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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-01-29 19:38:34 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-01-29 19:38:34 -0800 |
commit | 83fa805bcbfc53ae82eedd65132794ae324798e5 (patch) | |
tree | ff4b2ba048bb5f14194110aedb09c85aab159d4a /arch/mips | |
parent | 896f8d23d0cb5889021d66eab6107e97109c5459 (diff) | |
parent | 8d19f1c8e1937baf74e1962aae9f90fa3aeab463 (diff) |
Merge tag 'threads-v5.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux
Pull thread management updates from Christian Brauner:
"Sargun Dhillon over the last cycle has worked on the pidfd_getfd()
syscall.
This syscall allows for the retrieval of file descriptors of a process
based on its pidfd. A task needs to have ptrace_may_access()
permissions with PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH_REALCREDS (suggested by Oleg and
Andy) on the target.
One of the main use-cases is in combination with seccomp's user
notification feature. As a reminder, seccomp's user notification
feature was made available in v5.0. It allows a task to retrieve a
file descriptor for its seccomp filter. The file descriptor is usually
handed of to a more privileged supervising process. The supervisor can
then listen for syscall events caught by the seccomp filter of the
supervisee and perform actions in lieu of the supervisee, usually
emulating syscalls. pidfd_getfd() is needed to expand its uses.
There are currently two major users that wait on pidfd_getfd() and one
future user:
- Netflix, Sargun said, is working on a service mesh where users
should be able to connect to a dns-based VIP. When a user connects
to e.g. 1.2.3.4:80 that runs e.g. service "foo" they will be
redirected to an envoy process. This service mesh uses seccomp user
notifications and pidfd to intercept all connect calls and instead
of connecting them to 1.2.3.4:80 connects them to e.g.
127.0.0.1:8080.
- LXD uses the seccomp notifier heavily to intercept and emulate
mknod() and mount() syscalls for unprivileged containers/processes.
With pidfd_getfd() more uses-cases e.g. bridging socket connections
will be possible.
- The patchset has also seen some interest from the browser corner.
Right now, Firefox is using a SECCOMP_RET_TRAP sandbox managed by a
broker process. In the future glibc will start blocking all signals
during dlopen() rendering this type of sandbox impossible. Hence,
in the future Firefox will switch to a seccomp-user-nofication
based sandbox which also makes use of file descriptor retrieval.
The thread for this can be found at
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2019-12/msg00079.html
With pidfd_getfd() it is e.g. possible to bridge socket connections
for the supervisee (binding to a privileged port) and taking actions
on file descriptors on behalf of the supervisee in general.
Sargun's first version was using an ioctl on pidfds but various people
pushed for it to be a proper syscall which he duely implemented as
well over various review cycles. Selftests are of course included.
I've also added instructions how to deal with merge conflicts below.
There's also a small fix coming from the kernel mentee project to
correctly annotate struct sighand_struct with __rcu to fix various
sparse warnings. We've received a few more such fixes and even though
they are mostly trivial I've decided to postpone them until after -rc1
since they came in rather late and I don't want to risk introducing
build warnings.
Finally, there's a new prctl() command PR_{G,S}ET_IO_FLUSHER which is
needed to avoid allocation recursions triggerable by storage drivers
that have userspace parts that run in the IO path (e.g. dm-multipath,
iscsi, etc). These allocation recursions deadlock the device.
The new prctl() allows such privileged userspace components to avoid
allocation recursions by setting the PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO and
PF_LESS_THROTTLE flags. The patch carries the necessary acks from the
relevant maintainers and is routed here as part of prctl()
thread-management."
* tag 'threads-v5.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
prctl: PR_{G,S}ET_IO_FLUSHER to support controlling memory reclaim
sched.h: Annotate sighand_struct with __rcu
test: Add test for pidfd getfd
arch: wire up pidfd_getfd syscall
pid: Implement pidfd_getfd syscall
vfs, fdtable: Add fget_task helper
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/mips')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n32.tbl | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n64.tbl | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_o32.tbl | 1 |
3 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n32.tbl b/arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n32.tbl index 68c9ec06851f..1f9e8ad636cc 100644 --- a/arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n32.tbl +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n32.tbl @@ -375,3 +375,4 @@ 434 n32 pidfd_open sys_pidfd_open 435 n32 clone3 __sys_clone3 437 n32 openat2 sys_openat2 +438 n32 pidfd_getfd sys_pidfd_getfd diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n64.tbl b/arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n64.tbl index 42a72d010050..c0b9d802dbf6 100644 --- a/arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n64.tbl +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n64.tbl @@ -351,3 +351,4 @@ 434 n64 pidfd_open sys_pidfd_open 435 n64 clone3 __sys_clone3 437 n64 openat2 sys_openat2 +438 n64 pidfd_getfd sys_pidfd_getfd diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_o32.tbl b/arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_o32.tbl index f114c4aed0ed..ac586774c980 100644 --- a/arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_o32.tbl +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_o32.tbl @@ -424,3 +424,4 @@ 434 o32 pidfd_open sys_pidfd_open 435 o32 clone3 __sys_clone3 437 o32 openat2 sys_openat2 +438 o32 pidfd_getfd sys_pidfd_getfd |