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Message-ID: <X/MVdE394m7CUQl9@kroah.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 14:17:40 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>
Cc: Wen Yang <wenyang@...ux.alibaba.com>,
Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>,
Xunlei Pang <xlpang@...ux.alibaba.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
"Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
Andy Lutomirsky <luto@...nel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@...har.com>,
Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] clone: add CLONE_PIDFD
On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 02:13:42PM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 02:03:14PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 02:31:55AM +0800, Wen Yang wrote:
> > > From: Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>
> > >
> > > [ Upstream commit b3e5838252665ee4cfa76b82bdf1198dca81e5be ]
> > >
> > > This patchset makes it possible to retrieve pid file descriptors at
> > > process creation time by introducing the new flag CLONE_PIDFD to the
> > > clone() system call. Linus originally suggested to implement this as a
> > > new flag to clone() instead of making it a separate system call. As
> > > spotted by Linus, there is exactly one bit for clone() left.
> > >
> > > CLONE_PIDFD creates file descriptors based on the anonymous inode
> > > implementation in the kernel that will also be used to implement the new
> > > mount api. They serve as a simple opaque handle on pids. Logically,
> > > this makes it possible to interpret a pidfd differently, narrowing or
> > > widening the scope of various operations (e.g. signal sending). Thus, a
> > > pidfd cannot just refer to a tgid, but also a tid, or in theory - given
> > > appropriate flag arguments in relevant syscalls - a process group or
> > > session. A pidfd does not represent a privilege. This does not imply it
> > > cannot ever be that way but for now this is not the case.
> > >
> > > A pidfd comes with additional information in fdinfo if the kernel supports
> > > procfs. The fdinfo file contains the pid of the process in the callers
> > > pid namespace in the same format as the procfs status file, i.e. "Pid:\t%d".
> > >
> > > As suggested by Oleg, with CLONE_PIDFD the pidfd is returned in the
> > > parent_tidptr argument of clone. This has the advantage that we can
> > > give back the associated pid and the pidfd at the same time.
> > >
> > > To remove worries about missing metadata access this patchset comes with
> > > a sample program that illustrates how a combination of CLONE_PIDFD, and
> > > pidfd_send_signal() can be used to gain race-free access to process
> > > metadata through /proc/<pid>. The sample program can easily be
> > > translated into a helper that would be suitable for inclusion in libc so
> > > that users don't have to worry about writing it themselves.
> > >
> > > Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> > > Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>
> > > Co-developed-by: Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
> > > Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
> > > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> > > Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
> > > Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> > > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> > > Cc: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
> > > Cc: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
> > > Cc: Andy Lutomirsky <luto@...nel.org>
> > > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> > > Cc: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@...har.com>
> > > Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> > > Cc: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
> > > Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> # 4.9.x
> > > (clone: fix up cherry-pick conflicts for b3e583825266)
> > > Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <wenyang@...ux.alibaba.com>
> > > ---
> > > include/linux/pid.h | 1 +
> > > include/uapi/linux/sched.h | 1 +
> > > kernel/fork.c | 119 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> > > 3 files changed, 117 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/include/linux/pid.h b/include/linux/pid.h
> > > index 97b745d..7599a78 100644
> > > --- a/include/linux/pid.h
> > > +++ b/include/linux/pid.h
> > > @@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ struct pid_link
> > > struct hlist_node node;
> > > struct pid *pid;
> > > };
> > > +extern const struct file_operations pidfd_fops;
> > >
> > > static inline struct pid *get_pid(struct pid *pid)
> > > {
> > > diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/sched.h b/include/uapi/linux/sched.h
> > > index 5f0fe01..ed6e31d 100644
> > > --- a/include/uapi/linux/sched.h
> > > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/sched.h
> > > @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
> > > #define CLONE_FS 0x00000200 /* set if fs info shared between processes */
> > > #define CLONE_FILES 0x00000400 /* set if open files shared between processes */
> > > #define CLONE_SIGHAND 0x00000800 /* set if signal handlers and blocked signals shared */
> > > +#define CLONE_PIDFD 0x00001000 /* set if a pidfd should be placed in parent */
> > > #define CLONE_PTRACE 0x00002000 /* set if we want to let tracing continue on the child too */
> > > #define CLONE_VFORK 0x00004000 /* set if the parent wants the child to wake it up on mm_release */
> > > #define CLONE_PARENT 0x00008000 /* set if we want to have the same parent as the cloner */
> > > diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
> > > index b64efec..076297a 100644
> > > --- a/kernel/fork.c
> > > +++ b/kernel/fork.c
> > > @@ -11,7 +11,22 @@
> > > * management can be a bitch. See 'mm/memory.c': 'copy_page_range()'
> > > */
> > >
> > > +#include <linux/anon_inodes.h>
> > > #include <linux/slab.h>
> > > +#if 0
> > > +#include <linux/sched/autogroup.h>
> > > +#include <linux/sched/mm.h>
> > > +#include <linux/sched/coredump.h>
> > > +#include <linux/sched/user.h>
> > > +#include <linux/sched/numa_balancing.h>
> > > +#include <linux/sched/stat.h>
> > > +#include <linux/sched/task.h>
> > > +#include <linux/sched/task_stack.h>
> > > +#include <linux/sched/cputime.h>
> > > +#include <linux/seq_file.h>
> > > +#include <linux/rtmutex.h>
> > > +>>>>>>> b3e58382... clone: add CLONE_PIDFD
> > > +#endif
> >
> > That looks odd :(
> >
> > Can you please refresh this patch series, and make sure it is correct
> > and resend it?
>
> Uhm, this patch series has been merged at least a year ago so this looks
> like an accidental send.
> This probably isn't meant for upstream but for some alibaba specific
> kernel I'd reckon.
This was ment for the 4.19.y kernel to solve a problem reported in patch
00/XX of the series.
thanks,
greg k-h
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