On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 11:14:17PM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
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> >
> > ---8<-----------------------
> >
> > From: Joel Fernandes <joe...@google.com>
> > Subject: [PATCH] Partial skeleton prototype of pidfd_wait frontend
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joe...@google.com>
> > ---
> > arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl | 1 +
> > arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl | 1 +
> > include/linux/syscalls.h | 1 +
> > include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h | 4 +-
> > kernel/signal.c | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > kernel/sys_ni.c | 3 ++
> > 6 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl
> > b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl
> > index 1f9607ed087c..2a63f1896b63 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl
> > +++ b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl
> > @@ -433,3 +433,4 @@
> > 425 i386 io_uring_setup sys_io_uring_setup
> > __ia32_sys_io_uring_setup
> > 426 i386 io_uring_enter sys_io_uring_enter
> > __ia32_sys_io_uring_enter
> > 427 i386 io_uring_register sys_io_uring_register
> > __ia32_sys_io_uring_register
> > +428 i386 pidfd_wait sys_pidfd_wait
> > __ia32_sys_pidfd_wait
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
> > b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
> > index 92ee0b4378d4..cf2e08a8053b 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
> > +++ b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
> > @@ -349,6 +349,7 @@
> > 425 common io_uring_setup __x64_sys_io_uring_setup
> > 426 common io_uring_enter __x64_sys_io_uring_enter
> > 427 common io_uring_register __x64_sys_io_uring_register
> > +428 common pidfd_wait __x64_sys_pidfd_wait
> >
> > #
> > # x32-specific system call numbers start at 512 to avoid cache impact
> > diff --git a/include/linux/syscalls.h b/include/linux/syscalls.h
> > index e446806a561f..62160970ed3f 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/syscalls.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/syscalls.h
> > @@ -988,6 +988,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_rseq(struct rseq __user *rseq,
> > uint32_t rseq_len,
> > asmlinkage long sys_pidfd_send_signal(int pidfd, int sig,
> > siginfo_t __user *info,
> > unsigned int flags);
> > +asmlinkage long sys_pidfd_wait(int pidfd);
> >
> > /*
> > * Architecture-specific system calls
> > diff --git a/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h
> > b/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h
> > index dee7292e1df6..137aa8662230 100644
> > --- a/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h
> > +++ b/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h
> > @@ -832,9 +832,11 @@ __SYSCALL(__NR_io_uring_setup, sys_io_uring_setup)
> > __SYSCALL(__NR_io_uring_enter, sys_io_uring_enter)
> > #define __NR_io_uring_register 427
> > __SYSCALL(__NR_io_uring_register, sys_io_uring_register)
> > +#define __NR_pidfd_wait 428
> > +__SYSCALL(__NR_pidfd_wait, sys_pidfd_wait)
> >
> > #undef __NR_syscalls
> > -#define __NR_syscalls 428
> > +#define __NR_syscalls 429
> >
> > /*
> > * 32 bit systems traditionally used different
> > diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
> > index b7953934aa99..ebb550b87044 100644
> > --- a/kernel/signal.c
> > +++ b/kernel/signal.c
> > @@ -3550,6 +3550,68 @@ static int
> > copy_siginfo_from_user_any(kernel_siginfo_t *kinfo, siginfo_t *info)
> > return copy_siginfo_from_user(kinfo, info);
> > }
> >
> > +static ssize_t pidfd_wait_read_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter
> > *to)
> > +{
> > + /*
> > + * This is just a test string, it will contain the actual
> > + * status of the pidfd in the future.
> > + */
> > + char buf[] = "status";
> > +
> > + return copy_to_iter(buf, strlen(buf)+1, to);
> > +}
> > +
> > +static const struct file_operations pidfd_wait_file_ops = {
> > + .read_iter = pidfd_wait_read_iter,
> > +};
> > +
> > +static struct inode *pidfd_wait_get_inode(struct super_block *sb)
> > +{
> > + struct inode *inode = new_inode(sb);
> > +
> > + inode->i_ino = get_next_ino();
> > + inode_init_owner(inode, NULL, S_IFREG);
> > +
> > + inode->i_op = &simple_dir_inode_operations;
> > + inode->i_fop = &pidfd_wait_file_ops;
> > +
> > + return inode;
> > +}
> > +
> > +SYSCALL_DEFINE1(pidfd_wait, int, pidfd)
> > +{
> > + struct fd f;
> > + struct inode *inode;
> > + struct file *file;
> > + int new_fd;
> > + struct pid_namespace *pid_ns;
> > + struct super_block *sb;
> > + struct vfsmount *mnt;
> > +
> > + f = fdget_raw(pidfd);
> > + if (!f.file)
> > + return -EBADF;
> > +
> > + sb = file_inode(f.file)->i_sb;
> > + pid_ns = sb->s_fs_info;
> > +
> > + inode = pidfd_wait_get_inode(sb);
> > +
> > + mnt = pid_ns->proc_mnt;
> > +
> > + file = alloc_file_pseudo(inode, mnt, "pidfd_wait", O_RDONLY,
> > + &pidfd_wait_file_ops);
>
> So I dislike the idea of allocating new inodes from the procfs super
> block. I would like to avoid pinning the whole pidfd concept exclusively
> to proc. The idea is that the pidfd API will be useable through procfs
> via open("/proc/<pid>") because that is what users expect and really
> wanted to have for a long time. So it makes sense to have this working.
> But it should really be useable without it. That's why translate_pid()
> and pidfd_clone() are on the table. What I'm saying is, once the pidfd
> api is "complete" you should be able to set CONFIG_PROCFS=N - even
> though that's crazy - and still be able to use pidfds. This is also a
> point akpm asked about when I did the pidfd_send_signal work.
Oh, ok. Somehow 'proc' and 'pid' sound very similar in terminology so
naturally I felt the proc fs superblock would be a fit, but I see your point.
> So instead of going throught proc we should probably do what David has
> been doing in the mount API and come to rely on anone_inode. So
> something like:
>
> fd = anon_inode_getfd("pidfd", &pidfd_fops, file_priv_data, flags);
>
> and stash information such as pid namespace etc. in a pidfd struct or
> something that we then can stash file->private_data of the new file.
> This also lets us avoid all this open coding done here.
> Another advantage is that anon_inodes is its own kernel-internal
> filesystem.
Thanks for the suggestion! Agreed this is better and will do it this way then.
thanks,
- Joel
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