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It is useful to be able to utilise the pidfd mechanism to reference the current thread or process (from a userland point of view - thread group leader from the kernel's point of view). Therefore introduce PIDFD_SELF_THREAD to refer to the current thread, and PIDFD_SELF_THREAD_GROUP to refer to the current thread group leader. For convenience and to avoid confusion from userland's perspective we alias these: * PIDFD_SELF is an alias for PIDFD_SELF_THREAD - This is nearly always what the user will want to use, as they would find it surprising if for instance fd's were unshared()'d and they wanted to invoke pidfd_getfd() and that failed. * PIDFD_SELF_PROCESS is an alias for PIDFD_SELF_THREAD_GROUP - Most users have no concept of thread groups or what a thread group leader is, and from userland's perspective and nomenclature this is what userland considers to be a process. We adjust pidfd_get_task() and the pidfd_send_signal() system call with specific handling for this, implementing this functionality for process_madvise(), process_mrelease() (albeit, using it here wouldn't really make sense) and pidfd_send_signal(). Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/24315a16a3d01a548dd45c7515f7d51c767e954e.1738268370.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> |
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