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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2019-07-23 15:44:46 +0300
committerChristian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>2019-09-10 18:05:46 +0300
commit821cc7b0b205c0df64cce59aacc330af251fa8f7 (patch)
treefcf7e302e996a1261fecac835fad4a3882429d23 /kernel/exit.c
parentaed5a8df3dbbd804409d40f821e0768891cfd5ab (diff)
downloadlinux-821cc7b0b205c0df64cce59aacc330af251fa8f7.tar.xz
waitid: Add support for waiting for the current process group
It was recently discovered that the linux version of waitid is not a superset of the other wait functions because it does not include support for waiting for the current process group. This has two downsides: 1. An extra system call is needed to get the current process group. 2. After the current process group is received and before it is passed to waitid a signal could arrive causing the current process group to change. Inherent race-conditions as these make it impossible for userspace to emulate this functionaly and thus violate async-signal safety requirements for waitpid. Arguments can be made for using a different choice of idtype and id for this case but the BSDs already use this P_PGID and 0 to indicate waiting for the current process's process group. So be nice to user space programmers and don't introduce an unnecessary incompatibility. Some people have noted that the posix description is that waitpid will wait for the current process group, and that in the presence of pthreads that process group can change. To get clarity on this issue I looked at XNU, FreeBSD, and Luminos. All of those flavors of unix waited for the current process group at the time of call and as written could not adapt to the process group changing after the call. At one point Linux did adapt to the current process group changing but that stopped in 161550d74c07 ("pid: sys_wait... fixes"). It has been over 11 years since Linux has that behavior, no programs that fail with the change in behavior have been reported, and I could not find any other unix that does this. So I think it is safe to clarify the definition of current process group, to current process group at the time of the wait function. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com> Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> Cc: Alistair Francis <alistair23@gmail.com> Cc: Zong Li <zongbox@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> Cc: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190814154400.6371-2-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/exit.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/exit.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 64bb6893a37d..d2d74a7b81d1 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -1596,10 +1596,13 @@ static long kernel_waitid(int which, pid_t upid, struct waitid_info *infop,
break;
case P_PGID:
type = PIDTYPE_PGID;
- if (upid <= 0)
+ if (upid < 0)
return -EINVAL;
- pid = find_get_pid(upid);
+ if (upid)
+ pid = find_get_pid(upid);
+ else
+ pid = get_task_pid(current, PIDTYPE_PGID);
break;
case P_PIDFD:
type = PIDTYPE_PID;