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Commit b1efc196 authored by Pavel Tikhomirov's avatar Pavel Tikhomirov Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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fcntl: make F_GETOWN(EX) return 0 on dead owner task



[ Upstream commit cc4a3f88 ]

Currently there is no way to differentiate the file with alive owner
from the file with dead owner but pid of the owner reused. That's why
CRIU can't actually know if it needs to restore file owner or not,
because if it restores owner but actual owner was dead, this can
introduce unexpected signals to the "false"-owner (which reused the
pid).

Let's change the api, so that F_GETOWN(EX) returns 0 in case actual
owner is dead already. This comports with the POSIX spec, which
states that a PID of 0 indicates that no signal will be sent.

Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Stable-dep-of: f671a691 ("fcntl: fix potential deadlocks for &fown_struct.lock")
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
parent ca4c4983
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