From: luca.boccassi@gmail.com
To: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, graf@amazon.com, rppt@kernel.org,
pasha.tatashin@soleen.com, pratyush@kernel.org,
Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] liveupdate: add LIVEUPDATE_SESSION_GET_NAME ioctl
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:55:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260331175639.4066033-1-luca.boccassi@gmail.com> (raw)
From: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
Userspace when requesting a session specifies a name and gets a FD,
but then there is no way to go back the other way and get the name
given a LUO session FD. This is problematic especially when there
is a userspace orchestrator that wants to check what FDs it is
handling for clients.
Resolving the /proc/self/fd/X is lossy as that has a hard limit
of characters, so names might be truncated. Also requiring going
through procfs and doing manual string mangling is not a nice
pattern.
Add a ioctl to simply get the name from an FD.
Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
---
Need this for integration in systemd, so that I can check what
FDs I get from clients and what they are, and so that I can know
where to hand it back to
include/uapi/linux/liveupdate.h | 19 +++++
kernel/liveupdate/luo_session.c | 13 ++++
.../testing/selftests/liveupdate/liveupdate.c | 72 +++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 104 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/liveupdate.h b/include/uapi/linux/liveupdate.h
index 30bc66ee9436a..41dc44d239dde 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/liveupdate.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/liveupdate.h
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ enum {
LIVEUPDATE_CMD_SESSION_PRESERVE_FD = LIVEUPDATE_CMD_SESSION_BASE,
LIVEUPDATE_CMD_SESSION_RETRIEVE_FD = 0x41,
LIVEUPDATE_CMD_SESSION_FINISH = 0x42,
+ LIVEUPDATE_CMD_SESSION_GET_NAME = 0x43,
};
/**
@@ -213,4 +214,22 @@ struct liveupdate_session_finish {
#define LIVEUPDATE_SESSION_FINISH \
_IO(LIVEUPDATE_IOCTL_TYPE, LIVEUPDATE_CMD_SESSION_FINISH)
+/**
+ * struct liveupdate_session_get_name - ioctl(LIVEUPDATE_SESSION_GET_NAME)
+ * @size: Input; sizeof(struct liveupdate_session_get_name)
+ * @name: Output; A null-terminated string with the full session name.
+ *
+ * Retrieves the full name of the session associated with this file descriptor.
+ * This is useful because the kernel may truncate the name shown in /proc.
+ *
+ * Return: 0 on success, negative error code on failure.
+ */
+struct liveupdate_session_get_name {
+ __u32 size;
+ __u8 name[LIVEUPDATE_SESSION_NAME_LENGTH];
+};
+
+#define LIVEUPDATE_SESSION_GET_NAME \
+ _IO(LIVEUPDATE_IOCTL_TYPE, LIVEUPDATE_CMD_SESSION_GET_NAME)
+
#endif /* _UAPI_LIVEUPDATE_H */
diff --git a/kernel/liveupdate/luo_session.c b/kernel/liveupdate/luo_session.c
index 4a40c7fdfb44f..819e8864869fd 100644
--- a/kernel/liveupdate/luo_session.c
+++ b/kernel/liveupdate/luo_session.c
@@ -289,10 +289,21 @@ static int luo_session_finish(struct luo_session *session,
return luo_ucmd_respond(ucmd, sizeof(*argp));
}
+static int luo_session_get_name(struct luo_session *session,
+ struct luo_ucmd *ucmd)
+{
+ struct liveupdate_session_get_name *argp = ucmd->cmd;
+
+ strscpy((char *)argp->name, session->name, sizeof(argp->name));
+
+ return luo_ucmd_respond(ucmd, sizeof(*argp));
+}
+
union ucmd_buffer {
struct liveupdate_session_finish finish;
struct liveupdate_session_preserve_fd preserve;
struct liveupdate_session_retrieve_fd retrieve;
+ struct liveupdate_session_get_name get_name;
};
struct luo_ioctl_op {
@@ -319,6 +330,8 @@ static const struct luo_ioctl_op luo_session_ioctl_ops[] = {
struct liveupdate_session_preserve_fd, token),
IOCTL_OP(LIVEUPDATE_SESSION_RETRIEVE_FD, luo_session_retrieve_fd,
struct liveupdate_session_retrieve_fd, token),
+ IOCTL_OP(LIVEUPDATE_SESSION_GET_NAME, luo_session_get_name,
+ struct liveupdate_session_get_name, name),
};
static long luo_session_ioctl(struct file *filep, unsigned int cmd,
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/liveupdate/liveupdate.c b/tools/testing/selftests/liveupdate/liveupdate.c
index c2878e3d5ef90..510a583371fac 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/liveupdate/liveupdate.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/liveupdate/liveupdate.c
@@ -102,6 +102,22 @@ static int create_session(int lu_fd, const char *name)
return args.fd;
}
+/* Helper function to get a session name via ioctl. */
+static int get_session_name(int session_fd, char *name, size_t name_len)
+{
+ struct liveupdate_session_get_name args = {};
+
+ args.size = sizeof(args);
+
+ if (ioctl(session_fd, LIVEUPDATE_SESSION_GET_NAME, &args))
+ return -errno;
+
+ strncpy(name, (char *)args.name, name_len - 1);
+ name[name_len - 1] = '\0';
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
/*
* Test Case: Create Duplicate Session
*
@@ -345,4 +361,60 @@ TEST_F(liveupdate_device, preserve_unsupported_fd)
ASSERT_EQ(close(session_fd), 0);
}
+/*
+ * Test Case: Get Session Name
+ *
+ * Verifies that the full session name can be retrieved from a session file
+ * descriptor via ioctl. This is important because /proc may truncate the
+ * anon_inode name.
+ */
+TEST_F(liveupdate_device, get_session_name)
+{
+ char name_buf[LIVEUPDATE_SESSION_NAME_LENGTH] = {};
+ const char *session_name = "get-name-test-session";
+ int session_fd;
+
+ self->fd1 = open(LIVEUPDATE_DEV, O_RDWR);
+ if (self->fd1 < 0 && errno == ENOENT)
+ SKIP(return, "%s does not exist", LIVEUPDATE_DEV);
+ ASSERT_GE(self->fd1, 0);
+
+ session_fd = create_session(self->fd1, session_name);
+ ASSERT_GE(session_fd, 0);
+
+ ASSERT_EQ(get_session_name(session_fd, name_buf, sizeof(name_buf)), 0);
+ ASSERT_STREQ(name_buf, session_name);
+
+ ASSERT_EQ(close(session_fd), 0);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Test Case: Get Session Name at Maximum Length
+ *
+ * Verifies that a session name using the full LIVEUPDATE_SESSION_NAME_LENGTH
+ * (minus the null terminator) can be correctly retrieved.
+ */
+TEST_F(liveupdate_device, get_session_name_max_length)
+{
+ char name_buf[LIVEUPDATE_SESSION_NAME_LENGTH] = {};
+ char long_name[LIVEUPDATE_SESSION_NAME_LENGTH];
+ int session_fd;
+
+ memset(long_name, 'A', sizeof(long_name) - 1);
+ long_name[sizeof(long_name) - 1] = '\0';
+
+ self->fd1 = open(LIVEUPDATE_DEV, O_RDWR);
+ if (self->fd1 < 0 && errno == ENOENT)
+ SKIP(return, "%s does not exist", LIVEUPDATE_DEV);
+ ASSERT_GE(self->fd1, 0);
+
+ session_fd = create_session(self->fd1, long_name);
+ ASSERT_GE(session_fd, 0);
+
+ ASSERT_EQ(get_session_name(session_fd, name_buf, sizeof(name_buf)), 0);
+ ASSERT_STREQ(name_buf, long_name);
+
+ ASSERT_EQ(close(session_fd), 0);
+}
+
TEST_HARNESS_MAIN
--
2.47.3
next reply other threads:[~2026-03-31 17:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-31 17:55 luca.boccassi [this message]
2026-03-31 18:33 ` Pasha Tatashin
2026-03-31 19:07 ` Luca Boccassi
2026-03-31 19:27 ` Pasha Tatashin
2026-03-31 19:46 ` Luca Boccassi
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