fcntl: make F_GETOWN(EX) return 0 on dead owner task
authorPavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>
Wed, 3 Feb 2021 12:41:56 +0000 (15:41 +0300)
committerJeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Mon, 8 Feb 2021 12:36:13 +0000 (07:36 -0500)
commitcc4a3f885e8f2bc3c86a265972e94fef32d68f67
treecb08cd7f4c9304655bf1385dd150c6a45f9e1384
parent92bf22614b21a2706f4993b278017e437f7785b3
fcntl: make F_GETOWN(EX) return 0 on dead owner task

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: Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
fs/fcntl.c