Revert "pidfd: prevent creation of pidfds for kthreads"

This reverts commit 3b5bbe798b.

Eric reported that systemd-shutdown gets broken by blocking the creating
of pidfds for kthreads as older versions seems to rely on being able to
create a pidfd for any process in /proc.

Reported-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240818035818.GA1929@sol.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Christian Brauner 2024-08-19 10:38:23 +02:00
parent 524b2c6dc8
commit 232590ea7f
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@ -2053,24 +2053,11 @@ static int __pidfd_prepare(struct pid *pid, unsigned int flags, struct file **re
*/
int pidfd_prepare(struct pid *pid, unsigned int flags, struct file **ret)
{
if (!pid)
bool thread = flags & PIDFD_THREAD;
if (!pid || !pid_has_task(pid, thread ? PIDTYPE_PID : PIDTYPE_TGID))
return -EINVAL;
scoped_guard(rcu) {
struct task_struct *tsk;
if (flags & PIDFD_THREAD)
tsk = pid_task(pid, PIDTYPE_PID);
else
tsk = pid_task(pid, PIDTYPE_TGID);
if (!tsk)
return -EINVAL;
/* Don't create pidfds for kernel threads for now. */
if (tsk->flags & PF_KTHREAD)
return -EINVAL;
}
return __pidfd_prepare(pid, flags, ret);
}
@ -2416,12 +2403,6 @@ __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
if (clone_flags & CLONE_PIDFD) {
int flags = (clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD) ? PIDFD_THREAD : 0;
/* Don't create pidfds for kernel threads for now. */
if (args->kthread) {
retval = -EINVAL;
goto bad_fork_free_pid;
}
/* Note that no task has been attached to @pid yet. */
retval = __pidfd_prepare(pid, flags, &pidfile);
if (retval < 0)