On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 04:38:58PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 05/15, Christian Brauner wrote:
> >
> > +SYSCALL_DEFINE2(pidfd_open, pid_t, pid, unsigned int, flags)
> > +{
> > + int fd, ret;
> > + struct pid *p;
> > + struct task_struct *tsk;
> > +
> > + if (flags)
> > + return -EINVAL;
> > +
> > + if (pid <= 0)
> > + return -EINVAL;
> > +
> > + p = find_get_pid(pid);
> > + if (!p)
> > + return -ESRCH;
> > +
> > + rcu_read_lock();
> > + tsk = pid_task(p, PIDTYPE_PID);
>
> You do not need find_get_pid() before rcu_lock and put_pid() at the end.
> You can just do find_vpid() under rcu_read_lock().
Will do.
>
> > + if (!tsk)
> > + ret = -ESRCH;
> > + else if (unlikely(!thread_group_leader(tsk)))
> > + ret = -EINVAL;
>
> it seems that you can do a single check
>
> tsk = pid_task(p, PIDTYPE_TGID);
> if (!tsk)
> ret = -ESRCH;
>
> this even looks more correct if we race with exec changing the leader.
The logic here being that you can only reach the thread_group leader
from struct pid if PIDTYPE_PID == PIDTYPE_TGID for this struct pid?
Thanks, Oleg.
Christian
