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From: "Jürg Billeter" <j@bitron.ch>
To: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>,
	jannh@google.com, luto@kernel.org, dhowells@redhat.com,
	serge@hallyn.com, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: arnd@arndb.de, ebiederm@xmission.com, khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru,
	keescook@chromium.org, adobriyan@gmail.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
	mtk.manpages@gmail.com, bl0pbl33p@gmail.com, ldv@altlinux.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, oleg@redhat.com,
	nagarathnam.muthusamy@oracle.com, cyphar@cyphar.com,
	viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, joel@joelfernandes.org,
	dancol@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] pid: add pidfd_open()
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2019 12:53:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f0d590b96b7d11ae21a9a06040b8ffa85fa74e2a.camel@bitron.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190329155425.26059-3-christian@brauner.io>

On Fri, 2019-03-29 at 16:54 +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/wait.h b/include/uapi/linux/wait.h
> index ac49a220cf2a..d6c7c0701997 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/wait.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/wait.h
> @@ -18,5 +18,7 @@
>  #define P_PID		1
>  #define P_PGID		2
>  
> +/* Get a file descriptor for /proc/<pid> of the corresponding pidfd
> */
> +#define PIDFD_GET_PROCFD _IOR('p', 1, int)
>  
>  #endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_WAIT_H */

This is missing an entry in Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt and is
actually conflicting with existing entries.

However, I'd actually prefer a syscall to allow strict whitelisting via
seccomp and avoid the other ioctl disadvantages that Daniel has already
mentioned.

Cheers,
Jürg

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-03-30 11:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-29 15:54 [PATCH v2 0/5] pid: add pidfd_open() Christian Brauner
2019-03-29 15:54 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] Make anon_inodes unconditional Christian Brauner
2019-03-29 15:54 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] pid: add pidfd_open() Christian Brauner
2019-03-29 23:45   ` Jann Horn
2019-03-29 23:55     ` Christian Brauner
2019-03-30 11:53   ` Jürg Billeter [this message]
2019-03-30 14:37     ` Christian Brauner
2019-03-30 14:51       ` Jonathan Kowalski
2019-03-29 15:54 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] signal: support pidfd_open() with pidfd_send_signal() Christian Brauner
2019-03-29 15:54 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] signal: PIDFD_SIGNAL_TID threads via pidfds Christian Brauner
2019-03-30  1:06   ` Jann Horn
2019-03-30  1:22     ` Christian Brauner
2019-03-30  1:34       ` Christian Brauner
2019-03-30  1:42         ` Christian Brauner
2019-03-29 15:54 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] tests: add pidfd_open() tests Christian Brauner
2019-03-30 16:09 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] pid: add pidfd_open() Linus Torvalds
2019-03-30 16:11   ` Daniel Colascione
2019-03-30 16:16     ` Linus Torvalds
2019-03-30 16:18       ` Linus Torvalds
2019-03-31  1:07         ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-31  2:34           ` Jann Horn
2019-03-31  4:08             ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-31  4:46               ` Jann Horn
2019-03-31 14:52                 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-03-31 15:05                   ` Christian Brauner
2019-03-31 15:21                     ` Daniel Colascione
2019-03-31 15:33                   ` Jonathan Kowalski
2019-03-30 16:19   ` Christian Brauner
2019-03-30 16:24     ` Linus Torvalds
2019-03-30 16:34       ` Daniel Colascione
2019-03-30 16:38         ` Christian Brauner
2019-03-30 17:04         ` Linus Torvalds
2019-03-30 17:12           ` Christian Brauner
2019-03-30 17:24             ` Linus Torvalds
2019-03-30 17:37               ` Christian Brauner
2019-03-30 17:50               ` Jonathan Kowalski
2019-03-30 17:52                 ` Christian Brauner
2019-03-30 17:59                   ` Jonathan Kowalski
2019-03-30 18:02                     ` Christian Brauner
2019-03-30 18:00               ` Jann Horn
2019-03-31 20:09               ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-03-31 21:03                 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-03-31 21:10                   ` Christian Brauner
2019-03-31 21:17                     ` Linus Torvalds
2019-03-31 22:03                       ` Christian Brauner
2019-03-31 22:16                         ` Linus Torvalds
2019-03-31 22:33                           ` Christian Brauner
2019-04-01  0:52                             ` Jann Horn
2019-04-01  8:47                               ` Yann Droneaud
2019-04-01 10:03                               ` Jonathan Kowalski
2019-03-31 23:40                           ` Linus Torvalds
2019-04-01  0:09                             ` Al Viro
2019-04-01  0:18                               ` Linus Torvalds
2019-04-01  0:21                                 ` Christian Brauner
2019-04-01  6:37                                 ` Al Viro
2019-04-01  6:41                                   ` Al Viro
2019-03-31 22:03                       ` Jonathan Kowalski
2019-04-01  2:13                       ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-04-01 11:40                         ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-04-01 15:36                           ` Linus Torvalds
2019-04-01 15:47                             ` Christian Brauner
2019-04-01 15:55                             ` Daniel Colascione
2019-04-01 16:01                               ` Linus Torvalds
2019-04-01 16:13                                 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-04-01 19:42                                 ` Christian Brauner
2019-04-01 21:30                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2019-04-01 21:58                                     ` Jonathan Kowalski
2019-04-01 22:13                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2019-04-01 22:34                                         ` Daniel Colascione
2019-04-01 16:07                               ` Jonathan Kowalski
2019-04-01 16:15                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-04-01 16:27                                   ` Jonathan Kowalski
2019-04-01 16:21                                 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-04-01 16:29                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2019-04-01 16:45                                     ` Daniel Colascione
2019-04-01 17:00                                       ` David Laight
2019-04-01 17:32                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2019-04-02 11:03                                       ` Florian Weimer
2019-04-01 16:10                             ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-04-01 12:04                         ` Christian Brauner
2019-04-01 13:43                           ` Jann Horn
2019-03-31 21:19                 ` Christian Brauner
2019-03-30 16:37       ` Christian Brauner

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