[PATCH] fs, proc: introduce CONFIG_PROC_CHILDREN

["Iago López Galeiras" <iago@endocode.com>]

commit 818411616baf ("fs, proc: introduce
/proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children entry") introduced the children entry
for checkpoint restore and the file is only available on kernels
configured with CONFIG_EXPERT and CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE.

This is available in most distributions (Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, CoreOS)
because they usually enable CONFIG_EXPERT and CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE.
But Arch does not enable CONFIG_EXPERT or CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE.

However, the children proc file is useful outside of checkpoint restore.
I would like to use it in rkt. The rkt process exec() another program it
does not control, and that other program will fork()+exec() a child
process. I would like to find the pid of the child process from an
external tool without iterating in /proc over all processes to find
which one has a parent pid equal to rkt.

This commit introduces CONFIG_PROC_CHILDREN and makes
CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE depend on it. This allows enabling
/proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children without needing to enable
CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE and CONFIG_EXPERT.

Alban tested that /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children is present when the
kernel is configured with CONFIG_PROC_CHILDREN=y but without
CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE

Signed-off-by: Iago López Galeiras <iago@endocode.com>
Cc: Alban Crequy <alban@endocode.com>
Tested-by: Alban Crequy <alban@endocode.com>
---
 fs/proc/Kconfig | 4 ++++
 fs/proc/array.c | 4 ++--
 fs/proc/base.c  | 2 +-
 init/Kconfig    | 1 +
 4 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/proc/Kconfig b/fs/proc/Kconfig
index 2183fcf..d751fcb 100644
--- a/fs/proc/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/proc/Kconfig
@@ -71,3 +71,7 @@ config PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
 	  /proc/pid/smaps, /proc/pid/clear_refs, /proc/pid/pagemap,
 	  /proc/kpagecount, and /proc/kpageflags. Disabling these
           interfaces will reduce the size of the kernel by approximately 4kb.
+
+config PROC_CHILDREN
+	bool "Include /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children file"
+	default n
diff --git a/fs/proc/array.c b/fs/proc/array.c
index fd02a9e..ddc4b2c 100644
--- a/fs/proc/array.c
+++ b/fs/proc/array.c
@@ -569,7 +569,7 @@ int proc_pid_statm(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
 	return 0;
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
+#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_CHILDREN
 static struct pid *
 get_children_pid(struct inode *inode, struct pid *pid_prev, loff_t pos)
 {
@@ -692,4 +692,4 @@ const struct file_operations proc_tid_children_operations = {
 	.llseek  = seq_lseek,
 	.release = children_seq_release,
 };
-#endif /* CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE */
+#endif /* CONFIG_PROC_CHILDREN */
diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index 093ca14..5477a4a 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -2922,7 +2922,7 @@ static const struct pid_entry tid_base_stuff[] = {
 	ONE("stat",      S_IRUGO, proc_tid_stat),
 	ONE("statm",     S_IRUGO, proc_pid_statm),
 	REG("maps",      S_IRUGO, proc_tid_maps_operations),
-#ifdef CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
+#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_CHILDREN
 	REG("children",  S_IRUGO, proc_tid_children_operations),
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index dc24dec..daa7941 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -1145,6 +1145,7 @@ endif # CGROUPS
 
 config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
 	bool "Checkpoint/restore support" if EXPERT
+	depends on PROC_CHILDREN
 	default n
 	help
 	  Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
-- 
2.4.1

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