[PATCH v2 2/2] pidfd: change pidfd_send_signal() to respect PIDFD_THREAD

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Fri Feb 09 2024 - 08:08:24 EST


Turn kill_pid_info() into kill_pid_info_type(), this allows to pass any
pid_type to group_send_sig_info(), despite its name it should work fine
even if type = PIDTYPE_PID.

Change pidfd_send_signal() to use PIDTYPE_PID or PIDTYPE_TGID depending
on PIDFD_THREAD.

While at it kill another TODO comment in pidfd_show_fdinfo(). As Christian
expains fdinfo reports f_flags, userspace can already detect PIDFD_THREAD.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/fork.c | 2 --
kernel/signal.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index cd61ca87d0e6..47b565598063 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -2051,8 +2051,6 @@ static void pidfd_show_fdinfo(struct seq_file *m, struct file *f)

seq_put_decimal_ll(m, "Pid:\t", nr);

- /* TODO: report PIDFD_THREAD */
-
#ifdef CONFIG_PID_NS
seq_put_decimal_ll(m, "\nNSpid:\t", nr);
if (nr > 0) {
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index a8199fda0d61..9578ce17d85d 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@
#include <linux/cgroup.h>
#include <linux/audit.h>
#include <linux/sysctl.h>
+#include <uapi/linux/pidfd.h>

#define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
#include <trace/events/signal.h>
@@ -1436,7 +1437,8 @@ void lockdep_assert_task_sighand_held(struct task_struct *task)
#endif

/*
- * send signal info to all the members of a group
+ * send signal info to all the members of a thread group or to the
+ * individual thread if type == PIDTYPE_PID.
*/
int group_send_sig_info(int sig, struct kernel_siginfo *info,
struct task_struct *p, enum pid_type type)
@@ -1478,7 +1480,8 @@ int __kill_pgrp_info(int sig, struct kernel_siginfo *info, struct pid *pgrp)
return ret;
}

-int kill_pid_info(int sig, struct kernel_siginfo *info, struct pid *pid)
+static int kill_pid_info_type(int sig, struct kernel_siginfo *info,
+ struct pid *pid, enum pid_type type)
{
int error = -ESRCH;
struct task_struct *p;
@@ -1487,11 +1490,10 @@ int kill_pid_info(int sig, struct kernel_siginfo *info, struct pid *pid)
rcu_read_lock();
p = pid_task(pid, PIDTYPE_PID);
if (p)
- error = group_send_sig_info(sig, info, p, PIDTYPE_TGID);
+ error = group_send_sig_info(sig, info, p, type);
rcu_read_unlock();
if (likely(!p || error != -ESRCH))
return error;
-
/*
* The task was unhashed in between, try again. If it
* is dead, pid_task() will return NULL, if we race with
@@ -1500,6 +1502,11 @@ int kill_pid_info(int sig, struct kernel_siginfo *info, struct pid *pid)
}
}

+int kill_pid_info(int sig, struct kernel_siginfo *info, struct pid *pid)
+{
+ return kill_pid_info_type(sig, info, pid, PIDTYPE_TGID);
+}
+
static int kill_proc_info(int sig, struct kernel_siginfo *info, pid_t pid)
{
int error;
@@ -3872,14 +3879,10 @@ static struct pid *pidfd_to_pid(const struct file *file)
* @info: signal info
* @flags: future flags
*
- * The syscall currently only signals via PIDTYPE_PID which covers
- * kill(<positive-pid>, <signal>. It does not signal threads or process
- * groups.
- * In order to extend the syscall to threads and process groups the @flags
- * argument should be used. In essence, the @flags argument will determine
- * what is signaled and not the file descriptor itself. Put in other words,
- * grouping is a property of the flags argument not a property of the file
- * descriptor.
+ * Send the signal to the thread group or to the individual thread depending
+ * on PIDFD_THREAD.
+ * In the future extension to @flags may be used to override the default scope
+ * of @pidfd.
*
* Return: 0 on success, negative errno on failure
*/
@@ -3890,6 +3893,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(pidfd_send_signal, int, pidfd, int, sig,
struct fd f;
struct pid *pid;
kernel_siginfo_t kinfo;
+ bool thread;

/* Enforce flags be set to 0 until we add an extension. */
if (flags)
@@ -3910,6 +3914,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(pidfd_send_signal, int, pidfd, int, sig,
if (!access_pidfd_pidns(pid))
goto err;

+ thread = f.file->f_flags & PIDFD_THREAD;
+
if (info) {
ret = copy_siginfo_from_user_any(&kinfo, info);
if (unlikely(ret))
@@ -3925,12 +3931,12 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(pidfd_send_signal, int, pidfd, int, sig,
(kinfo.si_code >= 0 || kinfo.si_code == SI_TKILL))
goto err;
} else {
- prepare_kill_siginfo(sig, &kinfo, SI_USER);
+ prepare_kill_siginfo(sig, &kinfo,
+ thread ? SI_TKILL : SI_USER);
}

- /* TODO: respect PIDFD_THREAD */
- ret = kill_pid_info(sig, &kinfo, pid);
-
+ ret = kill_pid_info_type(sig, &kinfo, pid,
+ thread ? PIDTYPE_PID : PIDTYPE_TGID);
err:
fdput(f);
return ret;
--
2.25.1.362.g51ebf55