Re: [RFC 1/3] pidfd: allow pidfd_open() on non-thread-group leaders

From: Tycho Andersen
Date: Fri Dec 01 2023 - 11:31:50 EST


On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 10:57:01AM -0700, Tycho Andersen wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 06:39:39PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > I think that wake_up_all(wait_pidfd) should have a single caller,
> > do_notify_pidfd(). This probably means it should be shiftef from
> > do_notify_parent() to exit_notify(), I am not sure...

Indeed, below passes the tests without issue and is much less ugly.
I'll respin with that later next week sometime.

Thanks,

Tycho


diff --git a/include/linux/sched/signal.h b/include/linux/sched/signal.h
index 3499c1a8b929..04c4423ebed0 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/signal.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/signal.h
@@ -332,6 +332,7 @@ extern int kill_pid_usb_asyncio(int sig, int errno, sigval_t addr, struct pid *,
extern int kill_pgrp(struct pid *pid, int sig, int priv);
extern int kill_pid(struct pid *pid, int sig, int priv);
extern __must_check bool do_notify_parent(struct task_struct *, int);
+extern void do_notify_pidfd(struct task_struct *);
extern void __wake_up_parent(struct task_struct *p, struct task_struct *parent);
extern void force_sig(int);
extern void force_fatal_sig(int);
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 34eeefc7ee21..fd6048c20c48 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -769,6 +769,8 @@ static void exit_notify(struct task_struct *tsk, int group_dead)
wake_up_process(tsk->signal->group_exec_task);
write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);

+ do_notify_pidfd(tsk);
+
list_for_each_entry_safe(p, n, &dead, ptrace_entry) {
list_del_init(&p->ptrace_entry);
release_task(p);
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 47a7602dfe8d..7b3a1e147225 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -2028,7 +2028,7 @@ int send_sigqueue(struct sigqueue *q, struct pid *pid, enum pid_type type)
return ret;
}

-static void do_notify_pidfd(struct task_struct *task)
+void do_notify_pidfd(struct task_struct *task)
{
struct pid *pid;

@@ -2060,9 +2060,6 @@ bool do_notify_parent(struct task_struct *tsk, int sig)
WARN_ON_ONCE(!tsk->ptrace &&
(tsk->group_leader != tsk || !thread_group_empty(tsk)));

- /* Wake up all pidfd waiters */
- do_notify_pidfd(tsk);
-
if (sig != SIGCHLD) {
/*
* This is only possible if parent == real_parent.