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Date:   Tue, 25 Jan 2022 13:15:45 +0100
From:   Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
To:     Josh Don <joshdon@google.com>
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Subject: Re: [resend RFC 2/3] sched/prctl: add PR_SCHED_CORE_SHARE command
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On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 04:31:05PM -0800, Josh Don wrote:
> Hey Christian,
> 
> This seems like a reasonable extension of the interface to me.
> 
> > @@ -200,6 +212,20 @@ int sched_core_share_pid(unsigned int cmd, pid_t pid, enum pid_type type,
> >                 __sched_core_set(current, cookie);
> >                 goto out;
> >
> > +       case PR_SCHED_CORE_SHARE:
> > +               rcu_read_lock();
> > +               p = task_by_pid(pid_share);
> > +               if (!p)
> > +                       err = -ESRCH;
> > +               else if (!ptrace_may_access(p, PTRACE_MODE_READ_REALCREDS))
> > +                       err = -EPERM;
> > +               if (!err)
> > +                       cookie = sched_core_clone_cookie(p);
> > +               rcu_read_unlock();
> > +               if (err)
> > +                       goto out;
> > +               break;
> > +
> 
> Did you consider folding this into SCHED_CORE_SHARE_TO? SHARE_TO isn't
> using the last arg right now; it could use it as an override for the
> task we copy the cookie from instead of always choosing 'current'.
> Since the code currently rejects any SCHED_CORE prctl calls with a
> non-zero last arg for commands other than SCHED_CORE_GET, this would
> be a safe change for userspace.

Yeah, that sounds good to me too. I can certainly rework the patch to do
that!