[PATCH 1/2] pid: add pidfd_get_task() helper

[Christian Brauner]

The number of system calls making use of pidfds is constantly
increasing. Some of those new system calls duplicate the code to turn a
pidfd into task_struct it refers to. Give them a simple helper for this.

Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Bobrowski <repnop@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/linux/pid.h |  1 +
 kernel/pid.c        | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/pid.h b/include/linux/pid.h
index af308e15f174..343abf22092e 100644
--- a/include/linux/pid.h
+++ b/include/linux/pid.h
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ struct file;
 
 extern struct pid *pidfd_pid(const struct file *file);
 struct pid *pidfd_get_pid(unsigned int fd, unsigned int *flags);
+struct task_struct *pidfd_get_task(int pidfd, unsigned int *flags);
 int pidfd_create(struct pid *pid, unsigned int flags);
 
 static inline struct pid *get_pid(struct pid *pid)
diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c
index efe87db44683..2ffbb87b2ce8 100644
--- a/kernel/pid.c
+++ b/kernel/pid.c
@@ -539,6 +539,40 @@ struct pid *pidfd_get_pid(unsigned int fd, unsigned int *flags)
 	return pid;
 }
 
+/**
+ * pidfd_get_task() - Get the task associated with a pidfd
+ *
+ * @pidfd: pidfd for which to get the task
+ * @flags: flags associated with this pidfd
+ *
+ * Return the task associated with the given pidfd.
+ * Currently, the process identified by @pidfd is always a thread-group leader.
+ * This restriction currently exists for all aspects of pidfds including pidfd
+ * creation (CLONE_PIDFD cannot be used with CLONE_THREAD) and pidfd polling
+ * (only supports thread group leaders).
+ *
+ * Return: On success, the task_struct associated with the pidfd.
+ *	   On error, a negative errno number will be returned.
+ */
+struct task_struct *pidfd_get_task(int pidfd, unsigned int *flags)
+{
+	unsigned int f_flags;
+	struct pid *pid;
+	struct task_struct *task;
+
+	pid = pidfd_get_pid(pidfd, &f_flags);
+	if (IS_ERR(pid))
+		return ERR_CAST(pid);
+
+	task = get_pid_task(pid, PIDTYPE_TGID);
+	put_pid(pid);
+	if (!task)
+		return ERR_PTR(-ESRCH);
+
+	*flags = f_flags;
+	return task;
+}
+
 /**
  * pidfd_create() - Create a new pid file descriptor.
  *
-- 
2.30.2