ptr, out_end - out_ptr,
-			      ".%d", task_tgid_vnr(current));
+			      ".%d", pid);
 		if (rc > out_end - out_ptr)
 			goto out;
 		out_ptr += rc;
-- 
1.7.0.4

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