Hey Linus,
/* Summary */
This adds a new ioctl to retrieve information about a pidfd.
A common pattern when using pidfds is having to get information about
the process, which currently requires /proc being mounted, resolving the
fd to a pid, and then do manual string parsing of /proc/N/status and
friends. This needs to be reimplemented over and over in all userspace
projects (e.g.: it has been reimplemented in systemd, dbus, dbus-daemon,
polkit so far), and requires additional care in checking that the fd is
still valid after having parsed the data, to avoid races.
Having a programmatic API that can be used directly removes all these
requirements, including having /proc mounted.
As discussed at LPC24, add an ioctl with an extensible struct so that
more parameters can be added later if needed. Start with returning
pid/tgid/ppid and some creds unconditionally, and cgroupid optionally.
/* Testing */
gcc version 14.2.0 (Debian 14.2.0-6)
Debian clang version 16.0.6 (27+b1)
All patches are based on v6.12-rc3 and have been sitting in linux-next.
No build failures or warnings were observed.
/* Conflicts */
Merge conflicts with mainline
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No known conflicts.
Merge conflicts with other trees
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No known conflicts.
The following changes since commit 8e929cb546ee42c9a61d24fae60605e9e3192354:
Linux 6.12-rc3 (2024-10-13 14:33:32 -0700)
are available in the Git repository at:
git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs tags/vfs-6.13.pidfs
for you to fetch changes up to cdda1f26e74bac732eca537a69f19f6a37b641be:
pidfd: add ioctl to retrieve pid info (2024-10-24 13:54:51 +0200)
Please consider pulling these changes from the signed vfs-6.13.pidfs tag.
Thanks!
Christian
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vfs-6.13.pidfs
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Luca Boccassi (1):
pidfd: add ioctl to retrieve pid info
fs/pidfs.c | 86 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
include/uapi/linux/pidfd.h | 50 ++++++++++++++
tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/pidfd_open_test.c | 82 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
3 files changed, 214 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
