From dfd78546c95330db2252e0d7e937a15ab5eddb4e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christian Brauner Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 09:45:50 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] pidfd: add a new supported_mask field Some of the future fields in struct pidfd_info can be optional. If the kernel has nothing to emit in that field, then it doesn't set the flag in the reply. This presents a problem: There is currently no way to know what mask flags the kernel supports since one can't always count on them being in the reply. Add a new PIDFD_INFO_SUPPORTED_MASK flag and field that the kernel can set in the reply. Userspace can use this to determine if the fields it requires from the kernel are supported. This also gives us a way to deprecate fields in the future, if that should become necessary. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251028-work-coredump-signal-v1-5-ca449b7b7aa0@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner --- fs/pidfs.c | 17 ++++++++++++++++- include/uapi/linux/pidfd.h | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/pidfs.c b/fs/pidfs.c index 7e4d90cc74ff9..204ebd32791a3 100644 --- a/fs/pidfs.c +++ b/fs/pidfs.c @@ -293,6 +293,14 @@ static __u32 pidfs_coredump_mask(unsigned long mm_flags) return 0; } +/* This must be updated whenever a new flag is added */ +#define PIDFD_INFO_SUPPORTED (PIDFD_INFO_PID | \ + PIDFD_INFO_CREDS | \ + PIDFD_INFO_CGROUPID | \ + PIDFD_INFO_EXIT | \ + PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP | \ + PIDFD_INFO_SUPPORTED_MASK) + static long pidfd_info(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) { struct pidfd_info __user *uinfo = (struct pidfd_info __user *)arg; @@ -306,7 +314,7 @@ static long pidfd_info(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) const struct cred *c; __u64 mask; - BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct pidfd_info) != PIDFD_INFO_SIZE_VER1); + BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct pidfd_info) != PIDFD_INFO_SIZE_VER2); if (!uinfo) return -EINVAL; @@ -412,6 +420,13 @@ static long pidfd_info(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) return -ESRCH; copy_out: + if (mask & PIDFD_INFO_SUPPORTED_MASK) { + kinfo.mask |= PIDFD_INFO_SUPPORTED_MASK; + kinfo.supported_mask = PIDFD_INFO_SUPPORTED; + } + + /* Are there bits in the return mask not present in PIDFD_INFO_SUPPORTED? */ + WARN_ON_ONCE(~PIDFD_INFO_SUPPORTED & kinfo.mask); /* * If userspace and the kernel have the same struct size it can just * be copied. If userspace provides an older struct, only the bits that diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/pidfd.h b/include/uapi/linux/pidfd.h index 6ccbabd9a68d8..e05caa0e00fe9 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/pidfd.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/pidfd.h @@ -26,9 +26,11 @@ #define PIDFD_INFO_CGROUPID (1UL << 2) /* Always returned if available, even if not requested */ #define PIDFD_INFO_EXIT (1UL << 3) /* Only returned if requested. */ #define PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP (1UL << 4) /* Only returned if requested. */ +#define PIDFD_INFO_SUPPORTED_MASK (1UL << 5) /* Want/got supported mask flags */ #define PIDFD_INFO_SIZE_VER0 64 /* sizeof first published struct */ #define PIDFD_INFO_SIZE_VER1 72 /* sizeof second published struct */ +#define PIDFD_INFO_SIZE_VER2 80 /* sizeof third published struct */ /* * Values for @coredump_mask in pidfd_info. @@ -94,6 +96,7 @@ struct pidfd_info { __s32 exit_code; __u32 coredump_mask; __u32 __spare1; + __u64 supported_mask; /* Mask flags that this kernel supports */ }; #define PIDFS_IOCTL_MAGIC 0xFF -- 2.47.3