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signal: support CLONE_PIDFD with pidfd_send_signal
Let pidfd_send_signal() use pidfds retrieved via CLONE_PIDFD.  With this
patch pidfd_send_signal() becomes independent of procfs.  This fullfils
the request made when we merged the pidfd_send_signal() patchset.  The
pidfd_send_signal() syscall is now always available allowing for it to
be used by users without procfs mounted or even users without procfs
support compiled into the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
Co-developed-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirsky <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2019-05-07 14:31:03 +02:00
arch Make anon_inodes unconditional 2019-04-19 14:03:11 +02:00
block block: Revert v5.0 blk_mq_request_issue_directly() changes 2019-04-05 09:40:46 -06:00
certs kexec, KEYS: Make use of platform keyring for signature verify 2019-02-04 17:34:07 -05:00
crypto lib/lzo: separate lzo-rle from lzo 2019-03-07 18:32:03 -08:00
Documentation ARM: SoC fixes 2019-04-07 13:46:17 -10:00
drivers Make anon_inodes unconditional 2019-04-19 14:03:11 +02:00
fs Make anon_inodes unconditional 2019-04-19 14:03:11 +02:00
include clone: add CLONE_PIDFD 2019-05-07 14:31:03 +02:00
init Make anon_inodes unconditional 2019-04-19 14:03:11 +02:00
ipc Merge branch 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-03-12 14:08:19 -07:00
kernel signal: support CLONE_PIDFD with pidfd_send_signal 2019-05-07 14:31:03 +02:00
lib Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2019-04-05 17:08:55 -10:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add GCC runtime library exception text 2019-01-16 14:54:15 -07:00
mm mm/util.c: fix strndup_user() comment 2019-04-05 16:02:31 -10:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-04-04 18:07:12 -10:00
samples Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-03-11 08:54:01 -07:00
scripts fs: stream_open - opener for stream-like files so that read and write can run simultaneously without deadlock 2019-04-06 07:01:55 -10:00
security LSM: Revive CONFIG_DEFAULT_SECURITY_* for "make oldconfig" 2019-03-29 14:08:49 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 5.1-rc3 2019-03-29 14:53:33 -07:00
tools Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-04-04 18:07:12 -10:00
usr user/Makefile: Fix typo and capitalization in comment section 2018-12-11 00:18:03 +09:00
virt KVM/ARM fixes for 5.1 2019-03-28 19:07:30 +01:00
.clang-format Merge branch 'work.iov_iter' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-03-12 13:43:42 -07:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: Add support for DT binding schema checks 2018-12-13 09:41:32 -06:00
.mailmap Update Nicolas Pitre's email address 2019-04-02 18:12:44 -10:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS Char/Misc driver patches for 5.1-rc1 2019-03-06 14:18:59 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v5.1 2019-03-10 17:48:21 -07:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: add maintainer and replacing reviewer ARM/NUVOTON NPCM 2019-04-05 16:02:31 -10:00
Makefile Linux 5.1-rc4 2019-04-07 14:09:59 -10:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.