linux-kernel - [RESEND PATCH net-next 5/6] af_unix: enable handing out pidfds for reaped tasks in SCM

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Message-ID: <20250629214449.14462-6-aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2025 23:44:42 +0200
From: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@...onical.com>
To: kuniyu@...gle.com
Cc: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@...onical.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>,
	Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>,
	Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
	Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@...inter.de>,
	Luca Boccassi <bluca@...ian.org>,
	David Rheinsberg <david@...dahead.eu>,
	Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>
Subject: [RESEND PATCH net-next 5/6] af_unix: enable handing out pidfds for reaped tasks in SCM_PIDFD

Now everything is ready to pass PIDFD_STALE to pidfd_prepare().
This will allow opening pidfd for reaped tasks.

Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
Cc: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...gle.com>
Cc: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@...inter.de>
Cc: Luca Boccassi <bluca@...ian.org>
Cc: David Rheinsberg <david@...dahead.eu>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@...onical.com>
---
 include/net/scm.h | 1 +
 net/core/scm.c    | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/net/scm.h b/include/net/scm.h
index d1ae0704f230..1960c2b4f0b1 100644
--- a/include/net/scm.h
+++ b/include/net/scm.h
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 #include <linux/file.h>
 #include <linux/security.h>
 #include <linux/pid.h>
+#include <uapi/linux/pidfd.h>
 #include <linux/pidfs.h>
 #include <linux/nsproxy.h>
 #include <linux/sched/signal.h>
diff --git a/net/core/scm.c b/net/core/scm.c
index 0e71d5a249a1..022d5035d146 100644
--- a/net/core/scm.c
+++ b/net/core/scm.c
@@ -464,7 +464,7 @@ static void scm_pidfd_recv(struct msghdr *msg, struct scm_cookie *scm)
 	if (!scm->pid)
 		return;
 
-	pidfd = pidfd_prepare(scm->pid, 0, &pidfd_file);
+	pidfd = pidfd_prepare(scm->pid, PIDFD_STALE, &pidfd_file);
 
 	if (put_cmsg(msg, SOL_SOCKET, SCM_PIDFD, sizeof(int), &pidfd)) {
 		if (pidfd_file) {
-- 
2.43.0