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authorTycho Andersen <tandersen@netflix.com>2024-02-07 10:19:29 +0100
committerChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>2024-02-07 12:09:44 +0100
commit0c9bd6bc4bb2ecfe8ce12e9a77ccd762dabe18b4 (patch)
tree1dbd5b043ffe82884c4e95b1c7aa9bd8afef273e /kernel/pid.c
parent83b290c9e3b5d95891f43a4aeadf6071cbff25d3 (diff)
pidfd: getfd should always report ESRCH if a task is exiting
We can get EBADF from pidfd_getfd() if a task is currently exiting, which might be confusing. Let's check PF_EXITING, and just report ESRCH if so. I chose PF_EXITING, because it is set in exit_signals(), which is called before exit_files(). Since ->exit_status is mostly set after exit_files() in exit_notify(), using that still leaves a window open for the race. Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Tycho Andersen <tandersen@netflix.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240206192357.81942-1-tycho@tycho.pizza Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/pid.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/pid.c21
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c
index de0bf2f8d18b..c1d940fbd314 100644
--- a/kernel/pid.c
+++ b/kernel/pid.c
@@ -678,7 +678,26 @@ static struct file *__pidfd_fget(struct task_struct *task, int fd)
up_read(&task->signal->exec_update_lock);
- return file ?: ERR_PTR(-EBADF);
+ if (!file) {
+ /*
+ * It is possible that the target thread is exiting; it can be
+ * either:
+ * 1. before exit_signals(), which gives a real fd
+ * 2. before exit_files() takes the task_lock() gives a real fd
+ * 3. after exit_files() releases task_lock(), ->files is NULL;
+ * this has PF_EXITING, since it was set in exit_signals(),
+ * __pidfd_fget() returns EBADF.
+ * In case 3 we get EBADF, but that really means ESRCH, since
+ * the task is currently exiting and has freed its files
+ * struct, so we fix it up.
+ */
+ if (task->flags & PF_EXITING)
+ file = ERR_PTR(-ESRCH);
+ else
+ file = ERR_PTR(-EBADF);
+ }
+
+ return file;
}
static int pidfd_getfd(struct pid *pid, int fd)