linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] pid: add pidfd

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Date:   Sun, 31 Mar 2019 07:52:28 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
Cc:     Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        Daniel Colascione <dancol@...gle.com>,
        Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>,
        Andrew Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
        Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Michael Kerrisk-manpages <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
        Jonathan Kowalski <bl0pbl33p@...il.com>,
        "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@...linux.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Nagarathnam Muthusamy <nagarathnam.muthusamy@...cle.com>,
        Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@...har.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] pid: add pidfd_open()

On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 9:47 PM Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> Sure, given a pidfd_clone() syscall, as long as the parent of the
> process is giving you a pidfd for it and you don't have to deal with
> grandchildren created by fork() calls outside your control, that
> works.

Don't do pidfd_clone() and pidfd_wait().

Both of those existing system calls already get a "flags" argument.
Just make a WPIDFD (for waitid) and CLONE_PIDFD (for clone) bit, and
make the existing system calls just take/return a pidfd.

Side note: we could (should?) also make the default maxpid just be
larger. It needs to fit in an 'int', but MAXINT instead of 65535 would
likely alreadt make a lot of these attacks harder.

There was some really old legacy reason why we actually limited it to
65535 originally.  It was old and crufty even back when..

               Linus

              Linus