Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] coredump: hand a pidfd to the usermode coredump helper

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 04/14, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> On 04/14, Christian Brauner wrote:
> >
> > -static int umh_pipe_setup(struct subprocess_info *info, struct cred *new)
> > +static int umh_coredump_setup(struct subprocess_info *info, struct cred *new)
> >  {
> >  	struct file *files[2];
> >  	struct coredump_params *cp = (struct coredump_params *)info->data;
> >  	int err;
> >
> > +	if (cp->pid) {
> > +		struct file *pidfs_file __free(fput) = NULL;
> > +
> > +		pidfs_file = pidfs_alloc_file(cp->pid, 0);
> > +		if (IS_ERR(pidfs_file))
> > +			return PTR_ERR(pidfs_file);
> > +
> > +		/*
> > +		 * Usermode helpers are childen of either
> > +		 * system_unbound_wq or of kthreadd. So we know that
> > +		 * we're starting off with a clean file descriptor
> > +		 * table. So we should always be able to use
> > +		 * COREDUMP_PIDFD_NUMBER as our file descriptor value.
> > +		 */
> > +		VFS_WARN_ON_ONCE((pidfs_file = fget_raw(COREDUMP_PIDFD_NUMBER)) != NULL);
> > +
> > +		err = replace_fd(COREDUMP_PIDFD_NUMBER, pidfs_file, 0);
> > +		if (err < 0)
> > +			return err;
>
> Yes, but if replace_fd() succeeds we need to nullify pidfs_file
> to avoid fput from __free(fput) ?

Aah, please ignore me ;) replace_fd/do_dup2 does get_file() .

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Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>