BACKPORT: pid: add pidfd_open()
authorChristian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
Fri, 24 May 2019 10:43:51 +0000 (12:43 +0200)
committerlingsen1 <lingsen1@lenovo.com>
Sun, 7 Feb 2021 09:37:09 +0000 (17:37 +0800)
commit2b96d920a645c8b3898fa9b0325271f318e1f9f2
tree7ee5921abe9d6203a1de429c393f7cab196f7837
parentdc8afad968a0500c9b027a4f63341d8e979fbe00
BACKPORT: pid: add pidfd_open()

This adds the pidfd_open() syscall. It allows a caller to retrieve pollable
pidfds for a process which did not get created via CLONE_PIDFD, i.e. for a
process that is created via traditional fork()/clone() calls that is only
referenced by a PID:

int pidfd = pidfd_open(1234, 0);
ret = pidfd_send_signal(pidfd, SIGSTOP, NULL, 0);

With the introduction of pidfds through CLONE_PIDFD it is possible to
created pidfds at process creation time.
However, a lot of processes get created with traditional PID-based calls
such as fork() or clone() (without CLONE_PIDFD). For these processes a
caller can currently not create a pollable pidfd. This is a problem for
Android's low memory killer (LMK) and service managers such as systemd.
Both are examples of tools that want to make use of pidfds to get reliable
notification of process exit for non-parents (pidfd polling) and race-free
signal sending (pidfd_send_signal()). They intend to switch to this API for
process supervision/management as soon as possible. Having no way to get
pollable pidfds from PID-only processes is one of the biggest blockers for
them in adopting this api. With pidfd_open() making it possible to retrieve
pidfds for PID-based processes we enable them to adopt this api.

In line with Arnd's recent changes to consolidate syscall numbers across
architectures, I have added the pidfd_open() syscall to all architectures
at the same time.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Perry Lutomirsky <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
(cherry picked from commit 32fcb426ec001cb6d5a4a195091a8486ea77e2df)

Conflicts:
        kernel/pid.c

(1. Replaced PIDTYPE_TGID with PIDTYPE_PID and thread_group_leader() check in pidfd_open() call)

Mot-CRs-fixed: (CR)

Bug: 135608568
Test: test program using syscall(__NR_sys_pidfd_open,..) and poll()
Change-Id: I52a93a73722d7f7754dae05f63b94b4ca4a71a75
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.mot.com/1505856
SME-Granted: SME Approvals Granted
SLTApproved: Slta Waiver
Tested-by: Jira Key
Reviewed-by: Wang Wang <wangwang1@lenovo.com>
Reviewed-by: Yonghui Jia <jiayh2@motorola.com>
Submit-Approved: Jira Key
Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.mot.com/1796165
Reviewed-by: Xiangpo Zhao <zhaoxp3@motorola.com>
include/linux/syscalls.h
kernel/pid.c