[GIT,PULL] vfs pidfs

Pull-request

[e-mail]:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs tags/vfs-6.13.pidfs

Message

Christian Brauner Nov. 15, 2024, 2:04 p.m. UTC

Hey Linus,

/* Summary */

This adds a new ioctl to retrieve information about a pidfd.

A common pattern when using pidfds is having to get information about
the process, which currently requires /proc being mounted, resolving the
fd to a pid, and then do manual string parsing of /proc/N/status and
friends. This needs to be reimplemented over and over in all userspace
projects (e.g.: it has been reimplemented in systemd, dbus, dbus-daemon,
polkit so far), and requires additional care in checking that the fd is
still valid after having parsed the data, to avoid races.

Having a programmatic API that can be used directly removes all these
requirements, including having /proc mounted.

As discussed at LPC24, add an ioctl with an extensible struct so that
more parameters can be added later if needed. Start with returning
pid/tgid/ppid and some creds unconditionally, and cgroupid optionally.

/* Testing */

gcc version 14.2.0 (Debian 14.2.0-6)
Debian clang version 16.0.6 (27+b1)

All patches are based on v6.12-rc3 and have been sitting in linux-next.
No build failures or warnings were observed.

/* Conflicts */

Merge conflicts with mainline
=============================

No known conflicts.

Merge conflicts with other trees
================================

No known conflicts.

The following changes since commit 8e929cb546ee42c9a61d24fae60605e9e3192354:

  Linux 6.12-rc3 (2024-10-13 14:33:32 -0700)

are available in the Git repository at:

  [e-mail]:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs tags/vfs-6.13.pidfs

for you to fetch changes up to cdda1f26e74bac732eca537a69f19f6a37b641be:

  pidfd: add ioctl to retrieve pid info (2024-10-24 13:54:51 +0200)

Please consider pulling these changes from the signed vfs-6.13.pidfs tag.

Thanks!
Christian

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vfs-6.13.pidfs

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Luca Boccassi (1):
      pidfd: add ioctl to retrieve pid info

 fs/pidfs.c                                      | 86 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 include/uapi/linux/pidfd.h                      | 50 ++++++++++++++
 tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/pidfd_open_test.c | 82 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 3 files changed, 214 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)