linux/kernel/pid.c, branch v5.6

pid: make ENOMEM return value more obvious

2020-03-09T22:40:05Z

The alloc_pid() codepath used to be simpler. With the introducation of the ability to choose specific pids in 49cb2fc42ce4 ("fork: extend clone3() to support setting a PID") it got more complex. It hasn't been super obvious that ENOMEM is returned when the pid namespace init process/child subreaper of the pid namespace has died. As can be seen from multiple attempts to improve this see e.g. [1] and most recently [2]. We regressed returning ENOMEM in [3] and [2] restored it. Let's add a comment on top explaining that this is historic and documented behavior and cannot easily be changed. [1]: 35f71bc0a09a ("fork: report pid reservation failure properly") [2]: b26ebfe12f34 ("pid: Fix error return value in some cases") [3]: 49cb2fc42ce4 ("fork: extend clone3() to support setting a PID") Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

pid: Fix error return value in some cases

2020-03-08T13:22:58Z

Recent changes to alloc_pid() allow the pid number to be specified on the command line. If set_tid_size is set, then the code scanning the levels will hard-set retval to -EPERM, overriding it's previous -ENOMEM value. After the code scanning the levels, there are error returns that do not set retval, assuming it is still set to -ENOMEM. So set retval back to -ENOMEM after scanning the levels. Fixes: 49cb2fc42ce4 ("fork: extend clone3() to support setting a PID") Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard Acked-by: Christian Brauner Cc: Andrei Vagin Cc: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Adrian Reber Cc: # 5.5 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200306172314.12232-1-minyard@acm.org [christian.brauner@ubuntu.com: fixup commit message] Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

pid: Implement pidfd_getfd syscall

2020-01-13T20:49:36Z

This syscall allows for the retrieval of file descriptors from other processes, based on their pidfd. This is possible using ptrace, and injection of parasitic code to inject code which leverages SCM_RIGHTS to move file descriptors between a tracee and a tracer. Unfortunately, ptrace comes with a high cost of requiring the process to be stopped, and breaks debuggers. This does not require stopping the process under manipulation. One reason to use this is to allow sandboxers to take actions on file descriptors on the behalf of another process. For example, this can be combined with seccomp-bpf's user notification to do on-demand fd extraction and take privileged actions. One such privileged action is binding a socket to a privileged port. /* prototype */ /* flags is currently reserved and should be set to 0 */ int sys_pidfd_getfd(int pidfd, int fd, unsigned int flags); /* testing */ Ran self-test suite on x86_64 Signed-off-by: Sargun Dhillon Acked-by: Christian Brauner Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200107175927.4558-3-sargun@sargun.me Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

fork: extend clone3() to support setting a PID

2019-11-15T22:49:22Z

The main motivation to add set_tid to clone3() is CRIU. To restore a process with the same PID/TID CRIU currently uses /proc/sys/kernel/ns_last_pid. It writes the desired (PID - 1) to ns_last_pid and then (quickly) does a clone(). This works most of the time, but it is racy. It is also slow as it requires multiple syscalls. Extending clone3() to support *set_tid makes it possible restore a process using CRIU without accessing /proc/sys/kernel/ns_last_pid and race free (as long as the desired PID/TID is available). This clone3() extension places the same restrictions (CAP_SYS_ADMIN) on clone3() with *set_tid as they are currently in place for ns_last_pid. The original version of this change was using a single value for set_tid. At the 2019 LPC, after presenting set_tid, it was, however, decided to change set_tid to an array to enable setting the PID of a process in multiple PID namespaces at the same time. If a process is created in a PID namespace it is possible to influence the PID inside and outside of the PID namespace. Details also in the corresponding selftest. To create a process with the following PIDs: PID NS level Requested PID 0 (host) 31496 1 42 2 1 For that example the two newly introduced parameters to struct clone_args (set_tid and set_tid_size) would need to be: set_tid[0] = 1; set_tid[1] = 42; set_tid[2] = 31496; set_tid_size = 3; If only the PIDs of the two innermost nested PID namespaces should be defined it would look like this: set_tid[0] = 1; set_tid[1] = 42; set_tid_size = 2; The PID of the newly created process would then be the next available free PID in the PID namespace level 0 (host) and 42 in the PID namespace at level 1 and the PID of the process in the innermost PID namespace would be 1. The set_tid array is used to specify the PID of a process starting from the innermost nested PID namespaces up to set_tid_size PID namespaces. set_tid_size cannot be larger then the current PID namespace level. Signed-off-by: Adrian Reber Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov Reviewed-by: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com> Acked-by: Andrei Vagin Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191115123621.142252-1-areber@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

pid: use pid_has_task() in pidfd_open()

2019-10-17T13:37:00Z

Use the new pid_has_task() helper in pidfd_open(). This simplifies the code and avoids taking rcu_read_{lock,unlock}() and leads to overall nicer code. Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191017101832.5985-5-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com

pid: use pid_has_task() in __change_pid()

2019-10-17T13:36:56Z

Replace hlist_empty() with the new pid_has_task() helper which is more idiomatic, easier to grep for, and unifies how callers perform this check. Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191017101832.5985-3-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com

kernel/pid.c: convert struct pid count to refcount_t

2019-07-17T02:23:24Z

struct pid's count is an atomic_t field used as a refcount. Use refcount_t for it which is basically atomic_t but does additional checking to prevent use-after-free bugs. For memory ordering, the only change is with the following: - if ((atomic_read(&pid->count) == 1) || - atomic_dec_and_test(&pid->count)) { + if (refcount_dec_and_test(&pid->count)) { kmem_cache_free(ns->pid_cachep, pid); Here the change is from: Fully ordered --> RELEASE + ACQUIRE (as per refcount-vs-atomic.rst) This ACQUIRE should take care of making sure the free happens after the refcount_dec_and_test(). The above hunk also removes atomic_read() since it is not needed for the code to work and it is unclear how beneficial it is. The removal lets refcount_dec_and_test() check for cases where get_pid() happened before the object was freed. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190701183826.191936-1-joel@joelfernandes.org Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) Reviewed-by: Andrea Parri Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Elena Reshetova Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Eric W. Biederman Cc: KJ Tsanaktsidis Cc: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'pidfd-updates-v5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux

2019-07-11T05:17:21Z

Pull pidfd updates from Christian Brauner: "This adds two main features. - First, it adds polling support for pidfds. This allows process managers to know when a (non-parent) process dies in a race-free way. The notification mechanism used follows the same logic that is currently used when the parent of a task is notified of a child's death. With this patchset it is possible to put pidfds in an {e}poll loop and get reliable notifications for process (i.e. thread-group) exit. - The second feature compliments the first one by making it possible to retrieve pollable pidfds for processes that were not created using CLONE_PIDFD. A lot of processes get created with traditional PID-based calls such as fork() or clone() (without CLONE_PIDFD). For these processes a caller can currently not create a pollable pidfd. This is a problem for Android's low memory killer (LMK) and service managers such as systemd. Both patchsets are accompanied by selftests. It's perhaps worth noting that the work done so far and the work done in this branch for pidfd_open() and polling support do already see some adoption: - Android is in the process of backporting this work to all their LTS kernels [1] - Service managers make use of pidfd_send_signal but will need to wait until we enable waiting on pidfds for full adoption. - And projects I maintain make use of both pidfd_send_signal and CLONE_PIDFD [2] and will use polling support and pidfd_open() too" [1] https://android-review.googlesource.com/q/topic:%22pidfd+polling+support+4.9+backport%22 https://android-review.googlesource.com/q/topic:%22pidfd+polling+support+4.14+backport%22 https://android-review.googlesource.com/q/topic:%22pidfd+polling+support+4.19+backport%22 [2] https://github.com/lxc/lxc/blob/aab6e3eb73c343231cdde775db938994fc6f2803/src/lxc/start.c#L1753 * tag 'pidfd-updates-v5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux: tests: add pidfd_open() tests arch: wire-up pidfd_open() pid: add pidfd_open() pidfd: add polling selftests pidfd: add polling support

pid: add pidfd_open()

2019-06-28T10:17:55Z

This adds the pidfd_open() syscall. It allows a caller to retrieve pollable pidfds for a process which did not get created via CLONE_PIDFD, i.e. for a process that is created via traditional fork()/clone() calls that is only referenced by a PID: int pidfd = pidfd_open(1234, 0); ret = pidfd_send_signal(pidfd, SIGSTOP, NULL, 0); With the introduction of pidfds through CLONE_PIDFD it is possible to created pidfds at process creation time. However, a lot of processes get created with traditional PID-based calls such as fork() or clone() (without CLONE_PIDFD). For these processes a caller can currently not create a pollable pidfd. This is a problem for Android's low memory killer (LMK) and service managers such as systemd. Both are examples of tools that want to make use of pidfds to get reliable notification of process exit for non-parents (pidfd polling) and race-free signal sending (pidfd_send_signal()). They intend to switch to this API for process supervision/management as soon as possible. Having no way to get pollable pidfds from PID-only processes is one of the biggest blockers for them in adopting this api. With pidfd_open() making it possible to retrieve pidfds for PID-based processes we enable them to adopt this api. In line with Arnd's recent changes to consolidate syscall numbers across architectures, I have added the pidfd_open() syscall to all architectures at the same time. Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner Reviewed-by: David Howells Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Andy Lutomirsky Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Aleksa Sarai Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Al Viro Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org

pidfd: add polling support

2019-06-28T10:17:55Z

This patch adds polling support to pidfd. Android low memory killer (LMK) needs to know when a process dies once it is sent the kill signal. It does so by checking for the existence of /proc/pid which is both racy and slow. For example, if a PID is reused between when LMK sends a kill signal and checks for existence of the PID, since the wrong PID is now possibly checked for existence. Using the polling support, LMK will be able to get notified when a process exists in race-free and fast way, and allows the LMK to do other things (such as by polling on other fds) while awaiting the process being killed to die. For notification to polling processes, we follow the same existing mechanism in the kernel used when the parent of the task group is to be notified of a child's death (do_notify_parent). This is precisely when the tasks waiting on a poll of pidfd are also awakened in this patch. We have decided to include the waitqueue in struct pid for the following reasons: 1. The wait queue has to survive for the lifetime of the poll. Including it in task_struct would not be option in this case because the task can be reaped and destroyed before the poll returns. 2. By including the struct pid for the waitqueue means that during de_thread(), the new thread group leader automatically gets the new waitqueue/pid even though its task_struct is different. Appropriate test cases are added in the second patch to provide coverage of all the cases the patch is handling. Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Daniel Colascione Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Tim Murray Cc: Jonathan Kowalski Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Al Viro Cc: Kees Cook Cc: David Howells Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: kernel-team@android.com Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov Co-developed-by: Daniel Colascione Signed-off-by: Daniel Colascione Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner