From 6da73d15258a1e5e86d03d4ffba8776d17a8a287 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christian Brauner Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2020 12:21:27 +0200 Subject: pidfd: support PIDFD_NONBLOCK in pidfd_open() Introduce PIDFD_NONBLOCK to support non-blocking pidfd file descriptors. Ever since the introduction of pidfds and more advanced async io various programming languages such as Rust have grown support for async event libraries. These libraries are created to help build epoll-based event loops around file descriptors. A common pattern is to automatically make all file descriptors they manage to O_NONBLOCK. For such libraries the EAGAIN error code is treated specially. When a function is called that returns EAGAIN the function isn't called again until the event loop indicates the the file descriptor is ready. Supporting EAGAIN when waiting on pidfds makes such libraries just work with little effort. In the following patch we will extend waitid() internally to support non-blocking pidfds. This introduces a new flag PIDFD_NONBLOCK that is equivalent to O_NONBLOCK. This follows the same patterns we have for other (anon inode) file descriptors such as EFD_NONBLOCK, IN_NONBLOCK, SFD_NONBLOCK, TFD_NONBLOCK and the same for close-on-exec flags. Suggested-by: Josh Triplett Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Sargun Dhillon Cc: Oleg Nesterov Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200811181236.GA18763@localhost/ Link: https://github.com/joshtriplett/async-pidfd Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200902102130.147672-2-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com --- kernel/pid.c | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/pid.c') diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c index b2562a7ce525..74ddbff1a6ba 100644 --- a/kernel/pid.c +++ b/kernel/pid.c @@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include struct pid init_struct_pid = { .count = REFCOUNT_INIT(1), @@ -522,7 +523,8 @@ struct pid *find_ge_pid(int nr, struct pid_namespace *ns) /** * pidfd_create() - Create a new pid file descriptor. * - * @pid: struct pid that the pidfd will reference + * @pid: struct pid that the pidfd will reference + * @flags: flags to pass * * This creates a new pid file descriptor with the O_CLOEXEC flag set. * @@ -532,12 +534,12 @@ struct pid *find_ge_pid(int nr, struct pid_namespace *ns) * Return: On success, a cloexec pidfd is returned. * On error, a negative errno number will be returned. */ -static int pidfd_create(struct pid *pid) +static int pidfd_create(struct pid *pid, unsigned int flags) { int fd; fd = anon_inode_getfd("[pidfd]", &pidfd_fops, get_pid(pid), - O_RDWR | O_CLOEXEC); + flags | O_RDWR | O_CLOEXEC); if (fd < 0) put_pid(pid); @@ -565,7 +567,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(pidfd_open, pid_t, pid, unsigned int, flags) int fd; struct pid *p; - if (flags) + if (flags & ~PIDFD_NONBLOCK) return -EINVAL; if (pid <= 0) @@ -576,7 +578,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(pidfd_open, pid_t, pid, unsigned int, flags) return -ESRCH; if (pid_has_task(p, PIDTYPE_TGID)) - fd = pidfd_create(p); + fd = pidfd_create(p, flags); else fd = -EINVAL; -- cgit