[PATCH 08/22] pidfs: expose coredump signal

From: Christian Brauner

Date: Tue Oct 28 2025 - 04:46:37 EST


Userspace needs access to the signal that caused the coredump before the
coredumping process has been reaped. Expose it as part of the coredump
information in struct pidfd_info. After the process has been reaped that
info is also available as part of PIDFD_INFO_EXIT's exit_code field.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/pidfs.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++-----------
include/uapi/linux/pidfd.h | 7 +++++--
2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/pidfs.c b/fs/pidfs.c
index a3b80be3b98b..354ceb2126e7 100644
--- a/fs/pidfs.c
+++ b/fs/pidfs.c
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ void pidfs_get_root(struct path *path)

enum pidfs_attr_mask_bits {
PIDFS_ATTR_BIT_EXIT = 0,
+ PIDFS_ATTR_BIT_COREDUMP = 1,
};

struct pidfs_attr {
@@ -51,6 +52,7 @@ struct pidfs_attr {
__s32 exit_code;
};
__u32 coredump_mask;
+ __u32 coredump_signal;
};

static struct rb_root pidfs_ino_tree = RB_ROOT;
@@ -297,7 +299,8 @@ static __u32 pidfs_coredump_mask(unsigned long mm_flags)
PIDFD_INFO_CGROUPID | \
PIDFD_INFO_EXIT | \
PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP | \
- PIDFD_INFO_SUPPORTED_MASK)
+ PIDFD_INFO_SUPPORTED_MASK | \
+ PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP_SIGNAL)

static long pidfd_info(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
{
@@ -342,9 +345,12 @@ static long pidfd_info(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
}

if (mask & PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP) {
- kinfo.coredump_mask = READ_ONCE(attr->coredump_mask);
- if (kinfo.coredump_mask)
- kinfo.mask |= PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP;
+ if (test_bit(PIDFS_ATTR_BIT_COREDUMP, &attr->attr_mask)) {
+ smp_rmb();
+ kinfo.mask |= PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP | PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP_SIGNAL;
+ kinfo.coredump_mask = attr->coredump_mask;
+ kinfo.coredump_signal = attr->coredump_signal;
+ }
}

task = get_pid_task(pid, PIDTYPE_PID);
@@ -370,6 +376,7 @@ static long pidfd_info(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)

kinfo.coredump_mask = pidfs_coredump_mask(flags);
kinfo.mask |= PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP;
+ /* No coredump actually took place, so no coredump signal. */
}
}

@@ -666,20 +673,21 @@ void pidfs_coredump(const struct coredump_params *cprm)
{
struct pid *pid = cprm->pid;
struct pidfs_attr *attr;
- __u32 coredump_mask = 0;

attr = READ_ONCE(pid->attr);

VFS_WARN_ON_ONCE(!attr);
VFS_WARN_ON_ONCE(attr == PIDFS_PID_DEAD);

- /* Note how we were coredumped. */
- coredump_mask = pidfs_coredump_mask(cprm->mm_flags);
- /* Note that we actually did coredump. */
- coredump_mask |= PIDFD_COREDUMPED;
+ /* Note how we were coredumped and that we coredumped. */
+ attr->coredump_mask = pidfs_coredump_mask(cprm->mm_flags) |
+ PIDFD_COREDUMPED;
/* If coredumping is set to skip we should never end up here. */
- VFS_WARN_ON_ONCE(coredump_mask & PIDFD_COREDUMP_SKIP);
- smp_store_release(&attr->coredump_mask, coredump_mask);
+ VFS_WARN_ON_ONCE(attr->coredump_mask & PIDFD_COREDUMP_SKIP);
+ /* Expose the signal number that caused the coredump. */
+ attr->coredump_signal = cprm->siginfo->si_signo;
+ smp_wmb();
+ set_bit(PIDFS_ATTR_BIT_COREDUMP, &attr->attr_mask);
}
#endif

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/pidfd.h b/include/uapi/linux/pidfd.h
index e05caa0e00fe..ea9a6811fc76 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/pidfd.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/pidfd.h
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
#define PIDFD_INFO_EXIT (1UL << 3) /* Only returned if requested. */
#define PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP (1UL << 4) /* Only returned if requested. */
#define PIDFD_INFO_SUPPORTED_MASK (1UL << 5) /* Want/got supported mask flags */
+#define PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP_SIGNAL (1UL << 6) /* Always returned if PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP is requested. */

#define PIDFD_INFO_SIZE_VER0 64 /* sizeof first published struct */
#define PIDFD_INFO_SIZE_VER1 72 /* sizeof second published struct */
@@ -94,8 +95,10 @@ struct pidfd_info {
__u32 fsuid;
__u32 fsgid;
__s32 exit_code;
- __u32 coredump_mask;
- __u32 __spare1;
+ struct /* coredump info */ {
+ __u32 coredump_mask;
+ __u32 coredump_signal;
+ };
__u64 supported_mask; /* Mask flags that this kernel supports */
};


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