/* Check if kernel supports PID file descriptors. Copyright (C) 2023-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of the GNU C Library. The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see . */ #include #include #include /* The PID file descriptors was added during multiple releases: - Linux 5.2 added CLONE_PIDFD support for clone and __clone_pidfd_supported syscall. - Linux 5.3 added support for poll and CLONE_PIDFD for clone3. - Linux 5.4 added P_PIDFD support on waitid. For internal usage on spawn and fork, it only make sense to return a file descriptor if caller can actually waitid on it. */ static int __waitid_pidfd_supported = 0; bool __clone_pidfd_supported (void) { int state = atomic_load_relaxed (&__waitid_pidfd_supported); if (state == 0) { /* Linux define the maximum allocated file descriptor value as 0x7fffffc0 (from fs/file.c): #define __const_min(x, y) ((x) < (y) ? (x) : (y)) unsigned int sysctl_nr_open_max = __const_min(INT_MAX, ~(size_t)0/sizeof(void *)) & -BITS_PER_LONG; So we can detect whether kernel supports all pidfd interfaces by using a valid but never allocated file descriptor: if is not supported waitid will return EINVAL, otherwise EBADF. Also the waitid is a cancellation entrypoint, so issue the syscall directly. */ int r = INTERNAL_SYSCALL_CALL (waitid, P_PIDFD, INT_MAX, NULL, WEXITED | WNOHANG); state = r == -EBADF ? 1 : -1; atomic_store_relaxed (&__waitid_pidfd_supported, state); } return state > 0; }