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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2026-04-13 13:27:11 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2026-04-13 13:27:11 -0700 |
| commit | 07c3ef58223e2c75ea209d8c416b976ec30d9413 (patch) | |
| tree | 3838ec64af74ba2d876bef4f7c3c3b2709bdec95 /kernel | |
| parent | dc0dfa73381bc8b2ebd298face5dbe7e240cd80c (diff) | |
| parent | d29eb5f0ce674cfe71b93f8ff67dc0f66e6a9371 (diff) | |
Merge tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.pidfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull clone and pidfs updates from Christian Brauner:
"Add three new clone3() flags for pidfd-based process lifecycle
management.
CLONE_AUTOREAP:
CLONE_AUTOREAP makes a child process auto-reap on exit without ever
becoming a zombie. This is a per-process property in contrast to
the existing auto-reap mechanism via SA_NOCLDWAIT or SIG_IGN for
SIGCHLD which applies to all children of a given parent.
Currently the only way to automatically reap children is to set
SA_NOCLDWAIT or SIG_IGN on SIGCHLD. This is a parent-scoped
property affecting all children which makes it unsuitable for
libraries or applications that need selective auto-reaping of
specific children while still being able to wait() on others.
CLONE_AUTOREAP stores an autoreap flag in the child's
signal_struct. When the child exits do_notify_parent() checks this
flag and causes exit_notify() to transition the task directly to
EXIT_DEAD. Since the flag lives on the child it survives
reparenting: if the original parent exits and the child is
reparented to a subreaper or init the child still auto-reaps when
it eventually exits. This is cleaner than forcing the subreaper to
get SIGCHLD and then reaping it. If the parent doesn't care the
subreaper won't care. If there's a subreaper that would care it
would be easy enough to add a prctl() that either just turns back
on SIGCHLD and turns off auto-reaping or a prctl() that just
notifies the subreaper whenever a child is reparented to it.
CLONE_AUTOREAP can be combined with CLONE_PIDFD to allow the parent
to monitor the child's exit via poll() and retrieve exit status via
PIDFD_GET_INFO. Without CLONE_PIDFD it provides a fire-and-forget
pattern. No exit signal is delivered so exit_signal must be zero.
CLONE_THREAD and CLONE_PARENT are rejected: CLONE_THREAD because
autoreap is a process-level property, and CLONE_PARENT because an
autoreap child reparented via CLONE_PARENT could become an
invisible zombie under a parent that never calls wait().
The flag is not inherited by the autoreap process's own children.
Each child that should be autoreaped must be explicitly created
with CLONE_AUTOREAP.
CLONE_NNP:
CLONE_NNP sets no_new_privs on the child at clone time. Unlike
prctl(PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS) which a process sets on itself,
CLONE_NNP allows the parent to impose no_new_privs on the child at
creation without affecting the parent's own privileges.
CLONE_THREAD is rejected because threads share credentials.
CLONE_NNP is useful on its own for any spawn-and-sandbox pattern
but was specifically introduced to enable unprivileged usage of
CLONE_PIDFD_AUTOKILL.
CLONE_PIDFD_AUTOKILL:
This flag ties a child's lifetime to the pidfd returned from
clone3(). When the last reference to the struct file created by
clone3() is closed the kernel sends SIGKILL to the child. A pidfd
obtained via pidfd_open() for the same process does not keep the
child alive and does not trigger autokill - only the specific
struct file from clone3() has this property. This is useful for
container runtimes, service managers, and sandboxed subprocess
execution - any scenario where the child must die if the parent
crashes or abandons the pidfd or just wants a throwaway helper
process.
CLONE_PIDFD_AUTOKILL requires both CLONE_PIDFD and CLONE_AUTOREAP.
It requires CLONE_PIDFD because the whole point is tying the
child's lifetime to the pidfd. It requires CLONE_AUTOREAP because a
killed child with no one to reap it would become a zombie - the
primary use case is the parent crashing or abandoning the pidfd so
no one is around to call waitpid(). CLONE_THREAD is rejected
because autokill targets a process not a thread.
If CLONE_NNP is specified together with CLONE_PIDFD_AUTOKILL an
unprivileged user may spawn a process that is autokilled. The child
cannot escalate privileges via setuid/setgid exec after being
spawned. If CLONE_PIDFD_AUTOKILL is specified without CLONE_NNP the
caller must have have CAP_SYS_ADMIN in its user namespace"
* tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.pidfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
selftests: check pidfd_info->coredump_code correctness
pidfds: add coredump_code field to pidfd_info
kselftest/coredump: reintroduce null pointer dereference
selftests/pidfd: add CLONE_PIDFD_AUTOKILL tests
selftests/pidfd: add CLONE_NNP tests
selftests/pidfd: add CLONE_AUTOREAP tests
pidfd: add CLONE_PIDFD_AUTOKILL
clone: add CLONE_NNP
clone: add CLONE_AUTOREAP
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/fork.c | 52 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/ptrace.c | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/signal.c | 4 |
3 files changed, 55 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index a4ec2d1e25ee..55a6906d3014 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -2029,6 +2029,41 @@ __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process( return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); } + if (clone_flags & CLONE_AUTOREAP) { + if (clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD) + return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); + if (clone_flags & CLONE_PARENT) + return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); + if (args->exit_signal) + return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); + } + + if ((clone_flags & CLONE_PARENT) && current->signal->autoreap) + return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); + + if (clone_flags & CLONE_NNP) { + if (clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD) + return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); + } + + if (clone_flags & CLONE_PIDFD_AUTOKILL) { + if (!(clone_flags & CLONE_PIDFD)) + return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); + if (!(clone_flags & CLONE_AUTOREAP)) + return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); + if (clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD) + return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); + /* + * Without CLONE_NNP the child could escalate privileges + * after being spawned, so require CAP_SYS_ADMIN. + * With CLONE_NNP the child can't gain new privileges, + * so allow unprivileged usage. + */ + if (!(clone_flags & CLONE_NNP) && + !ns_capable(current_user_ns(), CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + return ERR_PTR(-EPERM); + } + /* * Force any signals received before this point to be delivered * before the fork happens. Collect up signals sent to multiple @@ -2251,13 +2286,18 @@ __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process( * if the fd table isn't shared). */ if (clone_flags & CLONE_PIDFD) { - int flags = (clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD) ? PIDFD_THREAD : 0; + unsigned flags = PIDFD_STALE; + + if (clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD) + flags |= PIDFD_THREAD; + if (clone_flags & CLONE_PIDFD_AUTOKILL) + flags |= PIDFD_AUTOKILL; /* * Note that no task has been attached to @pid yet indicate * that via CLONE_PIDFD. */ - retval = pidfd_prepare(pid, flags | PIDFD_STALE, &pidfile); + retval = pidfd_prepare(pid, flags, &pidfile); if (retval < 0) goto bad_fork_free_pid; pidfd = retval; @@ -2413,6 +2453,9 @@ __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process( */ copy_seccomp(p); + if (clone_flags & CLONE_NNP) + task_set_no_new_privs(p); + init_task_pid_links(p); if (likely(p->pid)) { ptrace_init_task(p, (clone_flags & CLONE_PTRACE) || trace); @@ -2436,6 +2479,8 @@ __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process( */ p->signal->has_child_subreaper = p->real_parent->signal->has_child_subreaper || p->real_parent->signal->is_child_subreaper; + if (clone_flags & CLONE_AUTOREAP) + p->signal->autoreap = 1; list_add_tail(&p->sibling, &p->real_parent->children); list_add_tail_rcu(&p->tasks, &init_task.tasks); attach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_TGID); @@ -2897,7 +2942,8 @@ static bool clone3_args_valid(struct kernel_clone_args *kargs) { /* Verify that no unknown flags are passed along. */ if (kargs->flags & - ~(CLONE_LEGACY_FLAGS | CLONE_CLEAR_SIGHAND | CLONE_INTO_CGROUP)) + ~(CLONE_LEGACY_FLAGS | CLONE_CLEAR_SIGHAND | CLONE_INTO_CGROUP | + CLONE_AUTOREAP | CLONE_NNP | CLONE_PIDFD_AUTOKILL)) return false; /* diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c index 392ec2f75f01..68c17daef8d4 100644 --- a/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -549,7 +549,8 @@ static bool __ptrace_detach(struct task_struct *tracer, struct task_struct *p) if (!dead && thread_group_empty(p)) { if (!same_thread_group(p->real_parent, tracer)) dead = do_notify_parent(p, p->exit_signal); - else if (ignoring_children(tracer->sighand)) { + else if (ignoring_children(tracer->sighand) || + p->signal->autoreap) { __wake_up_parent(p, tracer); dead = true; } diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c index d65d0fe24bfb..e61f39fa8c8a 100644 --- a/kernel/signal.c +++ b/kernel/signal.c @@ -2251,6 +2251,10 @@ bool do_notify_parent(struct task_struct *tsk, int sig) if (psig->action[SIGCHLD-1].sa.sa_handler == SIG_IGN) sig = 0; } + if (!tsk->ptrace && tsk->signal->autoreap) { + autoreap = true; + sig = 0; + } /* * Send with __send_signal as si_pid and si_uid are in the * parent's namespaces. |
