From: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> 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. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211004125050.1153693-2-christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Bobrowski <repnop@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Matthew Bobrowski <repnop@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> --- /* v2 */ - David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>: - Also document that the caller is expected to decrease the reference count on the returned task. --- include/linux/pid.h | 1 + kernel/pid.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 37 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..2fc0a16ec77b 100644 --- a/kernel/pid.c +++ b/kernel/pid.c @@ -539,6 +539,42 @@ 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 @pidfd. The function takes a reference on + * the returned task. The caller is responsible for releasing that reference. + * + * 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
