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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c index b31e1465868a..77702e089d6a 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c @@ -6161,6 +6161,20 @@ static int cgroup_css_set_fork(struct kernel_clone_args *kargs) if (ret) goto err; + /* + * Spawning a task directly into a cgroup works by passing a file + * descriptor to the target cgroup directory. This can even be an O_PATH + * file descriptor. But it can never be a cgroup.procs file descriptor. + * This was done on purpose so spawning into a cgroup could be + * conceptualized as an atomic + * + * fd = openat(dfd_cgroup, "cgroup.procs", ...); + * write(fd, <child-pid>, ...); + * + * sequence, i.e. it's a shorthand for the caller opening and writing + * cgroup.procs of the cgroup indicated by @dfd_cgroup. This allows us + * to always use the caller's credentials. + */ ret = cgroup_attach_permissions(cset->dfl_cgrp, dst_cgrp, sb, !(kargs->flags & CLONE_THREAD), current->nsproxy->cgroup_ns); |