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authorChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>2025-04-25 10:11:32 +0200
committerChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>2025-04-26 08:28:03 +0200
commita71f402acd71a942e59c16270ad61dee06de6e24 (patch)
treebff0df3c19d5342474642047c3c32cd10a5158ad /fs/pidfs.c
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pidfs: get rid of __pidfd_prepare()
Fold it into pidfd_prepare() and rename PIDFD_CLONE to PIDFD_STALE to indicate that the passed pid might not have task linkage and no explicit check for that should be performed. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250425-work-pidfs-net-v2-3-450a19461e75@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: David Rheinsberg <david@readahead.eu> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/pidfs.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/pidfs.c22
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/fs/pidfs.c b/fs/pidfs.c
index ec5f9ad09bb8..9d993ecadad7 100644
--- a/fs/pidfs.c
+++ b/fs/pidfs.c
@@ -768,7 +768,7 @@ static inline bool pidfs_pid_valid(struct pid *pid, const struct path *path,
{
enum pid_type type;
- if (flags & PIDFD_CLONE)
+ if (flags & PIDFD_STALE)
return true;
/*
@@ -777,10 +777,14 @@ static inline bool pidfs_pid_valid(struct pid *pid, const struct path *path,
* pidfd has been allocated perform another check that the pid
* is still alive. If it is exit information is available even
* if the task gets reaped before the pidfd is returned to
- * userspace. The only exception is PIDFD_CLONE where no task
- * linkage has been established for @pid yet and the kernel is
- * in the middle of process creation so there's nothing for
- * pidfs to miss.
+ * userspace. The only exception are indicated by PIDFD_STALE:
+ *
+ * (1) The kernel is in the middle of task creation and thus no
+ * task linkage has been established yet.
+ * (2) The caller knows @pid has been registered in pidfs at a
+ * time when the task was still alive.
+ *
+ * In both cases exit information will have been reported.
*/
if (flags & PIDFD_THREAD)
type = PIDTYPE_PID;
@@ -874,11 +878,11 @@ struct file *pidfs_alloc_file(struct pid *pid, unsigned int flags)
int ret;
/*
- * Ensure that PIDFD_CLONE can be passed as a flag without
+ * Ensure that PIDFD_STALE can be passed as a flag without
* overloading other uapi pidfd flags.
*/
- BUILD_BUG_ON(PIDFD_CLONE == PIDFD_THREAD);
- BUILD_BUG_ON(PIDFD_CLONE == PIDFD_NONBLOCK);
+ BUILD_BUG_ON(PIDFD_STALE == PIDFD_THREAD);
+ BUILD_BUG_ON(PIDFD_STALE == PIDFD_NONBLOCK);
ret = path_from_stashed(&pid->stashed, pidfs_mnt, get_pid(pid), &path);
if (ret < 0)
@@ -887,7 +891,7 @@ struct file *pidfs_alloc_file(struct pid *pid, unsigned int flags)
if (!pidfs_pid_valid(pid, &path, flags))
return ERR_PTR(-ESRCH);
- flags &= ~PIDFD_CLONE;
+ flags &= ~PIDFD_STALE;
pidfd_file = dentry_open(&path, flags, current_cred());
/* Raise PIDFD_THREAD explicitly as do_dentry_open() strips it. */
if (!IS_ERR(pidfd_file))