[RFC PATCH 2/6] um: acquire a stub pidfd via CLONE_PIDFD in seccomp mode
From: Cong Wang
Date: Fri Jul 10 2026 - 16:54:37 EST
From: Cong Wang <cwang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
In SECCOMP mode the monitor will install guest mappings into the stub's
address space directly via pidfd_mmap(), so it needs a pidfd to the
stub. Acquire one atomically at clone() time via CLONE_PIDFD (returned
through the legacy-clone parent_tid argument), store it in
mm_id->stub_pidfd, and close it on teardown. The ptrace (SKAS0) mode
does not use pidfd_mmap and leaves stub_pidfd as -1.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4.8
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <cwang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/um/include/shared/skas/mm_id.h | 1 +
arch/um/kernel/skas/mmu.c | 6 ++++++
arch/um/os-Linux/skas/process.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++--
3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/um/include/shared/skas/mm_id.h b/arch/um/include/shared/skas/mm_id.h
index 18c0621430d2..cec97189f12b 100644
--- a/arch/um/include/shared/skas/mm_id.h
+++ b/arch/um/include/shared/skas/mm_id.h
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ struct mm_id {
int syscall_data_len;
/* Only used with SECCOMP mode */
+ int stub_pidfd; /* pidfd to the stub, or -1 */
int sock;
int syscall_fd_num;
int syscall_fd_map[STUB_MAX_FDS];
diff --git a/arch/um/kernel/skas/mmu.c b/arch/um/kernel/skas/mmu.c
index b5017096028b..441dcf94ec9c 100644
--- a/arch/um/kernel/skas/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/um/kernel/skas/mmu.c
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ int init_new_context(struct task_struct *task, struct mm_struct *mm)
goto out;
new_id->stack = stack;
+ new_id->stub_pidfd = -1;
new_id->syscall_data_len = 0;
new_id->syscall_fd_num = 0;
@@ -103,6 +104,11 @@ void destroy_context(struct mm_struct *mm)
mmu->id.pid = -1;
}
+ if (mmu->id.stub_pidfd >= 0) {
+ os_close_file(mmu->id.stub_pidfd);
+ mmu->id.stub_pidfd = -1;
+ }
+
if (using_seccomp && mmu->id.sock)
os_close_file(mmu->id.sock);
diff --git a/arch/um/os-Linux/skas/process.c b/arch/um/os-Linux/skas/process.c
index d6c22f8aa06d..3dd97ca7999a 100644
--- a/arch/um/os-Linux/skas/process.c
+++ b/arch/um/os-Linux/skas/process.c
@@ -34,6 +34,10 @@
#include <asm-generic/rwonce.h>
#include "../internal.h"
+#ifndef CLONE_PIDFD
+#define CLONE_PIDFD 0x00001000
+#endif
+
int is_skas_winch(int pid, int fd, void *data)
{
return pid == getpgrp();
@@ -448,6 +452,9 @@ int start_userspace(struct mm_id *mm_id)
void *stack;
unsigned long sp;
int status, n, err;
+ int stub_pidfd = -1;
+
+ mm_id->stub_pidfd = -1;
/* setup a temporary stack page */
stack = mmap(NULL, UM_KERN_PAGE_SIZE,
@@ -474,15 +481,25 @@ int start_userspace(struct mm_id *mm_id)
if (using_seccomp)
proc_data->futex = FUTEX_IN_CHILD;
+ /*
+ * In SECCOMP mode, acquire a pidfd to the stub via CLONE_PIDFD (it is
+ * returned through the legacy-clone parent_tid argument). The monitor
+ * installs guest mappings into the stub's mm directly via pidfd_mmap(),
+ * so the stub itself never needs the mmap capability. The ptrace mode
+ * does not use it and drives the stub directly.
+ */
mm_id->pid = clone(userspace_tramp, (void *) sp,
- CLONE_VFORK | CLONE_VM | SIGCHLD,
- (void *)&tramp_data);
+ CLONE_VFORK | CLONE_VM | (using_seccomp ? CLONE_PIDFD : 0) |
+ SIGCHLD,
+ (void *)&tramp_data, &stub_pidfd);
if (mm_id->pid < 0) {
err = -errno;
printk(UM_KERN_ERR "%s : clone failed, errno = %d\n",
__func__, errno);
goto out_close;
}
+ if (using_seccomp)
+ mm_id->stub_pidfd = stub_pidfd;
if (using_seccomp) {
wait_stub_done_seccomp(mm_id, 1, 1);
@@ -534,8 +551,11 @@ int start_userspace(struct mm_id *mm_id)
out_close:
close(tramp_data.sockpair[0]);
close(tramp_data.sockpair[1]);
+ if (stub_pidfd >= 0)
+ close(stub_pidfd);
mm_id->pid = -1;
+ mm_id->stub_pidfd = -1;
return err;
}
--
2.43.0