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Commit 5e2ff670 authored by Alexander Mikhalitsyn's avatar Alexander Mikhalitsyn Committed by David S. Miller
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scm: add SO_PASSPIDFD and SCM_PIDFD

Implement SCM_PIDFD, a new type of CMSG type analogical to SCM_CREDENTIALS,
but it contains pidfd instead of plain pid, which allows programmers not
to care about PID reuse problem.

We mask SO_PASSPIDFD feature if CONFIG_UNIX is not builtin because
it depends on a pidfd_prepare() API which is not exported to the kernel
modules.

Idea comes from UAPI kernel group:
https://uapi-group.org/kernel-features/



Big thanks to Christian Brauner and Lennart Poettering for productive
discussions about this.

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Cc: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de>
Cc: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: default avatarLuca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarKuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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