linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC] pidns: introduce syscall getvpid

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Date:	Tue, 15 Sep 2015 16:20:52 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>
Cc:	linux-api@...r.kernel.org, containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] pidns: introduce syscall getvpid

On 09/15, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
>
> +SYSCALL_DEFINE3(getvpid, pid_t, pid, pid_t, source, pid_t, target)
> +{
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PID_NS
> +	struct pid_namespace *current_ns = task_active_pid_ns(current);
> +	struct pid_namespace *source_ns = current_ns, *target_ns = current_ns;
> +	struct pid *task_pid;
> +	pid_t result = -ESRCH;
> +
> +	rcu_read_lock();
> +	if (source)
> +		source_ns = ns_of_pid(find_pid_ns(source, current_ns));
> +	if (target)
> +		target_ns = ns_of_pid(find_pid_ns(target, current_ns));
> +	if (source_ns && target_ns) {
> +		task_pid = find_pid_ns(pid, source_ns);
> +		if (task_pid)
> +			result = pid_nr_ns(task_pid, target_ns);
> +	}
> +	rcu_read_unlock();
> +
> +	return result;
> +#else
> +	return pid;
> +#endif /* CONFIG_PID_NS */
> +}

Not sure we actually want ifdef(CONFIG_PID_NS). If this is just optimization
I'd suggest to simply add

	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PID_NS))
		return pid;

at the start.

But. Either way this unconditional "return pid" doesn't look right imho.
I think we should return -ESRCH if this pid number is not valid to ensure
we have the same semantics with-or-without CONFIG_PID_NS. So it seems that
you should remove this ifdef, this will also ensure that we return -ESRCH
if (say) source != 0 and find_pid_ns(source) fails.

Oleg.

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