From 64bef697d33b75fc06c5789b3f8108680271529f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 14:26:02 +0100 Subject: pidfd: implement PIDFD_THREAD flag for pidfd_open() With this flag: - pidfd_open() doesn't require that the target task must be a thread-group leader - pidfd_poll() succeeds when the task exits and becomes a zombie (iow, passes exit_notify()), even if it is a leader and thread-group is not empty. This means that the behaviour of pidfd_poll(PIDFD_THREAD, pid-of-group-leader) is not well defined if it races with exec() from its sub-thread; pidfd_poll() can succeed or not depending on whether pidfd_task_exited() is called before or after exchange_tids(). Perhaps we can improve this behaviour later, pidfd_poll() can probably take sig->group_exec_task into account. But this doesn't really differ from the case when the leader exits before other threads (so pidfd_poll() succeeds) and then another thread execs and pidfd_poll() will block again. thread_group_exited() is no longer used, perhaps it can die. Co-developed-by: Tycho Andersen Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240131132602.GA23641@redhat.com Tested-by: Tycho Andersen Reviewed-by: Tycho Andersen Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner --- kernel/exit.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/exit.c') diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index 3988a02efaef..c038d10dfb38 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -739,6 +739,13 @@ static void exit_notify(struct task_struct *tsk, int group_dead) kill_orphaned_pgrp(tsk->group_leader, NULL); tsk->exit_state = EXIT_ZOMBIE; + /* + * sub-thread or delay_group_leader(), wake up the + * PIDFD_THREAD waiters. + */ + if (!thread_group_empty(tsk)) + do_notify_pidfd(tsk); + if (unlikely(tsk->ptrace)) { int sig = thread_group_leader(tsk) && thread_group_empty(tsk) && -- cgit v1.2.3