From: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Alexander Mikhalitsyn <alexander@mihalicyn.com>,
"Christian Brauner (Amutable)" <brauner@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 00/10] net: support thread-specific pidfds for send and connect
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:21:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260831-work-unix-passpidfd-v1-0-70cbfda0c7ba@kernel.org> (raw)
SO_PASSPIDFD/SCM_PIDFD and SO_PEERPIDFD allow to retrieve a pidfd for
the thread-group leader. The coredump server using the coredump socket
cannot get a handle on the task that took the signal and is writing the
coredump easily. Workloads interested in per-thread authentification
have similar problems.
Add SO_PASSPIDFD_THREAD and SO_PEERPIDFD_THREAD. We record the sending
and the connecting thread in addition to the thread-group leader.
SO_PASSPIDFD_THREAD functions like SO_PASSPIDFD but instead of an
SCM_PIDFD message for the thread-group leader, SCM_PIDFD sends a pidfd
for the specific thread. SO_PASSPIDFD_THREAD is mutually exclusive with
SO_PASSPIDFD. The last one set takes precedence and disables the other
one. Both SO_PASSCRED and SO_PASSPIDFD receivers see one writer per
process as before.
SO_PEERPIDFD_THREAD allows to retrieve a pidfd for the specific thread
that called connect(), listen(), or socketpair().
pidfs_coredump() now also stamps the dumping thread's struct pid so a
pidfd for that thread reports the coredump like the pidfd of the
thread-group leader does.
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
---
Christian Brauner (10):
pid: add helpers to operate on a struct pid array
af_unix: record the pid of the sending thread
net: add SO_PASSPIDFD_THREAD to get a thread-specific SCM_PIDFD
selftests/net: SO_PASSPIDFD_THREAD
net: turn sk_peer_pid into an array indexed by pid type
af_unix: record the pid of the connecting thread
net: add SO_PEERPIDFD_THREAD to get a thread-specific pidfd
selftests/net: SO_PEERPIDFD_THREAD
pidfs: record the coredump on the dumping thread's pid too
selftests/coredump: check the dumping thread's pidfd
arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/socket.h | 4 +
arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/socket.h | 4 +
arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/socket.h | 4 +
arch/sparc/include/uapi/asm/socket.h | 4 +
fs/coredump.c | 22 +-
fs/pidfs.c | 27 +-
include/linux/coredump.h | 4 +-
include/linux/pid.h | 53 +++
include/linux/pid_types.h | 8 +
include/linux/pidfs.h | 5 +
include/linux/sched/signal.h | 18 +
include/net/scm.h | 7 +-
include/net/sock.h | 14 +-
include/uapi/asm-generic/socket.h | 4 +
net/bluetooth/af_bluetooth.c | 6 +-
net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c | 8 +-
net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c | 2 +-
net/core/scm.c | 36 +-
net/core/sock.c | 120 ++++---
net/unix/af_unix.c | 67 ++--
net/unix/af_unix.h | 3 +-
.../selftests/coredump/coredump_socket_test.c | 175 ++++++++++
tools/testing/selftests/coredump/coredump_test.h | 2 +
.../selftests/coredump/coredump_test_helpers.c | 49 +++
tools/testing/selftests/net/af_unix/Makefile | 2 +
tools/testing/selftests/net/af_unix/scm_pidfd.c | 366 +++++++++++++++++++++
26 files changed, 905 insertions(+), 109 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: cee9395acd8043be0644b25c34bfa86623f2b935
change-id: 20260825-work-unix-passpidfd-086a1ec09e8a
next reply other threads:[~2026-08-31 11:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-31 11:21 Christian Brauner [this message]
2026-08-31 11:21 ` [PATCH 01/10] pid: add helpers to operate on a struct pid array Christian Brauner
2026-08-31 11:21 ` [PATCH 02/10] af_unix: record the pid of the sending thread Christian Brauner
2026-08-31 11:21 ` [PATCH 03/10] net: add SO_PASSPIDFD_THREAD to get a thread-specific SCM_PIDFD Christian Brauner
2026-08-31 11:21 ` [PATCH 04/10] selftests/net: SO_PASSPIDFD_THREAD Christian Brauner
2026-08-31 11:21 ` [PATCH 05/10] net: turn sk_peer_pid into an array indexed by pid type Christian Brauner
2026-09-02 0:20 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-08-31 11:21 ` [PATCH 06/10] af_unix: record the pid of the connecting thread Christian Brauner
2026-08-31 11:21 ` [PATCH 07/10] net: add SO_PEERPIDFD_THREAD to get a thread-specific pidfd Christian Brauner
2026-08-31 11:21 ` [PATCH 08/10] selftests/net: SO_PEERPIDFD_THREAD Christian Brauner
2026-08-31 11:21 ` [PATCH 09/10] pidfs: record the coredump on the dumping thread's pid too Christian Brauner
2026-08-31 11:21 ` [PATCH 10/10] selftests/coredump: check the dumping thread's pidfd Christian Brauner
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