core: add support for pidfd_spawn

Added in glibc 2.39, allows cloning into a cgroup and to get
a pid fd back instead of a pid. Removes race conditions for
both changing cgroups and getting a reliable reference for the
child process.

Fixes https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/18843
Replaces https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/16706
This commit is contained in:
Luca Boccassi
2024-02-05 21:52:36 +00:00
parent 9ca13d60db
commit 2e106312e2
4 changed files with 77 additions and 18 deletions
+7 -3
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@@ -364,6 +364,7 @@ int exec_spawn(Unit *unit,
_cleanup_(pidref_done) PidRef pidref = PIDREF_NULL;
_cleanup_fdset_free_ FDSet *fdset = NULL;
_cleanup_fclose_ FILE *f = NULL;
bool move_child = true;
int r;
assert(unit);
@@ -404,8 +405,8 @@ int exec_spawn(Unit *unit,
* child's memory.max, serialize all the state needed to start the unit, and pass it to the
* systemd-executor binary. clone() with CLONE_VM + CLONE_VFORK will pause the parent until the exec
* and ensure all memory is shared. The child immediately execs the new binary so the delay should
* be minimal. Once glibc provides a clone3 wrapper we can switch to that, and clone directly in the
* target cgroup. */
* be minimal. If glibc 2.39 is available pidfd_spawn() is used in order to get a race-free pid fd
* and to clone directly into the target cgroup (if we booted with cgroupv2). */
r = open_serialization_file("sd-executor-state", &f);
if (r < 0)
@@ -451,16 +452,19 @@ int exec_spawn(Unit *unit,
"--log-level", log_level,
"--log-target", log_target_to_string(manager_get_executor_log_target(unit->manager))),
environ,
cg_unified() > 0 ? subcgroup_path : NULL,
&pidref);
if (r < 0)
return log_unit_error_errno(unit, r, "Failed to spawn executor: %m");
if (r > 0)
move_child = false; /* Already in the right cgroup thanks to CLONE_INTO_CGROUP */
log_unit_debug(unit, "Forked %s as "PID_FMT, command->path, pidref.pid);
/* We add the new process to the cgroup both in the child (so that we can be sure that no user code is ever
* executed outside of the cgroup) and in the parent (so that we can be sure that when we kill the cgroup the
* process will be killed too). */
if (subcgroup_path)
if (move_child && subcgroup_path)
(void) cg_attach(SYSTEMD_CGROUP_CONTROLLER, subcgroup_path, pidref.pid);
exec_status_start(&command->exec_status, pidref.pid);