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diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 1450689302d9..8b8169623850 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@
#include <linux/cgroup.h>
#include <linux/audit.h>
#include <linux/sysctl.h>
+#include <uapi/linux/pidfd.h>
#define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
#include <trace/events/signal.h>
@@ -1436,7 +1437,8 @@ void lockdep_assert_task_sighand_held(struct task_struct *task)
#endif
/*
- * send signal info to all the members of a group
+ * send signal info to all the members of a thread group or to the
+ * individual thread if type == PIDTYPE_PID.
*/
int group_send_sig_info(int sig, struct kernel_siginfo *info,
struct task_struct *p, enum pid_type type)
@@ -1478,7 +1480,8 @@ int __kill_pgrp_info(int sig, struct kernel_siginfo *info, struct pid *pgrp)
return ret;
}
-int kill_pid_info(int sig, struct kernel_siginfo *info, struct pid *pid)
+static int kill_pid_info_type(int sig, struct kernel_siginfo *info,
+ struct pid *pid, enum pid_type type)
{
int error = -ESRCH;
struct task_struct *p;
@@ -1487,11 +1490,10 @@ int kill_pid_info(int sig, struct kernel_siginfo *info, struct pid *pid)
rcu_read_lock();
p = pid_task(pid, PIDTYPE_PID);
if (p)
- error = group_send_sig_info(sig, info, p, PIDTYPE_TGID);
+ error = group_send_sig_info(sig, info, p, type);
rcu_read_unlock();
if (likely(!p || error != -ESRCH))
return error;
-
/*
* The task was unhashed in between, try again. If it
* is dead, pid_task() will return NULL, if we race with
@@ -1500,6 +1502,11 @@ int kill_pid_info(int sig, struct kernel_siginfo *info, struct pid *pid)
}
}
+int kill_pid_info(int sig, struct kernel_siginfo *info, struct pid *pid)
+{
+ return kill_pid_info_type(sig, info, pid, PIDTYPE_TGID);
+}
+
static int kill_proc_info(int sig, struct kernel_siginfo *info, pid_t pid)
{
int error;
@@ -3873,14 +3880,10 @@ static struct pid *pidfd_to_pid(const struct file *file)
* @info: signal info
* @flags: future flags
*
- * The syscall currently only signals via PIDTYPE_PID which covers
- * kill(<positive-pid>, <signal>. It does not signal threads or process
- * groups.
- * In order to extend the syscall to threads and process groups the @flags
- * argument should be used. In essence, the @flags argument will determine
- * what is signaled and not the file descriptor itself. Put in other words,
- * grouping is a property of the flags argument not a property of the file
- * descriptor.
+ * Send the signal to the thread group or to the individual thread depending
+ * on PIDFD_THREAD.
+ * In the future extension to @flags may be used to override the default scope
+ * of @pidfd.
*
* Return: 0 on success, negative errno on failure
*/
@@ -3891,6 +3894,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(pidfd_send_signal, int, pidfd, int, sig,
struct fd f;
struct pid *pid;
kernel_siginfo_t kinfo;
+ enum pid_type type;
/* Enforce flags be set to 0 until we add an extension. */
if (flags)
@@ -3911,6 +3915,11 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(pidfd_send_signal, int, pidfd, int, sig,
if (!access_pidfd_pidns(pid))
goto err;
+ if (f.file->f_flags & PIDFD_THREAD)
+ type = PIDTYPE_PID;
+ else
+ type = PIDTYPE_TGID;
+
if (info) {
ret = copy_siginfo_from_user_any(&kinfo, info);
if (unlikely(ret))
@@ -3926,12 +3935,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(pidfd_send_signal, int, pidfd, int, sig,
(kinfo.si_code >= 0 || kinfo.si_code == SI_TKILL))
goto err;
} else {
- prepare_kill_siginfo(sig, &kinfo, PIDTYPE_TGID);
+ prepare_kill_siginfo(sig, &kinfo, type);
}
- /* TODO: respect PIDFD_THREAD */
- ret = kill_pid_info(sig, &kinfo, pid);
-
+ ret = kill_pid_info_type(sig, &kinfo, pid, type);
err:
fdput(f);
return ret;