pidfd: add PIDFD_SELF* sentinels to refer to own thread/process

It is useful to be able to utilise the pidfd mechanism to reference the
current thread or process (from a userland point of view - thread group
leader from the kernel's point of view).

Therefore introduce PIDFD_SELF_THREAD to refer to the current thread, and
PIDFD_SELF_THREAD_GROUP to refer to the current thread group leader.

For convenience and to avoid confusion from userland's perspective we alias
these:

* PIDFD_SELF is an alias for PIDFD_SELF_THREAD - This is nearly always what
  the user will want to use, as they would find it surprising if for
  instance fd's were unshared()'d and they wanted to invoke pidfd_getfd()
  and that failed.

* PIDFD_SELF_PROCESS is an alias for PIDFD_SELF_THREAD_GROUP - Most users
  have no concept of thread groups or what a thread group leader is, and
  from userland's perspective and nomenclature this is what userland
  considers to be a process.

We adjust pidfd_get_task() and the pidfd_send_signal() system call with
specific handling for this, implementing this functionality for
process_madvise(), process_mrelease() (albeit, using it here wouldn't
really make sense) and pidfd_send_signal().

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/24315a16a3d01a548dd45c7515f7d51c767e954e.1738268370.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c
index 924084713be8..22f5d2b2e290 100644
--- a/kernel/pid.c
+++ b/kernel/pid.c
@@ -564,15 +564,29 @@ struct pid *pidfd_get_pid(unsigned int fd, unsigned int *flags)
  */
 struct task_struct *pidfd_get_task(int pidfd, unsigned int *flags)
 {
-	unsigned int f_flags;
+	unsigned int f_flags = 0;
 	struct pid *pid;
 	struct task_struct *task;
+	enum pid_type type;
 
-	pid = pidfd_get_pid(pidfd, &f_flags);
-	if (IS_ERR(pid))
-		return ERR_CAST(pid);
+	switch (pidfd) {
+	case  PIDFD_SELF_THREAD:
+		type = PIDTYPE_PID;
+		pid = get_task_pid(current, type);
+		break;
+	case  PIDFD_SELF_THREAD_GROUP:
+		type = PIDTYPE_TGID;
+		pid = get_task_pid(current, type);
+		break;
+	default:
+		pid = pidfd_get_pid(pidfd, &f_flags);
+		if (IS_ERR(pid))
+			return ERR_CAST(pid);
+		type = PIDTYPE_TGID;
+		break;
+	}
 
-	task = get_pid_task(pid, PIDTYPE_TGID);
+	task = get_pid_task(pid, type);
 	put_pid(pid);
 	if (!task)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ESRCH);