[v3,05/16] pidfs: record exit code and cgroupid at exit

Commit Message

Christian Brauner March 5, 2025, 10:08 a.m. UTC

Record the exit code and cgroupid in release_task() and stash in struct
pidfs_exit_info so it can be retrieved even after the task has been
reaped.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[e-mail]
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <[e-mail]>
---
 fs/internal.h         |  1 +
 fs/libfs.c            |  4 ++--
 fs/pidfs.c            | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/pidfs.h |  1 +
 kernel/exit.c         |  2 ++
 5 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Patch

diff --git a/fs/internal.h b/fs/internal.h
index e7f02ae1e098..c1e6d8b294cb 100644
--- a/fs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/internal.h
@@ -325,6 +325,7 @@  struct stashed_operations {
 int path_from_stashed(struct dentry **stashed, struct vfsmount *mnt, void *data,
 		      struct path *path);
 void stashed_dentry_prune(struct dentry *dentry);
+struct dentry *stashed_dentry_get(struct dentry **stashed);
 /**
  * path_mounted - check whether path is mounted
  * @path: path to check
diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c
index 8444f5cc4064..cf5a267aafe4 100644
--- a/fs/libfs.c
+++ b/fs/libfs.c
@@ -2113,7 +2113,7 @@  struct timespec64 simple_inode_init_ts(struct inode *inode)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_inode_init_ts);
 
-static inline struct dentry *get_stashed_dentry(struct dentry **stashed)
+struct dentry *stashed_dentry_get(struct dentry **stashed)
 {
 	struct dentry *dentry;
 
@@ -2215,7 +2215,7 @@  int path_from_stashed(struct dentry **stashed, struct vfsmount *mnt, void *data,
 	const struct stashed_operations *sops = mnt->mnt_sb->s_fs_info;
 
 	/* See if dentry can be reused. */
-	path->dentry = get_stashed_dentry(stashed);
+	path->dentry = stashed_dentry_get(stashed);
 	if (path->dentry) {
 		sops->put_data(data);
 		goto out_path;
diff --git a/fs/pidfs.c b/fs/pidfs.c
index 282511a36fd9..c4e6527013e7 100644
--- a/fs/pidfs.c
+++ b/fs/pidfs.c
@@ -458,6 +458,47 @@  struct pid *pidfd_pid(const struct file *file)
 	return file_inode(file)->i_private;
 }
 
+/*
+ * We're called from release_task(). We know there's at least one
+ * reference to struct pid being held that won't be released until the
+ * task has been reaped which cannot happen until we're out of
+ * release_task().
+ *
+ * If this struct pid is referred to by a pidfd then
+ * stashed_dentry_get() will return the dentry and inode for that struct
+ * pid. Since we've taken a reference on it there's now an additional
+ * reference from the exit path on it. Which is fine. We're going to put
+ * it again in a second and we know that the pid is kept alive anyway.
+ *
+ * Worst case is that we've filled in the info and immediately free the
+ * dentry and inode afterwards since the pidfd has been closed. Since
+ * pidfs_exit() currently is placed after exit_task_work() we know that
+ * it cannot be us aka the exiting task holding a pidfd to ourselves.
+ */
+void pidfs_exit(struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+	struct dentry *dentry;
+
+	might_sleep();
+
+	dentry = stashed_dentry_get(&task_pid(tsk)->stashed);
+	if (dentry) {
+		struct inode *inode = d_inode(dentry);
+		struct pidfs_exit_info *exit_info = &pidfs_i(inode)->exit_info;
+#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUPS
+		struct cgroup *cgrp;
+
+		rcu_read_lock();
+		cgrp = task_dfl_cgroup(tsk);
+		exit_info->cgroupid = cgroup_id(cgrp);
+		rcu_read_unlock();
+#endif
+		exit_info->exit_code = tsk->exit_code;
+
+		dput(dentry);
+	}
+}
+
 static struct vfsmount *pidfs_mnt __ro_after_init;
 
 /*
diff --git a/include/linux/pidfs.h b/include/linux/pidfs.h
index 7c830d0dec9a..05e6f8f4a026 100644
--- a/include/linux/pidfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/pidfs.h
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@  struct file *pidfs_alloc_file(struct pid *pid, unsigned int flags);
 void __init pidfs_init(void);
 void pidfs_add_pid(struct pid *pid);
 void pidfs_remove_pid(struct pid *pid);
+void pidfs_exit(struct task_struct *tsk);
 extern const struct dentry_operations pidfs_dentry_operations;
 
 #endif /* _LINUX_PID_FS_H */
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 3485e5fc499e..9916305e34d3 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ 
 #include <linux/sysfs.h>
 #include <linux/user_events.h>
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
+#include <linux/pidfs.h>
 
 #include <uapi/linux/wait.h>
 
@@ -249,6 +250,7 @@  void release_task(struct task_struct *p)
 	dec_rlimit_ucounts(task_ucounts(p), UCOUNT_RLIMIT_NPROC, 1);
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 
+	pidfs_exit(p);
 	cgroup_release(p);
 
 	write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock);