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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull pidfd and coredump updates from Christian Brauner:
"Features:
- Expose coredump signal via pidfd
Expose the signal that caused the coredump through the pidfd
interface. The recent changes to rework coredump handling to rely
on unix sockets are in the process of being used in systemd. The
previous systemd coredump container interface requires the coredump
file descriptor and basic information including the signal number
to be sent to the container. This means the signal number needs to
be available before sending the coredump to the container.
- Add supported_mask field to pidfd
Add a new supported_mask field to struct pidfd_info that indicates
which information fields are supported by the running kernel. This
allows userspace to detect feature availability without relying on
error codes or kernel version checks.
Cleanups:
- Drop struct pidfs_exit_info and prepare to drop exit_info pointer,
simplifying the internal publication mechanism for exit and
coredump information retrievable via the pidfd ioctl
- Use guard() for task_lock in pidfs
- Reduce wait_pidfd lock scope
- Add missing PIDFD_INFO_SIZE_VER1 constant
- Add missing BUILD_BUG_ON() assert on struct pidfd_info
Fixes:
- Fix PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP handling
Selftests:
- Split out coredump socket tests and common helpers into separate
files for better organization
- Fix userspace coredump client detection issues
- Handle edge-triggered epoll correctly
- Ignore ENOSPC errors in tests
- Add debug logging to coredump socket tests, socket protocol tests,
and test helpers
- Add tests for PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP_SIGNAL
- Add tests for supported_mask field
- Update pidfd header for selftests"
* tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.coredump' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (23 commits)
pidfs: reduce wait_pidfd lock scope
selftests/coredump: add second PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP_SIGNAL test
selftests/coredump: add first PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP_SIGNAL test
selftests/coredump: ignore ENOSPC errors
selftests/coredump: add debug logging to coredump socket protocol tests
selftests/coredump: add debug logging to coredump socket tests
selftests/coredump: add debug logging to test helpers
selftests/coredump: handle edge-triggered epoll correctly
selftests/coredump: fix userspace coredump client detection
selftests/coredump: fix userspace client detection
selftests/coredump: split out coredump socket tests
selftests/coredump: split out common helpers
selftests/pidfd: add second supported_mask test
selftests/pidfd: add first supported_mask test
selftests/pidfd: update pidfd header
pidfs: expose coredump signal
pidfs: drop struct pidfs_exit_info
pidfs: prepare to drop exit_info pointer
pidfd: add a new supported_mask field
pidfs: add missing BUILD_BUG_ON() assert on struct pidfd_info
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We have reworked namespaces sufficiently that all this special-casing
shouldn't be needed anymore
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251117-eidesstattlich-apotheke-36d2e644079f@brauner
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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There's no need to hold the lock after we realized that pid->attr is
set. We're holding a reference to struct pid so it won't go away and
pidfs_exit() is called once per struct pid.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251105-work-pidfs-wait_pidfd-lock-v1-1-02638783be07@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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While pidfs dentries are never hashed and thus retain_dentry() will never
consider them for placing them on the LRU it isn't great to always have
to go and remember that. Raise DCACHE_DONTCACHE explicitly as a visual
marker that dentries aren't kept but freed immediately instead.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251029-work-namespace-nstree-listns-v4-4-2e6f823ebdc0@kernel.org
Tested-by: syzbot@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Userspace needs access to the signal that caused the coredump before the
coredumping process has been reaped. Expose it as part of the coredump
information in struct pidfd_info. After the process has been reaped that
info is also available as part of PIDFD_INFO_EXIT's exit_code field.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251028-work-coredump-signal-v1-8-ca449b7b7aa0@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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This is not needed anymore now that we have the new scheme to guarantee
all-or-nothing information exposure.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251028-work-coredump-signal-v1-7-ca449b7b7aa0@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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There will likely be more info that we need to store in struct
pidfs_attr. We need to make sure that some of the information such as
exit info or coredump info that consists of multiple bits is either
available completely or not at all, but never partially. Currently we
use a pointer that we assign to. That doesn't scale. We can't waste a
pointer for each mulit-part information struct we want to expose. Use a
bitmask instead.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251028-work-coredump-signal-v1-6-ca449b7b7aa0@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Some of the future fields in struct pidfd_info can be optional. If the
kernel has nothing to emit in that field, then it doesn't set the flag
in the reply. This presents a problem: There is currently no way to know
what mask flags the kernel supports since one can't always count on them
being in the reply.
Add a new PIDFD_INFO_SUPPORTED_MASK flag and field that the kernel can
set in the reply. Userspace can use this to determine if the fields it
requires from the kernel are supported. This also gives us a way to
deprecate fields in the future, if that should become necessary.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251028-work-coredump-signal-v1-5-ca449b7b7aa0@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Validate that the size of struct pidfd_info is correctly updated.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251028-work-coredump-signal-v1-4-ca449b7b7aa0@kernel.org
Fixes: 1d8db6fd698d ("pidfs, coredump: add PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP")
Reviewed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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When PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP is requested we raise it unconditionally in the
returned mask even if no coredump actually did take place. This was
done because we assumed that the later check whether ->coredump_mask as
non-zero detects that it is zero and then retrieves the dumpability
settings from the task's mm. This has issues though becuase there are
tasks that might not have any mm. Also it's just not very cleanly
implemented. Fix this.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251028-work-coredump-signal-v1-2-ca449b7b7aa0@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Use a guard().
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251028-work-coredump-signal-v1-1-ca449b7b7aa0@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull file->f_path constification from Al Viro:
"Only one thing was modifying ->f_path of an opened file - acct(2).
Massaging that away and constifying a bunch of struct path * arguments
in functions that might be given &file->f_path ends up with the
situation where we can turn ->f_path into an anon union of const
struct path f_path and struct path __f_path, the latter modified only
in a few places in fs/{file_table,open,namei}.c, all for struct file
instances that are yet to be opened"
* tag 'pull-f_path' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (23 commits)
Have cc(1) catch attempts to modify ->f_path
kernel/acct.c: saner struct file treatment
configfs:get_target() - release path as soon as we grab configfs_item reference
apparmor/af_unix: constify struct path * arguments
ovl_is_real_file: constify realpath argument
ovl_sync_file(): constify path argument
ovl_lower_dir(): constify path argument
ovl_get_verity_digest(): constify path argument
ovl_validate_verity(): constify {meta,data}path arguments
ovl_ensure_verity_loaded(): constify datapath argument
ksmbd_vfs_set_init_posix_acl(): constify path argument
ksmbd_vfs_inherit_posix_acl(): constify path argument
ksmbd_vfs_kern_path_unlock(): constify path argument
ksmbd_vfs_path_lookup_locked(): root_share_path can be const struct path *
check_export(): constify path argument
export_operations->open(): constify path argument
rqst_exp_get_by_name(): constify path argument
nfs: constify path argument of __vfs_getattr()
bpf...d_path(): constify path argument
done_path_create(): constify path argument
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "mm, swap: improve cluster scan strategy" from Kairui Song improves
performance and reduces the failure rate of swap cluster allocation
- "support large align and nid in Rust allocators" from Vitaly Wool
permits Rust allocators to set NUMA node and large alignment when
perforning slub and vmalloc reallocs
- "mm/damon/vaddr: support stat-purpose DAMOS" from Yueyang Pan extend
DAMOS_STAT's handling of the DAMON operations sets for virtual
address spaces for ops-level DAMOS filters
- "execute PROCMAP_QUERY ioctl under per-vma lock" from Suren
Baghdasaryan reduces mmap_lock contention during reads of
/proc/pid/maps
- "mm/mincore: minor clean up for swap cache checking" from Kairui Song
performs some cleanup in the swap code
- "mm: vm_normal_page*() improvements" from David Hildenbrand provides
code cleanup in the pagemap code
- "add persistent huge zero folio support" from Pankaj Raghav provides
a block layer speedup by optionalls making the
huge_zero_pagepersistent, instead of releasing it when its refcount
falls to zero
- "kho: fixes and cleanups" from Mike Rapoport adds a few touchups to
the recently added Kexec Handover feature
- "mm: make mm->flags a bitmap and 64-bit on all arches" from Lorenzo
Stoakes turns mm_struct.flags into a bitmap. To end the constant
struggle with space shortage on 32-bit conflicting with 64-bit's
needs
- "mm/swapfile.c and swap.h cleanup" from Chris Li cleans up some swap
code
- "selftests/mm: Fix false positives and skip unsupported tests" from
Donet Tom fixes a few things in our selftests code
- "prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to only provide THPs when advised"
from David Hildenbrand "allows individual processes to opt-out of
THP=always into THP=madvise, without affecting other workloads on the
system".
It's a long story - the [1/N] changelog spells out the considerations
- "Add and use memdesc_flags_t" from Matthew Wilcox gets us started on
the memdesc project. Please see
https://kernelnewbies.org/MatthewWilcox/Memdescs and
https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/introducing-memdesc
- "Tiny optimization for large read operations" from Chi Zhiling
improves the efficiency of the pagecache read path
- "Better split_huge_page_test result check" from Zi Yan improves our
folio splitting selftest code
- "test that rmap behaves as expected" from Wei Yang adds some rmap
selftests
- "remove write_cache_pages()" from Christoph Hellwig removes that
function and converts its two remaining callers
- "selftests/mm: uffd-stress fixes" from Dev Jain fixes some UFFD
selftests issues
- "introduce kernel file mapped folios" from Boris Burkov introduces
the concept of "kernel file pages". Using these permits btrfs to
account its metadata pages to the root cgroup, rather than to the
cgroups of random inappropriate tasks
- "mm/pageblock: improve readability of some pageblock handling" from
Wei Yang provides some readability improvements to the page allocator
code
- "mm/damon: support ARM32 with LPAE" from SeongJae Park teaches DAMON
to understand arm32 highmem
- "tools: testing: Use existing atomic.h for vma/maple tests" from
Brendan Jackman performs some code cleanups and deduplication under
tools/testing/
- "maple_tree: Fix testing for 32bit compiles" from Liam Howlett fixes
a couple of 32-bit issues in tools/testing/radix-tree.c
- "kasan: unify kasan_enabled() and remove arch-specific
implementations" from Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov moves KASAN arch-specific
initialization code into a common arch-neutral implementation
- "mm: remove zpool" from Johannes Weiner removes zspool - an
indirection layer which now only redirects to a single thing
(zsmalloc)
- "mm: task_stack: Stack handling cleanups" from Pasha Tatashin makes a
couple of cleanups in the fork code
- "mm: remove nth_page()" from David Hildenbrand makes rather a lot of
adjustments at various nth_page() callsites, eventually permitting
the removal of that undesirable helper function
- "introduce kasan.write_only option in hw-tags" from Yeoreum Yun
creates a KASAN read-only mode for ARM, using that architecture's
memory tagging feature. It is felt that a read-only mode KASAN is
suitable for use in production systems rather than debug-only
- "mm: hugetlb: cleanup hugetlb folio allocation" from Kefeng Wang does
some tidying in the hugetlb folio allocation code
- "mm: establish const-correctness for pointer parameters" from Max
Kellermann makes quite a number of the MM API functions more accurate
about the constness of their arguments. This was getting in the way
of subsystems (in this case CEPH) when they attempt to improving
their own const/non-const accuracy
- "Cleanup free_pages() misuse" from Vishal Moola fixes a number of
code sites which were confused over when to use free_pages() vs
__free_pages()
- "Add Rust abstraction for Maple Trees" from Alice Ryhl makes the
mapletree code accessible to Rust. Required by nouveau and by its
forthcoming successor: the new Rust Nova driver
- "selftests/mm: split_huge_page_test: split_pte_mapped_thp
improvements" from David Hildenbrand adds a fix and some cleanups to
the thp selftesting code
- "mm, swap: introduce swap table as swap cache (phase I)" from Chris
Li and Kairui Song is the first step along the path to implementing
"swap tables" - a new approach to swap allocation and state tracking
which is expected to yield speed and space improvements. This
patchset itself yields a 5-20% performance benefit in some situations
- "Some ptdesc cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox utilizes the new memdesc
layer to clean up the ptdesc code a little
- "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure" from Chunyu Hu fixes some
issues in our 5-level pagetable selftesting code
- "Minor fixes for memory allocation profiling" from Suren Baghdasaryan
addresses a couple of minor issues in relatively new memory
allocation profiling feature
- "Small cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox has a few cleanups in
preparation for more memdesc work
- "mm/damon: add addr_unit for DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" from
Quanmin Yan makes some changes to DAMON in furtherance of supporting
arm highmem
- "selftests/mm: Add -Wunreachable-code and fix warnings" from Muhammad
Anjum adds that compiler check to selftests code and fixes the
fallout, by removing dead code
- "Improvements to Victim Process Thawing and OOM Reaper Traversal
Order" from zhongjinji makes a number of improvements in the OOM
killer: mainly thawing a more appropriate group of victim threads so
they can release resources
- "mm/damon: misc fixups and improvements for 6.18" from SeongJae Park
is a bunch of small and unrelated fixups for DAMON
- "mm/damon: define and use DAMON initialization check function" from
SeongJae Park implement reliability and maintainability improvements
to a recently-added bug fix
- "mm/damon/stat: expose auto-tuned intervals and non-idle ages" from
SeongJae Park provides additional transparency to userspace clients
of the DAMON_STAT information
- "Expand scope of khugepaged anonymous collapse" from Dev Jain removes
some constraints on khubepaged's collapsing of anon VMAs. It also
increases the success rate of MADV_COLLAPSE against an anon vma
- "mm: do not assume file == vma->vm_file in compat_vma_mmap_prepare()"
from Lorenzo Stoakes moves us further towards removal of
file_operations.mmap(). This patchset concentrates upon clearing up
the treatment of stacked filesystems
- "mm: Improve mlock tracking for large folios" from Kiryl Shutsemau
provides some fixes and improvements to mlock's tracking of large
folios. /proc/meminfo's "Mlocked" field became more accurate
- "mm/ksm: Fix incorrect accounting of KSM counters during fork" from
Donet Tom fixes several user-visible KSM stats inaccuracies across
forks and adds selftest code to verify these counters
- "mm_slot: fix the usage of mm_slot_entry" from Wei Yang addresses
some potential but presently benign issues in KSM's mm_slot handling
* tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (372 commits)
mm: swap: check for stable address space before operating on the VMA
mm: convert folio_page() back to a macro
mm/khugepaged: use start_addr/addr for improved readability
hugetlbfs: skip VMAs without shareable locks in hugetlb_vmdelete_list
alloc_tag: fix boot failure due to NULL pointer dereference
mm: silence data-race in update_hiwater_rss
mm/memory-failure: don't select MEMORY_ISOLATION
mm/khugepaged: remove definition of struct khugepaged_mm_slot
mm/ksm: get mm_slot by mm_slot_entry() when slot is !NULL
hugetlb: increase number of reserving hugepages via cmdline
selftests/mm: add fork inheritance test for ksm_merging_pages counter
mm/ksm: fix incorrect KSM counter handling in mm_struct during fork
drivers/base/node: fix double free in register_one_node()
mm: remove PMD alignment constraint in execmem_vmalloc()
mm/memory_hotplug: fix typo 'esecially' -> 'especially'
mm/rmap: improve mlock tracking for large folios
mm/filemap: map entire large folio faultaround
mm/fault: try to map the entire file folio in finish_fault()
mm/rmap: mlock large folios in try_to_unmap_one()
mm/rmap: fix a mlock race condition in folio_referenced_one()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull namespace updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains a larger set of changes around the generic namespace
infrastructure of the kernel.
Each specific namespace type (net, cgroup, mnt, ...) embedds a struct
ns_common which carries the reference count of the namespace and so
on.
We open-coded and cargo-culted so many quirks for each namespace type
that it just wasn't scalable anymore. So given there's a bunch of new
changes coming in that area I've started cleaning all of this up.
The core change is to make it possible to correctly initialize every
namespace uniformly and derive the correct initialization settings
from the type of the namespace such as namespace operations, namespace
type and so on. This leaves the new ns_common_init() function with a
single parameter which is the specific namespace type which derives
the correct parameters statically. This also means the compiler will
yell as soon as someone does something remotely fishy.
The ns_common_init() addition also allows us to remove ns_alloc_inum()
and drops any special-casing of the initial network namespace in the
network namespace initialization code that Linus complained about.
Another part is reworking the reference counting. The reference
counting was open-coded and copy-pasted for each namespace type even
though they all followed the same rules. This also removes all open
accesses to the reference count and makes it private and only uses a
very small set of dedicated helpers to manipulate them just like we do
for e.g., files.
In addition this generalizes the mount namespace iteration
infrastructure introduced a few cycles ago. As reminder, the vfs makes
it possible to iterate sequentially and bidirectionally through all
mount namespaces on the system or all mount namespaces that the caller
holds privilege over. This allow userspace to iterate over all mounts
in all mount namespaces using the listmount() and statmount() system
call.
Each mount namespace has a unique identifier for the lifetime of the
systems that is exposed to userspace. The network namespace also has a
unique identifier working exactly the same way. This extends the
concept to all other namespace types.
The new nstree type makes it possible to lookup namespaces purely by
their identifier and to walk the namespace list sequentially and
bidirectionally for all namespace types, allowing userspace to iterate
through all namespaces. Looking up namespaces in the namespace tree
works completely locklessly.
This also means we can move the mount namespace onto the generic
infrastructure and remove a bunch of code and members from struct
mnt_namespace itself.
There's a bunch of stuff coming on top of this in the future but for
now this uses the generic namespace tree to extend a concept
introduced first for pidfs a few cycles ago. For a while now we have
supported pidfs file handles for pidfds. This has proven to be very
useful.
This extends the concept to cover namespaces as well. It is possible
to encode and decode namespace file handles using the common
name_to_handle_at() and open_by_handle_at() apis.
As with pidfs file handles, namespace file handles are exhaustive,
meaning it is not required to actually hold a reference to nsfs in
able to decode aka open_by_handle_at() a namespace file handle.
Instead the FD_NSFS_ROOT constant can be passed which will let the
kernel grab a reference to the root of nsfs internally and thus decode
the file handle.
Namespaces file descriptors can already be derived from pidfds which
means they aren't subject to overmount protection bugs. IOW, it's
irrelevant if the caller would not have access to an appropriate
/proc/<pid>/ns/ directory as they could always just derive the
namespace based on a pidfd already.
It has the same advantage as pidfds. It's possible to reliably and for
the lifetime of the system refer to a namespace without pinning any
resources and to compare them trivially.
Permission checking is kept simple. If the caller is located in the
namespace the file handle refers to they are able to open it otherwise
they must hold privilege over the owning namespace of the relevant
namespace.
The namespace file handle layout is exposed as uapi and has a stable
and extensible format. For now it simply contains the namespace
identifier, the namespace type, and the inode number. The stable
format means that userspace may construct its own namespace file
handles without going through name_to_handle_at() as they are already
allowed for pidfs and cgroup file handles"
* tag 'namespace-6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (65 commits)
ns: drop assert
ns: move ns type into struct ns_common
nstree: make struct ns_tree private
ns: add ns_debug()
ns: simplify ns_common_init() further
cgroup: add missing ns_common include
ns: use inode initializer for initial namespaces
selftests/namespaces: verify initial namespace inode numbers
ns: rename to __ns_ref
nsfs: port to ns_ref_*() helpers
net: port to ns_ref_*() helpers
uts: port to ns_ref_*() helpers
ipv4: use check_net()
net: use check_net()
net-sysfs: use check_net()
user: port to ns_ref_*() helpers
time: port to ns_ref_*() helpers
pid: port to ns_ref_*() helpers
ipc: port to ns_ref_*() helpers
cgroup: port to ns_ref_*() helpers
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains the usual selections of misc updates for this cycle.
Features:
- Add "initramfs_options" parameter to set initramfs mount options.
This allows to add specific mount options to the rootfs to e.g.,
limit the memory size
- Add RWF_NOSIGNAL flag for pwritev2()
Add RWF_NOSIGNAL flag for pwritev2. This flag prevents the SIGPIPE
signal from being raised when writing on disconnected pipes or
sockets. The flag is handled directly by the pipe filesystem and
converted to the existing MSG_NOSIGNAL flag for sockets
- Allow to pass pid namespace as procfs mount option
Ever since the introduction of pid namespaces, procfs has had very
implicit behaviour surrounding them (the pidns used by a procfs
mount is auto-selected based on the mounting process's active
pidns, and the pidns itself is basically hidden once the mount has
been constructed)
This implicit behaviour has historically meant that userspace was
required to do some special dances in order to configure the pidns
of a procfs mount as desired. Examples include:
* In order to bypass the mnt_too_revealing() check, Kubernetes
creates a procfs mount from an empty pidns so that user
namespaced containers can be nested (without this, the nested
containers would fail to mount procfs)
But this requires forking off a helper process because you cannot
just one-shot this using mount(2)
* Container runtimes in general need to fork into a container
before configuring its mounts, which can lead to security issues
in the case of shared-pidns containers (a privileged process in
the pidns can interact with your container runtime process)
While SUID_DUMP_DISABLE and user namespaces make this less of an
issue, the strict need for this due to a minor uAPI wart is kind
of unfortunate
Things would be much easier if there was a way for userspace to
just specify the pidns they want. So this pull request contains
changes to implement a new "pidns" argument which can be set
using fsconfig(2):
fsconfig(procfd, FSCONFIG_SET_FD, "pidns", NULL, nsfd);
fsconfig(procfd, FSCONFIG_SET_STRING, "pidns", "/proc/self/ns/pid", 0);
or classic mount(2) / mount(8):
// mount -t proc -o pidns=/proc/self/ns/pid proc /tmp/proc
mount("proc", "/tmp/proc", "proc", MS_..., "pidns=/proc/self/ns/pid");
Cleanups:
- Remove the last references to EXPORT_OP_ASYNC_LOCK
- Make file_remove_privs_flags() static
- Remove redundant __GFP_NOWARN when GFP_NOWAIT is used
- Use try_cmpxchg() in start_dir_add()
- Use try_cmpxchg() in sb_init_done_wq()
- Replace offsetof() with struct_size() in ioctl_file_dedupe_range()
- Remove vfs_ioctl() export
- Replace rwlock() with spinlock in epoll code as rwlock causes
priority inversion on preempt rt kernels
- Make ns_entries in fs/proc/namespaces const
- Use a switch() statement() in init_special_inode() just like we do
in may_open()
- Use struct_size() in dir_add() in the initramfs code
- Use str_plural() in rd_load_image()
- Replace strcpy() with strscpy() in find_link()
- Rename generic_delete_inode() to inode_just_drop() and
generic_drop_inode() to inode_generic_drop()
- Remove unused arguments from fcntl_{g,s}et_rw_hint()
Fixes:
- Document @name parameter for name_contains_dotdot() helper
- Fix spelling mistake
- Always return zero from replace_fd() instead of the file descriptor
number
- Limit the size for copy_file_range() in compat mode to prevent a
signed overflow
- Fix debugfs mount options not being applied
- Verify the inode mode when loading it from disk in minixfs
- Verify the inode mode when loading it from disk in cramfs
- Don't trigger automounts with RESOLVE_NO_XDEV
If openat2() was called with RESOLVE_NO_XDEV it didn't traverse
through automounts, but could still trigger them
- Add FL_RECLAIM flag to show_fl_flags() macro so it appears in
tracepoints
- Fix unused variable warning in rd_load_image() on s390
- Make INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME depend on BLK_DEV_INITRD
- Use ns_capable_noaudit() when determining net sysctl permissions
- Don't call path_put() under namespace semaphore in listmount() and
statmount()"
* tag 'vfs-6.18-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (38 commits)
fcntl: trim arguments
listmount: don't call path_put() under namespace semaphore
statmount: don't call path_put() under namespace semaphore
pid: use ns_capable_noaudit() when determining net sysctl permissions
fs: rename generic_delete_inode() and generic_drop_inode()
init: INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME should depend on BLK_DEV_INITRD
initramfs: Replace strcpy() with strscpy() in find_link()
initrd: Use str_plural() in rd_load_image()
initramfs: Use struct_size() helper to improve dir_add()
initrd: Fix unused variable warning in rd_load_image() on s390
fs: use the switch statement in init_special_inode()
fs/proc/namespaces: make ns_entries const
filelock: add FL_RECLAIM to show_fl_flags() macro
eventpoll: Replace rwlock with spinlock
selftests/proc: add tests for new pidns APIs
procfs: add "pidns" mount option
pidns: move is-ancestor logic to helper
openat2: don't trigger automounts with RESOLVE_NO_XDEV
namei: move cross-device check to __traverse_mounts
namei: remove LOOKUP_NO_XDEV check from handle_mounts
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Bring in the fix for removing a mount namespace from the mount namespace
rbtree and list.
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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for the method and its sole instance...
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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generic_delete_inode() is rather misleading for what the routine is
doing. inode_just_drop() should be much clearer.
The new naming is inconsistent with generic_drop_inode(), so rename that
one as well with inode_ as the suffix.
No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Validate extensible ioctls stricter than we do now.
Reviewed-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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The coredump logic is slightly different from other users in that it both
stores mm flags and additionally sets and gets using masks.
Since the MMF_DUMPABLE_* flags must remain as they are for uABI reasons,
and of course these are within the first 32-bits of the flags, it is
reasonable to provide access to these in the same fashion so this logic
can all still keep working as it has been.
Therefore, introduce coredump-specific helpers __mm_flags_get_dumpable()
and __mm_flags_set_mask_dumpable() for this purpose, and update all core
dump users of mm flags to use these.
[lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com: abstract set_mask_bits() invocation to mm_types.h to satisfy ARC]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0e7ad263-1ff7-446d-81fe-97cff9c0e7ed@lucifer.local
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2a5075f7e3c5b367d988178c79a3063d12ee53a9.1755012943.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Marc Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Namhyung kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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After running the program 'ioctl_pidfd03' of Linux Test Project (LTP) or
the program 'pidfd_info_test' in 'tools/testing/selftests/pidfd' of the
kernel source, kmemleak reports the following memory leaks:
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
unreferenced object 0xff110020e5988000 (size 8216):
comm "ioctl_pidfd03", pid 10853, jiffies 4294800031
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
02 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .@..............
00 00 00 00 af 01 00 00 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace (crc 69483047):
kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0x2fb/0x410
copy_process+0x178/0x1740
kernel_clone+0x99/0x3b0
__do_sys_clone3+0xbe/0x100
do_syscall_64+0x7b/0x2c0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
...
unreferenced object 0xff11002097b70000 (size 8216):
comm "pidfd_info_test", pid 11840, jiffies 4294889165
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
06 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .@..............
00 00 00 00 b5 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace (crc a6286bb7):
kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0x2fb/0x410
copy_process+0x178/0x1740
kernel_clone+0x99/0x3b0
__do_sys_clone3+0xbe/0x100
do_syscall_64+0x7b/0x2c0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
...
The leak occurs because pidfd_info() obtains a task_struct via
get_pid_task() but never calls put_task_struct() to drop the reference,
leaving task->usage unbalanced.
Fix the issue by adding '__free(put_task) = NULL' to the local variable
'task', ensuring that put_task_struct() is automatically invoked when
the variable goes out of scope.
Fixes: 7477d7dce48a ("pidfs: allow to retrieve exit information")
Signed-off-by: Adrian Huang (Lenovo) <adrianhuang0701@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250814094453.15232-1-adrianhuang0701@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull pidfs updates from Christian Brauner:
- persistent info
Persist exit and coredump information independent of whether anyone
currently holds a pidfd for the struct pid.
The current scheme allocated pidfs dentries on-demand repeatedly.
This scheme is reaching it's limits as it makes it impossible to pin
information that needs to be available after the task has exited or
coredumped and that should not be lost simply because the pidfd got
closed temporarily. The next opener should still see the stashed
information.
This is also a prerequisite for supporting extended attributes on
pidfds to allow attaching meta information to them.
If someone opens a pidfd for a struct pid a pidfs dentry is allocated
and stashed in pid->stashed. Once the last pidfd for the struct pid
is closed the pidfs dentry is released and removed from pid->stashed.
So if 10 callers create a pidfs dentry for the same struct pid
sequentially, i.e., each closing the pidfd before the other creates a
new one then a new pidfs dentry is allocated every time.
Because multiple tasks acquiring and releasing a pidfd for the same
struct pid can race with each another a task may still find a valid
pidfs entry from the previous task in pid->stashed and reuse it. Or
it might find a dead dentry in there and fail to reuse it and so
stashes a new pidfs dentry. Multiple tasks may race to stash a new
pidfs dentry but only one will succeed, the other ones will put their
dentry.
The current scheme aims to ensure that a pidfs dentry for a struct
pid can only be created if the task is still alive or if a pidfs
dentry already existed before the task was reaped and so exit
information has been was stashed in the pidfs inode.
That's great except that it's buggy. If a pidfs dentry is stashed in
pid->stashed after pidfs_exit() but before __unhash_process() is
called we will return a pidfd for a reaped task without exit
information being available.
The pidfds_pid_valid() check does not guard against this race as it
doens't sync at all with pidfs_exit(). The pid_has_task() check might
be successful simply because we're before __unhash_process() but
after pidfs_exit().
Introduce a new scheme where the lifetime of information associated
with a pidfs entry (coredump and exit information) isn't bound to the
lifetime of the pidfs inode but the struct pid itself.
The first time a pidfs dentry is allocated for a struct pid a struct
pidfs_attr will be allocated which will be used to store exit and
coredump information.
If all pidfs for the pidfs dentry are closed the dentry and inode can
be cleaned up but the struct pidfs_attr will stick until the struct
pid itself is freed. This will ensure minimal memory usage while
persisting relevant information.
The new scheme has various advantages. First, it allows to close the
race where we end up handing out a pidfd for a reaped task for which
no exit information is available. Second, it minimizes memory usage.
Third, it allows to remove complex lifetime tracking via dentries
when registering a struct pid with pidfs. There's no need to get or
put a reference. Instead, the lifetime of exit and coredump
information associated with a struct pid is bound to the lifetime of
struct pid itself.
- extended attributes
Now that we have a way to persist information for pidfs dentries we
can start supporting extended attributes on pidfds. This will allow
userspace to attach meta information to tasks.
One natural extension would be to introduce a custom pidfs.* extended
attribute space and allow for the inheritance of extended attributes
across fork() and exec().
The first simple scheme will allow privileged userspace to set
trusted extended attributes on pidfs inodes.
- Allow autonomous pidfs file handles
Various filesystems such as pidfs and drm support opening file
handles without having to require a file descriptor to identify the
filesystem. The filesystem are global single instances and can be
trivially identified solely on the information encoded in the file
handle.
This makes it possible to not have to keep or acquire a sentinal file
descriptor just to pass it to open_by_handle_at() to identify the
filesystem. That's especially useful when such sentinel file
descriptor cannot or should not be acquired.
For pidfs this means a file handle can function as full replacement
for storing a pid in a file. Instead a file handle can be stored and
reopened purely based on the file handle.
Such autonomous file handles can be opened with or without specifying
a a file descriptor. If no proper file descriptor is used the
FD_PIDFS_ROOT sentinel must be passed. This allows us to define
further special negative fd sentinels in the future.
Userspace can trivially test for support by trying to open the file
handle with an invalid file descriptor.
- Allow pidfds for reaped tasks with SCM_PIDFD messages
This is a logical continuation of the earlier work to create pidfds
for reaped tasks through the SO_PEERPIDFD socket option merged in
923ea4d4482b ("Merge patch series "net, pidfs: enable handing out
pidfds for reaped sk->sk_peer_pid"").
- Two minor fixes:
* Fold fs_struct->{lock,seq} into a seqlock
* Don't bother with path_{get,put}() in unix_open_file()
* tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.pidfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (37 commits)
don't bother with path_get()/path_put() in unix_open_file()
fold fs_struct->{lock,seq} into a seqlock
selftests: net: extend SCM_PIDFD test to cover stale pidfds
af_unix: enable handing out pidfds for reaped tasks in SCM_PIDFD
af_unix: stash pidfs dentry when needed
af_unix/scm: fix whitespace errors
af_unix: introduce and use scm_replace_pid() helper
af_unix: introduce unix_skb_to_scm helper
af_unix: rework unix_maybe_add_creds() to allow sleep
selftests/pidfd: decode pidfd file handles withou having to specify an fd
fhandle, pidfs: support open_by_handle_at() purely based on file handle
uapi/fcntl: add FD_PIDFS_ROOT
uapi/fcntl: add FD_INVALID
fcntl/pidfd: redefine PIDFD_SELF_THREAD_GROUP
uapi/fcntl: mark range as reserved
fhandle: reflow get_path_anchor()
pidfs: add pidfs_root_path() helper
fhandle: rename to get_path_anchor()
fhandle: hoist copy_from_user() above get_path_from_fd()
fhandle: raise FILEID_IS_DIR in handle_type
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In Commit 1d8db6fd698de1f73b1a7d72aea578fdd18d9a87 ("pidfs,
coredump: add PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP"), the following code was added:
if (mask & PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP) {
kinfo.mask |= PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP;
kinfo.coredump_mask = READ_ONCE(pidfs_i(inode)->__pei.coredump_mask);
}
[...]
if (!(kinfo.mask & PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP)) {
task_lock(task);
if (task->mm)
kinfo.coredump_mask = pidfs_coredump_mask(task->mm->flags);
task_unlock(task);
}
The second bit in particular looks off to me - the condition in essence
checks whether PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP was **not** requested, and if so
fetches the coredump_mask in kinfo, since it's checking !(kinfo.mask &
PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP), which is unconditionally set in the earlier hunk.
I'm tempted to assume the idea in the second hunk was to calculate the
coredump mask if one was requested but fetched in the first hunk, in
which case the check should be
if ((kinfo.mask & PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP) && !(kinfo.coredump_mask))
which might be more legibly written as
if ((mask & PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP) && !(kinfo.coredump_mask))
This could also instead be achieved by changing the first hunk to be:
if (mask & PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP) {
kinfo.coredump_mask = READ_ONCE(pidfs_i(inode)->__pei.coredump_mask);
if (kinfo.coredump_mask)
kinfo.mask |= PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP;
}
and the second hunk to:
if ((mask & PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP) && !(kinfo.mask & PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP)) {
task_lock(task);
if (task->mm) {
kinfo.coredump_mask = pidfs_coredump_mask(task->mm->flags);
kinfo.mask |= PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP;
}
task_unlock(task);
}
However, when looking at this, the supposition that the second hunk
means to cover cases where the coredump info was requested but the first
hunk failed to get it starts getting doubtful, so apologies if I'm
completely off-base.
This patch addresses the issue by fixing the check in the second hunk.
Signed-off-by: Laura Brehm <laurabrehm@hey.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250703120244.96908-3-laurabrehm@hey.com
Cc: brauner@kernel.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Allow to return the root of the global pidfs filesystem.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250624-work-pidfs-fhandle-v2-4-d02a04858fe3@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Ensure that we handle the case where task creation fails and pid->attr
was never accessed at all.
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Allow to catch some obvious bugs.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250618-work-pidfs-persistent-v2-16-98f3456fd552@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Now that we have a way to persist information for pidfs dentries we can
start supporting extended attributes on pidfds. This will allow
userspace to attach meta information to tasks.
One natural extension would be to introduce a custom pidfs.* extended
attribute space and allow for the inheritance of extended attributes
across fork() and exec().
The first simple scheme will allow privileged userspace to set trusted
extended attributes on pidfs inodes.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250618-work-pidfs-persistent-v2-12-98f3456fd552@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Prepare for allowing extended attributes to be set on pidfd inodes by
allowing them to be mutable.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250618-work-pidfs-persistent-v2-11-98f3456fd552@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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The validation is now completely handled in path_from_stashed().
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250618-work-pidfs-persistent-v2-9-98f3456fd552@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Now that we stash persistent information in struct pid there's no need
to play volatile games with pinning struct pid via dentries in pidfs.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250618-work-pidfs-persistent-v2-8-98f3456fd552@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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We don't need it anymore as persistent information is allocated lazily
and stashed in struct pid.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250618-work-pidfs-persistent-v2-7-98f3456fd552@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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We've moved persistent information to struct pid.
So there's no need for these anymore.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250618-work-pidfs-persistent-v2-6-98f3456fd552@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Persist exit and coredump information independent of whether anyone
currently holds a pidfd for the struct pid.
The current scheme allocated pidfs dentries on-demand repeatedly.
This scheme is reaching it's limits as it makes it impossible to pin
information that needs to be available after the task has exited or
coredumped and that should not be lost simply because the pidfd got
closed temporarily. The next opener should still see the stashed
information.
This is also a prerequisite for supporting extended attributes on
pidfds to allow attaching meta information to them.
If someone opens a pidfd for a struct pid a pidfs dentry is allocated
and stashed in pid->stashed. Once the last pidfd for the struct pid is
closed the pidfs dentry is released and removed from pid->stashed.
So if 10 callers create a pidfs dentry for the same struct pid
sequentially, i.e., each closing the pidfd before the other creates a
new one then a new pidfs dentry is allocated every time.
Because multiple tasks acquiring and releasing a pidfd for the same
struct pid can race with each another a task may still find a valid
pidfs entry from the previous task in pid->stashed and reuse it. Or it
might find a dead dentry in there and fail to reuse it and so stashes a
new pidfs dentry. Multiple tasks may race to stash a new pidfs dentry
but only one will succeed, the other ones will put their dentry.
The current scheme aims to ensure that a pidfs dentry for a struct pid
can only be created if the task is still alive or if a pidfs dentry
already existed before the task was reaped and so exit information has
been was stashed in the pidfs inode.
That's great except that it's buggy. If a pidfs dentry is stashed in
pid->stashed after pidfs_exit() but before __unhash_process() is called
we will return a pidfd for a reaped task without exit information being
available.
The pidfds_pid_valid() check does not guard against this race as it
doens't sync at all with pidfs_exit(). The pid_has_task() check might be
successful simply because we're before __unhash_process() but after
pidfs_exit().
Introduce a new scheme where the lifetime of information associated with
a pidfs entry (coredump and exit information) isn't bound to the
lifetime of the pidfs inode but the struct pid itself.
The first time a pidfs dentry is allocated for a struct pid a struct
pidfs_attr will be allocated which will be used to store exit and
coredump information.
If all pidfs for the pidfs dentry are closed the dentry and inode can be
cleaned up but the struct pidfs_attr will stick until the struct pid
itself is freed. This will ensure minimal memory usage while persisting
relevant information.
The new scheme has various advantages. First, it allows to close the
race where we end up handing out a pidfd for a reaped task for which no
exit information is available. Second, it minimizes memory usage.
Third, it allows to remove complex lifetime tracking via dentries when
registering a struct pid with pidfs. There's no need to get or put a
reference. Instead, the lifetime of exit and coredump information
associated with a struct pid is bound to the lifetime of struct pid
itself.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250618-work-pidfs-persistent-v2-5-98f3456fd552@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Similar to commit 1ed95281c0c7 ("anon_inode: raise SB_I_NODEV and SB_I_NOEXEC"):
it shouldn't be possible to execute pidfds via
execveat(fd_anon_inode, "", NULL, NULL, AT_EMPTY_PATH)
so raise SB_I_NOEXEC so that no one gets any creative ideas.
Also raise SB_I_NODEV as we don't expect or support any devices on pidfs.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250618-work-pidfs-persistent-v2-1-98f3456fd552@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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In systemd we spotted an issue after switching to ioctl(PIDFD_GET_INFO)
for obtaining pid number the pidfd refers to, that for processes
with a parent from outer pidns PIDFD_GET_INFO unexpectedly yields
-ESRCH [1]. It turned out that there's an arbitrary check blocking
this, which is not really sensible given getppid() happily returns
0 for such processes. Just drop the spurious check and userspace
ought to handle ppid == 0 properly everywhere.
[1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/37715
Fixes: cdda1f26e74b ("pidfd: add ioctl to retrieve pid info")
Signed-off-by: Mike Yuan <me@yhndnzj.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250604150238.42664-1-me@yhndnzj.com
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull coredump updates from Christian Brauner:
"This adds support for sending coredumps over an AF_UNIX socket. It
also makes (implicit) use of the new SO_PEERPIDFD ability to hand out
pidfds for reaped peer tasks
The new coredump socket will allow userspace to not have to rely on
usermode helpers for processing coredumps and provides a saf way to
handle them instead of relying on super privileged coredumping helpers
This will also be significantly more lightweight since the kernel
doens't have to do a fork()+exec() for each crashing process to spawn
a usermodehelper. Instead the kernel just connects to the AF_UNIX
socket and userspace can process it concurrently however it sees fit.
Support for userspace is incoming starting with systemd-coredump
There's more work coming in that direction next cycle. The rest below
goes into some details and background
Coredumping currently supports two modes:
(1) Dumping directly into a file somewhere on the filesystem.
(2) Dumping into a pipe connected to a usermode helper process
spawned as a child of the system_unbound_wq or kthreadd
For simplicity I'm mostly ignoring (1). There's probably still some
users of (1) out there but processing coredumps in this way can be
considered adventurous especially in the face of set*id binaries
The most common option should be (2) by now. It works by allowing
userspace to put a string into /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern like:
|/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-coredump %P %u %g %s %t %c %h
The "|" at the beginning indicates to the kernel that a pipe must be
used. The path following the pipe indicator is a path to a binary that
will be spawned as a usermode helper process. Any additional
parameters pass information about the task that is generating the
coredump to the binary that processes the coredump
In the example the core_pattern shown causes the kernel to spawn
systemd-coredump as a usermode helper. There's various conceptual
consequences of this (non-exhaustive list):
- systemd-coredump is spawned with file descriptor number 0 (stdin)
connected to the read-end of the pipe. All other file descriptors
are closed. That specifically includes 1 (stdout) and 2 (stderr).
This has already caused bugs because userspace assumed that this
cannot happen (Whether or not this is a sane assumption is
irrelevant)
- systemd-coredump will be spawned as a child of system_unbound_wq.
So it is not a child of any userspace process and specifically not
a child of PID 1. It cannot be waited upon and is in a weird hybrid
upcall which are difficult for userspace to control correctly
- systemd-coredump is spawned with full kernel privileges. This
necessitates all kinds of weird privilege dropping excercises in
userspace to make this safe
- A new usermode helper has to be spawned for each crashing process
This adds a new mode:
(3) Dumping into an AF_UNIX socket
Userspace can set /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern to:
@/path/to/coredump.socket
The "@" at the beginning indicates to the kernel that an AF_UNIX
coredump socket will be used to process coredumps
The coredump socket must be located in the initial mount namespace.
When a task coredumps it opens a client socket in the initial network
namespace and connects to the coredump socket:
- The coredump server uses SO_PEERPIDFD to get a stable handle on the
connected crashing task. The retrieved pidfd will provide a stable
reference even if the crashing task gets SIGKILLed while generating
the coredump. That is a huge attack vector right now
- By setting core_pipe_limit non-zero userspace can guarantee that
the crashing task cannot be reaped behind it's back and thus
process all necessary information in /proc/<pid>. The SO_PEERPIDFD
can be used to detect whether /proc/<pid> still refers to the same
process
The core_pipe_limit isn't used to rate-limit connections to the
socket. This can simply be done via AF_UNIX socket directly
- The pidfd for the crashing task will contain information how the
task coredumps. The PIDFD_GET_INFO ioctl gained a new flag
PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP which can be used to retreive the coredump
information
If the coredump gets a new coredump client connection the kernel
guarantees that PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP information is available.
Currently the following information is provided in the new
@coredump_mask extension to struct pidfd_info:
* PIDFD_COREDUMPED is raised if the task did actually coredump
* PIDFD_COREDUMP_SKIP is raised if the task skipped coredumping
(e.g., undumpable)
* PIDFD_COREDUMP_USER is raised if this is a regular coredump and
doesn't need special care by the coredump server
* PIDFD_COREDUMP_ROOT is raised if the generated coredump should
be treated as sensitive and the coredump server should restrict
access to the generated coredump to sufficiently privileged
users"
* tag 'vfs-6.16-rc1.coredump' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
mips, net: ensure that SOCK_COREDUMP is defined
selftests/coredump: add tests for AF_UNIX coredumps
selftests/pidfd: add PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP infrastructure
coredump: validate socket name as it is written
coredump: show supported coredump modes
pidfs, coredump: add PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP
coredump: add coredump socket
coredump: reflow dump helpers a little
coredump: massage do_coredump()
coredump: massage format_corename()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull pidfs updates from Christian Brauner:
"Features:
- Allow handing out pidfds for reaped tasks for AF_UNIX SO_PEERPIDFD
socket option
SO_PEERPIDFD is a socket option that allows to retrieve a pidfd for
the process that called connect() or listen(). This is heavily used
to safely authenticate clients in userspace avoiding security bugs
due to pid recycling races (dbus, polkit, systemd, etc.)
SO_PEERPIDFD currently doesn't support handing out pidfds if the
sk->sk_peer_pid thread-group leader has already been reaped. In
this case it currently returns EINVAL. Userspace still wants to get
a pidfd for a reaped process to have a stable handle it can pass
on. This is especially useful now that it is possible to retrieve
exit information through a pidfd via the PIDFD_GET_INFO ioctl()'s
PIDFD_INFO_EXIT flag
Another summary has been provided by David Rheinsberg:
> A pidfd can outlive the task it refers to, and thus user-space
> must already be prepared that the task underlying a pidfd is
> gone at the time they get their hands on the pidfd. For
> instance, resolving the pidfd to a PID via the fdinfo must be
> prepared to read `-1`.
>
> Despite user-space knowing that a pidfd might be stale, several
> kernel APIs currently add another layer that checks for this. In
> particular, SO_PEERPIDFD returns `EINVAL` if the peer-task was
> already reaped, but returns a stale pidfd if the task is reaped
> immediately after the respective alive-check.
>
> This has the unfortunate effect that user-space now has two ways
> to check for the exact same scenario: A syscall might return
> EINVAL/ESRCH/... *or* the pidfd might be stale, even though
> there is no particular reason to distinguish both cases. This
> also propagates through user-space APIs, which pass on pidfds.
> They must be prepared to pass on `-1` *or* the pidfd, because
> there is no guaranteed way to get a stale pidfd from the kernel.
>
> Userspace must already deal with a pidfd referring to a reaped
> task as the task may exit and get reaped at any time will there
> are still many pidfds referring to it
In order to allow handing out reaped pidfd SO_PEERPIDFD needs to
ensure that PIDFD_INFO_EXIT information is available whenever a
pidfd for a reaped task is created by PIDFD_INFO_EXIT. The uapi
promises that reaped pidfds are only handed out if it is guaranteed
that the caller sees the exit information:
TEST_F(pidfd_info, success_reaped)
{
struct pidfd_info info = {
.mask = PIDFD_INFO_CGROUPID | PIDFD_INFO_EXIT,
};
/*
* Process has already been reaped and PIDFD_INFO_EXIT been set.
* Verify that we can retrieve the exit status of the process.
*/
ASSERT_EQ(ioctl(self->child_pidfd4, PIDFD_GET_INFO, &info), 0);
ASSERT_FALSE(!!(info.mask & PIDFD_INFO_CREDS));
ASSERT_TRUE(!!(info.mask & PIDFD_INFO_EXIT));
ASSERT_TRUE(WIFEXITED(info.exit_code));
ASSERT_EQ(WEXITSTATUS(info.exit_code), 0);
}
To hand out pidfds for reaped processes we thus allocate a pidfs
entry for the relevant sk->sk_peer_pid at the time the
sk->sk_peer_pid is stashed and drop it when the socket is
destroyed. This guarantees that exit information will always be
recorded for the sk->sk_peer_pid task and we can hand out pidfds
for reaped processes
- Hand a pidfd to the coredump usermode helper process
Give userspace a way to instruct the kernel to install a pidfd for
the crashing process into the process started as a usermode helper.
There's still tricky race-windows that cannot be easily or
sometimes not closed at all by userspace. There's various ways like
looking at the start time of a process to make sure that the
usermode helper process is started after the crashing process but
it's all very very brittle and fraught with peril
The crashed-but-not-reaped process can be killed by userspace
before coredump processing programs like systemd-coredump have had
time to manually open a PIDFD from the PID the kernel provides
them, which means they can be tricked into reading from an
arbitrary process, and they run with full privileges as they are
usermode helper processes
Even if that specific race-window wouldn't exist it's still the
safest and cleanest way to let the kernel provide the pidfd
directly instead of requiring userspace to do it manually. In
parallel with this commit we already have systemd adding support
for this in [1]
When the usermode helper process is forked we install a pidfd file
descriptor three into the usermode helper's file descriptor table
so it's available to the exec'd program
Since usermode helpers are either children of the system_unbound_wq
workqueue or kthreadd we know that the file descriptor table is
empty and can thus always use three as the file descriptor number
Note, that we'll install a pidfd for the thread-group leader even
if a subthread is calling do_coredump(). We know that task linkage
hasn't been removed yet and even if this @current isn't the actual
thread-group leader we know that the thread-group leader cannot be
reaped until
@current has exited
- Allow telling when a task has not been found from finding the wrong
task when creating a pidfd
We currently report EINVAL whenever a struct pid has no tasked
attached anymore thereby conflating two concepts:
(1) The task has already been reaped
(2) The caller requested a pidfd for a thread-group leader but the
pid actually references a struct pid that isn't used as a
thread-group leader
This is causing issues for non-threaded workloads as in where they
expect ESRCH to be reported, not EINVAL
So allow userspace to reliably distinguish between (1) and (2)
- Make it possible to detect when a pidfs entry would outlive the
struct pid it pinned
- Add a range of new selftests
Cleanups:
- Remove unneeded NULL check from pidfd_prepare() for passed struct
pid
- Avoid pointless reference count bump during release_task()
Fixes:
- Various fixes to the pidfd and coredump selftests
- Fix error handling for replace_fd() when spawning coredump usermode
helper"
* tag 'vfs-6.16-rc1.pidfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
pidfs: detect refcount bugs
coredump: hand a pidfd to the usermode coredump helper
coredump: fix error handling for replace_fd()
pidfs: move O_RDWR into pidfs_alloc_file()
selftests: coredump: Raise timeout to 2 minutes
selftests: coredump: Fix test failure for slow machines
selftests: coredump: Properly initialize pointer
net, pidfs: enable handing out pidfds for reaped sk->sk_peer_pid
pidfs: get rid of __pidfd_prepare()
net, pidfs: prepare for handing out pidfds for reaped sk->sk_peer_pid
pidfs: register pid in pidfs
net, pidfd: report EINVAL for ESRCH
release_task: kill the no longer needed get/put_pid(thread_pid)
pidfs: ensure consistent ENOENT/ESRCH reporting
exit: move wake_up_all() pidfd waiters into __unhash_process()
selftest/pidfd: add test for thread-group leader pidfd open for thread
pidfd: improve uapi when task isn't found
pidfd: remove unneeded NULL check from pidfd_prepare()
selftests/pidfd: adapt to recent changes
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Extend the PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP ioctl() with the new PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP
mask flag. This adds the @coredump_mask field to struct pidfd_info.
When a task coredumps the kernel will provide the following information
to userspace in @coredump_mask:
* PIDFD_COREDUMPED is raised if the task did actually coredump.
* PIDFD_COREDUMP_SKIP is raised if the task skipped coredumping (e.g.,
undumpable).
* PIDFD_COREDUMP_USER is raised if this is a regular coredump and
doesn't need special care by the coredump server.
* PIDFD_COREDUMP_ROOT is raised if the generated coredump should be
treated as sensitive and the coredump server should restrict to the
generated coredump to sufficiently privileged users.
The kernel guarantees that by the time the connection is made the all
PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP info is available.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250516-work-coredump-socket-v8-5-664f3caf2516@kernel.org
Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Since all pidfds must be O_RDWR currently enfore that directly in the
file allocation function itself instead of letting callers specify it.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250414-work-coredump-v2-1-685bf231f828@kernel.org
Tested-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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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>
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Add simple helpers that allow a struct pid to be pinned via a pidfs
dentry/inode. If no pidfs dentry exists a new one will be allocated for
it. A reference is taken by pidfs on @pid. The reference must be
released via pidfs_put_pid().
This will allow AF_UNIX sockets to allocate a dentry for the peer
credentials pid at the time they are recorded where we know the task is
still alive. When the task gets reaped its exit status is guaranteed to
be recorded and a pidfd can be handed out for the reaped task.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250425-work-pidfs-net-v2-1-450a19461e75@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Rheinsberg <david@readahead.eu>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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This makes it easy to detect proper anonymous inodes and to ensure that
we can detect them in codepaths such as readahead().
Readahead on anonymous inodes didn't work because they didn't have a
proper mode. Now that they have we need to retain EINVAL being returned
otherwise LTP will fail.
We also need to ensure that ioctls aren't simply fired like they are for
regular files so things like inotify inodes continue to correctly call
their own ioctl handlers as in [1].
Reported-by: Xilin Wu <sophon@radxa.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/3A9139D5CD543962+89831381-31b9-4392-87ec-a84a5b3507d8@radxa.com [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/7a1a7076-ff6b-4cb0-94e7-7218a0a44028@sirena.org.uk
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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So far pidfs did use it's own version. Just use the generic version.
We use our own wrappers because we're going to be implementing
properties soon.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250407-work-anon_inode-v1-4-53a44c20d44e@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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So far pidfs did use it's own version. Just use the generic version. We
use our own wrappers because we're going to be implementing our own
retrieval properties soon.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250407-work-anon_inode-v1-2-53a44c20d44e@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull vfs pidfs updates from Christian Brauner:
- Allow retrieving exit information after a process has been reaped
through pidfds via the new PIDFD_INTO_EXIT extension for the
PIDFD_GET_INFO ioctl. Various tools need access to information about
a process/task even after it has already been reaped.
Pidfd polling allows waiting on either task exit or for a task to
have been reaped. The contract for PIDFD_INFO_EXIT is simply that
EPOLLHUP must be observed before exit information can be retrieved,
i.e., exit information is only provided once the task has been reaped
and then can be retrieved as long as the pidfd is open.
- Add PIDFD_SELF_{THREAD,THREAD_GROUP} sentinels allowing userspace to
forgo allocating a file descriptor for their own process. This is
useful in scenarios where users want to act on their own process
through pidfds and is akin to AT_FDCWD.
- Improve premature thread-group leader and subthread exec behavior
when polling on pidfds:
(1) During a multi-threaded exec by a subthread, i.e.,
non-thread-group leader thread, all other threads in the
thread-group including the thread-group leader are killed and the
struct pid of the thread-group leader will be taken over by the
subthread that called exec. IOW, two tasks change their TIDs.
(2) A premature thread-group leader exit means that the thread-group
leader exited before all of the other subthreads in the
thread-group have exited.
Both cases lead to inconsistencies for pidfd polling with
PIDFD_THREAD. Any caller that holds a PIDFD_THREAD pidfd to the
current thread-group leader may or may not see an exit notification
on the file descriptor depending on when poll is performed. If the
poll is performed before the exec of the subthread has concluded an
exit notification is generated for the old thread-group leader. If
the poll is performed after the exec of the subthread has concluded
no exit notification is generated for the old thread-group leader.
The correct behavior is to simply not generate an exit notification
on the struct pid of a subhthread exec because the struct pid is
taken over by the subthread and thus remains alive.
But this is difficult to handle because a thread-group may exit
premature as mentioned in (2). In that case an exit notification is
reliably generated but the subthreads may continue to run for an
indeterminate amount of time and thus also may exec at some point.
After this pull no exit notifications will be generated for a
PIDFD_THREAD pidfd for a thread-group leader until all subthreads
have been reaped. If a subthread should exec before no exit
notification will be generated until that task exits or it creates
subthreads and repeates the cycle.
This means an exit notification indicates the ability for the father
to reap the child.
* tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.pidfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (25 commits)
selftests/pidfd: third test for multi-threaded exec polling
selftests/pidfd: second test for multi-threaded exec polling
selftests/pidfd: first test for multi-threaded exec polling
pidfs: improve multi-threaded exec and premature thread-group leader exit polling
pidfs: ensure that PIDFS_INFO_EXIT is available
selftests/pidfd: add seventh PIDFD_INFO_EXIT selftest
selftests/pidfd: add sixth PIDFD_INFO_EXIT selftest
selftests/pidfd: add fifth PIDFD_INFO_EXIT selftest
selftests/pidfd: add fourth PIDFD_INFO_EXIT selftest
selftests/pidfd: add third PIDFD_INFO_EXIT selftest
selftests/pidfd: add second PIDFD_INFO_EXIT selftest
selftests/pidfd: add first PIDFD_INFO_EXIT selftest
selftests/pidfd: expand common pidfd header
pidfs/selftests: ensure correct headers for ioctl handling
selftests/pidfd: fix header inclusion
pidfs: allow to retrieve exit information
pidfs: record exit code and cgroupid at exit
pidfs: use private inode slab cache
pidfs: move setting flags into pidfs_alloc_file()
pidfd: rely on automatic cleanup in __pidfd_prepare()
...
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polling
This is another attempt trying to make pidfd polling for multi-threaded
exec and premature thread-group leader exit consistent.
A quick recap of these two cases:
(1) During a multi-threaded exec by a subthread, i.e., non-thread-group
leader thread, all other threads in the thread-group including the
thread-group leader are killed and the struct pid of the
thread-group leader will be taken over by the subthread that called
exec. IOW, two tasks change their TIDs.
(2) A premature thread-group leader exit means that the thread-group
leader exited before all of the other subthreads in the thread-group
have exited.
Both cases lead to inconsistencies for pidfd polling with PIDFD_THREAD.
Any caller that holds a PIDFD_THREAD pidfd to the current thread-group
leader may or may not see an exit notification on the file descriptor
depending on when poll is performed. If the poll is performed before the
exec of the subthread has concluded an exit notification is generated
for the old thread-group leader. If the poll is performed after the exec
of the subthread has concluded no exit notification is generated for the
old thread-group leader.
The correct behavior would be to simply not generate an exit
notification on the struct pid of a subhthread exec because the struct
pid is taken over by the subthread and thus remains alive.
But this is difficult to handle because a thread-group may exit
prematurely as mentioned in (2). In that case an exit notification is
reliably generated but the subthreads may continue to run for an
indeterminate amount of time and thus also may exec at some point.
So far there was no way to distinguish between (1) and (2) internally.
This tiny series tries to address this problem by discarding
PIDFD_THREAD notification on premature thread-group leader exit.
If that works correctly then no exit notifications are generated for a
PIDFD_THREAD pidfd for a thread-group leader until all subthreads have
been reaped. If a subthread should exec aftewards no exit notification
will be generated until that task exits or it creates subthreads and
repeates the cycle.
Co-Developed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250320-work-pidfs-thread_group-v4-1-da678ce805bf@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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When we currently create a pidfd we check that the task hasn't been
reaped right before we create the pidfd. But it is of course possible
that by the time we return the pidfd to userspace the task has already
been reaped since we don't check again after having created a dentry for
it.
This was fine until now because that race was meaningless. But now that
we provide PIDFD_INFO_EXIT it is a problem because it is possible that
the kernel returns a reaped pidfd and it depends on the race whether
PIDFD_INFO_EXIT information is available. This depends on if the task
gets reaped before or after a dentry has been attached to struct pid.
Make this consistent and only returned pidfds for reaped tasks if
PIDFD_INFO_EXIT information is available. This is done by performing
another check whether the task has been reaped right after we attached a
dentry to struct pid.
Since pidfs_exit() is called before struct pid's task linkage is removed
the case where the task got reaped but a dentry was already attached to
struct pid and exit information was recorded and published can be
handled correctly. In that case we do return a pidfd for a reaped task
like we would've before.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250316-kabel-fehden-66bdb6a83436@brauner
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Some tools like systemd's jounral need to retrieve the exit and cgroup
information after a process has already been reaped. This can e.g.,
happen when retrieving a pidfd via SCM_PIDFD or SCM_PEERPIDFD.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250305-work-pidfs-kill_on_last_close-v3-6-c8c3d8361705@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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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/20250305-work-pidfs-kill_on_last_close-v3-5-c8c3d8361705@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Introduce a private inode slab cache for pidfs. In follow-up patches
pidfs will gain the ability to provide exit information to userspace
after the task has been reaped. This means storing exit information even
after the task has already been released and struct pid's task linkage
is gone. Store that information alongside the inode.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250305-work-pidfs-kill_on_last_close-v3-4-c8c3d8361705@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Instead od adding it into __pidfd_prepare() place it where the actual
file allocation happens and update the outdated comment.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250305-work-pidfs-kill_on_last_close-v3-3-c8c3d8361705@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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We have a helper that deals with all the required logic.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250305-work-pidfs-kill_on_last_close-v3-1-c8c3d8361705@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Pidfs only deals with unhashed dentries and there's currently no way for
them to become hashed. So remove d_op->d_delete.
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Pidfs supports extensible and non-extensible ioctls. The extensible
ioctls need to check for the ioctl number itself not just the ioctl
command otherwise both backward- and forward compatibility are broken.
The pidfs ioctl handler also needs to look at the type of the ioctl
command to guard against cases where "[...] a daemon receives some
random file descriptor from a (potentially less privileged) client and
expects the FD to be of some specific type, it might call ioctl() on
this FD with some type-specific command and expect the call to fail if
the FD is of the wrong type; but due to the missing type check, the
kernel instead performs some action that userspace didn't expect."
(cf. [1]]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250204-work-pidfs-ioctl-v1-1-04987d239575@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAG48ez2K9A5GwtgqO31u9ZL292we8ZwAA=TJwwEv7wRuJ3j4Lw@mail.gmail.com [1]
Fixes: 8ce352818820 ("pidfs: check for valid ioctl commands")
Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.13; please backport with 8ce352818820 ("pidfs: check for valid ioctl commands")
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Allow bind-mounting pidfds. Similar to nsfs let's allow bind-mounts for
pidfds. This allows pidfds to be safely recovered and checked for
process recycling.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241219-work-pidfs-mount-v1-1-dbc56198b839@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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The new pid inode number allocation scheme is neat but I overlooked a
possible, even though unlikely, attack that can be used to trigger an
overflow on both 32bit and 64bit.
An unique 64 bit identifier was constructed for each struct pid by two
combining a 32 bit idr with a 32 bit generation number. A 32bit number
was allocated using the idr_alloc_cyclic() infrastructure. When the idr
wrapped around a 32 bit wraparound counter was incremented. The 32 bit
wraparound counter served as the upper 32 bits and the allocated idr
number as the lower 32 bits.
Since the idr can only allocate up to INT_MAX entries everytime a
wraparound happens INT_MAX - 1 entries are lost (Ignoring that numbering
always starts at 2 to avoid theoretical collisions with the root inode
number.).
If userspace fully populates the idr such that and puts itself into
control of two entries such that one entry is somewhere in the middle
and the other entry is the INT_MAX entry then it is possible to overflow
the wraparound counter. That is probably difficult to pull off but the
mere possibility is annoying.
The problem could be contained to 32 bit by switching to a data
structure such as the maple tree that allows allocating 64 bit numbers
on 64 bit machines. That would leave 32 bit in a lurch but that probably
doesn't matter that much. The other problem is that removing entries
form the maple tree is somewhat non-trivial because the removal code can
be called under the irq write lock of tasklist_lock and
irq{save,restore} code.
Instead, allocate unique identifiers for struct pid by simply
incrementing a 64 bit counter and insert each struct pid into the rbtree
so it can be looked up to decode file handles avoiding to leak actual
pids across pid namespaces in file handles.
On both 64 bit and 32 bit the same 64 bit identifier is used to lookup
struct pid in the rbtree. On 64 bit the unique identifier for struct pid
simply becomes the inode number. Comparing two pidfds continues to be as
simple as comparing inode numbers.
On 32 bit the 64 bit number assigned to struct pid is split into two 32
bit numbers. The lower 32 bits are used as the inode number and the
upper 32 bits are used as the inode generation number. Whenever a
wraparound happens on 32 bit the 64 bit number will be incremented by 2
so inode numbering starts at 2 again.
When a wraparound happens on 32 bit multiple pidfds with the same inode
number are likely to exist. This isn't a problem since before pidfs
pidfds used the anonymous inode meaning all pidfds had the same inode
number. On 32 bit sserspace can thus reconstruct the 64 bit identifier
by retrieving both the inode number and the inode generation number to
compare, or use file handles. This gives the same guarantees on both 32
bit and 64 bit.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241214-gekoppelt-erdarbeiten-a1f9a982a5a6@brauner
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Prior to doing any work, check whether the provided ioctl command is
supported by pidfs.
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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On 64-bit platforms, userspace can read the pidfd's inode in order to
get a never-repeated PID identifier. On 32-bit platforms this identifier
is not exposed, as inodes are limited to 32 bits. Instead expose the
identifier via export_fh, which makes it available to userspace via
name_to_handle_at.
In addition we implement fh_to_dentry, which allows userspace to
recover a pidfd from a pidfs file handle.
Signed-off-by: Erin Shepherd <erin.shepherd@e43.eu>
[brauner: patch heavily rewritten]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241129-work-pidfs-file_handle-v1-6-87d803a42495@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Co-Developed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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This will allow 32 bit userspace to detect when a given inode number has
been recycled and also to construct a unique 64 bit identifier.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241129-work-pidfs-v2-3-61043d66fbce@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Now that we have a unified inode number handling model remove the custom
ida-based allocation for 32bit.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241129-work-pidfs-v2-2-61043d66fbce@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Recently we received a patchset that aims to enable file handle encoding
and decoding via name_to_handle_at(2) and open_by_handle_at(2).
A crucical step in the patch series is how to go from inode number to
struct pid without leaking information into unprivileged contexts. The
issue is that in order to find a struct pid the pid number in the
initial pid namespace must be encoded into the file handle via
name_to_handle_at(2). This can be used by containers using a separate
pid namespace to learn what the pid number of a given process in the
initial pid namespace is. While this is a weak information leak it could
be used in various exploits and in general is an ugly wart in the design.
To solve this problem a new way is needed to lookup a struct pid based
on the inode number allocated for that struct pid. The other part is to
remove the custom inode number allocation on 32bit systems that is also
an ugly wart that should go away.
So, a new scheme is used that I was discusssing with Tejun some time
back. A cyclic ida is used for the lower 32 bits and a the high 32 bits
are used for the generation number. This gives a 64 bit inode number
that is unique on both 32 bit and 64 bit. The lower 32 bit number is
recycled slowly and can be used to lookup struct pids.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241129-work-pidfs-v2-1-61043d66fbce@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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A common pattern when using pid fds 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.: I have reimplemented
resolving 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 creds unconditionally, and cgroupid
optionally.
Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241010155401.2268522-1-luca.boccassi@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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When we access a no-current task's pid namespace we need check that the
task hasn't been reaped in the meantime and it's pid namespace isn't
accessible anymore.
The user namespace is fine because it is only released when the last
reference to struct task_struct is put and exit_creds() is called.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240926-klebt-altgedienten-0415ad4d273c@brauner
Fixes: 5b08bd408534 ("pidfs: allow retrieval of namespace file descriptors")
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.11
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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The nsproxy structure contains nearly all of the namespaces associated
with a task. When a given namespace type is not supported by this kernel
the rules whether the corresponding pointer in struct nsproxy is NULL or
always init_<ns_type>_ns differ per namespace. Ideally, that wouldn't be
the case and for all namespace types we'd always set it to
init_<ns_type>_ns when the corresponding namespace type isn't supported.
Make sure we handle all namespaces where the pointer in struct nsproxy
can be NULL when the namespace type isn't supported.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240722-work-pidfs-e6a83030f63e@brauner
Fixes: 5b08bd408534 ("pidfs: allow retrieval of namespace file descriptors") # mainline only
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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syzbot call pidfd_ioctl() with cmd "PIDFD_GET_TIME_NAMESPACE" and disabled
CONFIG_TIME_NS, since time_ns is NULL, it will make NULL ponter deref in
open_namespace.
Fixes: 5b08bd408534 ("pidfs: allow retrieval of namespace file descriptors") # mainline only
Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+34a0ee986f61f15da35d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=34a0ee986f61f15da35d
Signed-off-by: Edward Adam Davis <eadavis@qq.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/tencent_7FAE8DB725EE0DD69236DDABDDDE195E4F07@qq.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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For users that hold a reference to a pidfd procfs might not even be
available nor is it desirable to parse through procfs just for the sake
of getting namespace file descriptors for a process.
Make it possible to directly retrieve namespace file descriptors from a
pidfd. Pidfds already can be used with setns() to change a set of
namespaces atomically.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240627-work-pidfs-v1-4-7e9ab6cc3bb1@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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pidfs started using much saner inodes in commit b28ddcc32d8f ("pidfs:
convert to path_from_stashed() helper"), but that exposed the fact that
lsof had some knowledge of just how odd our old anon_inode usage was.
For example, legacy anon_inodes hadn't even initialized the inode type
in the inode mode, so everything had a type of zero.
So sane tools like 'stat' would report these files as "weird file", but
'lsof' instead used that (together with the name of the link in proc) to
notice that it's an anonymous inode, and used it to detect pidfd files.
Let's keep our internal new sane inode model, but mask the file type
bits at 'stat()' time in the getattr() function we already have, and by
making the dentry name match what lsof expects too.
This keeps our internal models sane, but should make user space see the
same old odd behavior.
Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/a15b1050-4b52-4740-a122-a4d055c17f11@kernel.org/
Link: https://github.com/lsof-org/lsof/issues/317
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Seth Forshee <sforshee@kernel.org>
Cc: Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.pizza>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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As Linus suggested this enables pidfs unconditionally. A key property to
retain is the ability to compare pidfds by inode number (cf. [1]).
That's extremely helpful just as comparing namespace file descriptors by
inode number is. They are used in a variety of scenarios where they need
to be compared, e.g., when receiving a pidfd via SO_PEERPIDFD from a
socket to trivially authenticate a the sender and various other
use-cases.
For 64bit systems this is pretty trivial to do. For 32bit it's slightly
more annoying as we discussed but we simply add a dumb ida based
allocator that gets used on 32bit. This gives the same guarantees about
inode numbers on 64bit without any overflow risk. Practically, we'll
never run into overflow issues because we're constrained by the number
of processes that can exist on 32bit and by the number of open files
that can exist on a 32bit system. On 64bit none of this matters and
things are very simple.
If 32bit also needs the uniqueness guarantee they can simply parse the
contents of /proc/<pid>/fd/<nr>. The uniqueness guarantees have a
variety of use-cases. One of the most obvious ones is that they will
make pidfiles (or "pidfdfiles", I guess) reliable as the unique
identifier can be placed into there that won't be reycled. Also a
frequent request.
Note, I took the chance and simplified path_from_stashed() even further.
Instead of passing the inode number explicitly to path_from_stashed() we
let the filesystem handle that internally. So path_from_stashed() ends
up even simpler than it is now. This is also a good solution allowing
the cleanup code to be clean and consistent between 32bit and 64bit. The
cleanup path in prepare_anon_dentry() is also switched around so we put
the inode before the dentry allocation. This means we only have to call
the cleanup handler for the filesystem's inode data once and can rely
->evict_inode() otherwise.
Aside from having to have a bit of extra code for 32bit it actually ends
up a nice cleanup for path_from_stashed() imho.
Tested on both 32 and 64bit including error injection.
Link: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/31713 [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240312-dingo-sehnlich-b3ecc35c6de7@brauner
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Right now we pass a bunch of info that is fs specific which doesn't make
a lot of sense and it bleeds fs sepcific details into the generic
helper. nsfs and pidfs have slightly different needs when initializing
inodes. Add simple operations that are stashed in sb->s_fs_info that
both can implement. This also allows us to get rid of cleaning up
references in the caller. All in all path_from_stashed() becomes way
simpler.
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Both pidfs and nsfs use a memory location to stash a dentry for reuse by
concurrent openers. Right now two custom
dentry->d_prune::{ns,pidfs}_prune_dentry() methods are needed that do
the same thing. The only thing that differs is that they need to get to
the memory location to store or retrieve the dentry from differently.
Fix that by remember the stashing location for the dentry in
dentry->d_fsdata which allows us to retrieve it in dentry->d_prune. That
in turn makes it possible to add a common helper that pidfs and nsfs can
both use.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wg8cHY=i3m6RnXQ2Y2W8psicKWQEZq1=94ivUiviM-0OA@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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In earlier patches we moved both nsfs and pidfs to path_from_stashed().
The helper currently tries to add and stash a new dentry if a reusable
dentry couldn't be found and returns EAGAIN if it lost the race to stash
the dentry. The caller can use EAGAIN to retry.
The helper and the two filesystems be written in a way that makes
returning EAGAIN unnecessary. To do this we need to change the
dentry->d_prune() implementation of nsfs and pidfs to not simply replace
the stashed dentry with NULL but to use a cmpxchg() and only replace
their own dentry.
Then path_from_stashed() can then be changed to not just stash a new
dentry when no dentry is currently stashed but also when an already dead
dentry is stashed. If another task managed to install a dentry in the
meantime it can simply be reused. Pack that into a loop and call it a
day.
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wgtLF5Z5=15-LKAczWm=-tUjHO+Bpf7WjBG+UU3s=fEQw@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Moving pidfds from the anonymous inode infrastructure to a separate tiny
in-kernel filesystem similar to sockfs, pipefs, and anon_inodefs causes
selinux denials and thus various userspace components that make heavy
use of pidfds to fail as pidfds used anon_inode_getfile() which aren't
subject to any LSM hooks. But dentry_open() is and that would cause
regressions.
The failures that are seen are selinux denials. But the core failure is
dbus-broker. That cascades into other services failing that depend on
dbus-broker. For example, when dbus-broker fails to start polkit and all
the others won't be able to work because they depend on dbus-broker.
The reason for dbus-broker failing is because it doesn't handle failures
for SO_PEERPIDFD correctly. Last kernel release we introduced
SO_PEERPIDFD (and SCM_PIDFD). SO_PEERPIDFD allows dbus-broker and polkit
and others to receive a pidfd for the peer of an AF_UNIX socket. This is
the first time in the history of Linux that we can safely authenticate
clients in a race-free manner.
dbus-broker immediately made use of this but messed up the error
checking. It only allowed EINVAL as a valid failure for SO_PEERPIDFD.
That's obviously problematic not just because of LSM denials but because
of seccomp denials that would prevent SO_PEERPIDFD from working; or any
other new error code from there.
So this is catching a flawed implementation in dbus-broker as well. It
has to fallback to the old pid-based authentication when SO_PEERPIDFD
doesn't work no matter the reasons otherwise it'll always risk such
failures. So overall that LSM denial should not have caused dbus-broker
to fail. It can never assume that a feature released one kernel ago like
SO_PEERPIDFD can be assumed to be available.
So, the next fix separate from the selinux policy update is to try and
fix dbus-broker at [3]. That should make it into Fedora as well. In
addition the selinux reference policy should also be updated. See [4]
for that. If Selinux is in enforcing mode in userspace and it encounters
anything that it doesn't know about it will deny it by default. And the
policy is entirely in userspace including declaring new types for stuff
like nsfs or pidfs to allow it.
For now we continue to raise S_PRIVATE on the inode if it's a pidfs
inode which means things behave exactly like before.
Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2265630
Link: https://github.com/fedora-selinux/selinux-policy/pull/2050
Link: https://github.com/bus1/dbus-broker/pull/343 [3]
Link: https://github.com/SELinuxProject/refpolicy/pull/762 [4]
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240222190334.GA412503@dev-arch.thelio-3990X
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240218-neufahrzeuge-brauhaus-fb0eb6459771@brauner
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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This moves pidfds from the anonymous inode infrastructure to a tiny
pseudo filesystem. This has been on my todo for quite a while as it will
unblock further work that we weren't able to do simply because of the
very justified limitations of anonymous inodes. Moving pidfds to a tiny
pseudo filesystem allows:
* statx() on pidfds becomes useful for the first time.
* pidfds can be compared simply via statx() and then comparing inode
numbers.
* pidfds have unique inode numbers for the system lifetime.
* struct pid is now stashed in inode->i_private instead of
file->private_data. This means it is now possible to introduce
concepts that operate on a process once all file descriptors have been
closed. A concrete example is kill-on-last-close.
* file->private_data is freed up for per-file options for pidfds.
* Each struct pid will refer to a different inode but the same struct
pid will refer to the same inode if it's opened multiple times. In
contrast to now where each struct pid refers to the same inode. Even
if we were to move to anon_inode_create_getfile() which creates new
inodes we'd still be associating the same struct pid with multiple
different inodes.
The tiny pseudo filesystem is not visible anywhere in userspace exactly
like e.g., pipefs and sockfs. There's no lookup, there's no complex
inode operations, nothing. Dentries and inodes are always deleted when
the last pidfd is closed.
We allocate a new inode for each struct pid and we reuse that inode for
all pidfds. We use iget_locked() to find that inode again based on the
inode number which isn't recycled. We allocate a new dentry for each
pidfd that uses the same inode. That is similar to anonymous inodes
which reuse the same inode for thousands of dentries. For pidfds we're
talking way less than that. There usually won't be a lot of concurrent
openers of the same struct pid. They can probably often be counted on
two hands. I know that systemd does use separate pidfd for the same
struct pid for various complex process tracking issues. So I think with
that things actually become way simpler. Especially because we don't
have to care about lookup. Dentries and inodes continue to be always
deleted.
The code is entirely optional and fairly small. If it's not selected we
fallback to anonymous inodes. Heavily inspired by nsfs which uses a
similar stashing mechanism just for namespaces.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240213-vfs-pidfd_fs-v1-2-f863f58cfce1@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Move the pidfd file operations over to their own file in preparation of
implementing pidfs and to isolate them from other mostly unrelated
functionality in other files.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240213-vfs-pidfd_fs-v1-1-f863f58cfce1@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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