tree dacc56670ce9a76cb7252e69dd88fcdeb7d72f2f
parent 21e25205d7f9b6d7d3807546dd12ea93844b7c8e
author Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> 1706707562 +0100
committer Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> 1706875948 +0100

pidfd: implement PIDFD_THREAD flag for pidfd_open()

With this flag:

	- pidfd_open() doesn't require that the target task must be
	  a thread-group leader

	- pidfd_poll() succeeds when the task exits and becomes a
	  zombie (iow, passes exit_notify()), even if it is a leader
	  and thread-group is not empty.

	  This means that the behaviour of pidfd_poll(PIDFD_THREAD,
	  pid-of-group-leader) is not well defined if it races with
	  exec() from its sub-thread; pidfd_poll() can succeed or not
	  depending on whether pidfd_task_exited() is called before
	  or after exchange_tids().

	  Perhaps we can improve this behaviour later, pidfd_poll()
	  can probably take sig->group_exec_task into account. But
	  this doesn't really differ from the case when the leader
	  exits before other threads (so pidfd_poll() succeeds) and
	  then another thread execs and pidfd_poll() will block again.

thread_group_exited() is no longer used, perhaps it can die.

Co-developed-by: Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.pizza>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240131132602.GA23641@redhat.com
Tested-by: Tycho Andersen <tandersen@netflix.com>
Reviewed-by: Tycho Andersen <tandersen@netflix.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>