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From: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
To: luca.boccassi@gmail.com
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, graf@amazon.com,
	 rppt@kernel.org, pasha.tatashin@soleen.com, pratyush@kernel.org,
	 brauner@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/4] liveupdate: add LIVEUPDATE_SESSION_GET_NAME ioctl
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2026 04:09:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ntukp7nk6emz3twpcxn6abdwzbd2fxn5c2udb5scrmnjyvsvua@7272xkwt55qh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260417220831.1934945-3-luca.boccassi@gmail.com>

On 04-17 23:05, luca.boccassi@gmail.com wrote:
> From: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
> 
> Userspace when requesting a session via the ioctl specifies a name and
> gets a FD, but then there is no ioctl 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 without having to do manual string scraping of
> procfs, or without procfs at all.
> 
> Add a ioctl to simply get the name from an FD.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
> ---
> v5: merge with LUO_SESSION_MAGIC series as they both change the same
>     unit test file, to avoid merge conflicts
>     add '__u32 reserved' to the UAPI struct
> 
>  include/uapi/linux/liveupdate.h | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  kernel/liveupdate/luo_session.c | 13 +++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 33 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/liveupdate.h b/include/uapi/linux/liveupdate.h
> index 30bc66ee9436a..079ee6afb15a7 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 +214,23 @@ 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)

The kernel=doc comment needs to be updated to avoid errors. Add 
something like this:

 * @reserved: Input; Must be zero. Reserved for future use.

> + * @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;
> +	__u32		reserved;
> +	__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 5e315cc0dfd52..f30151c37bd43 100644
> --- a/kernel/liveupdate/luo_session.c
> +++ b/kernel/liveupdate/luo_session.c
> @@ -291,10 +291,21 @@ 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 {
> @@ -321,6 +332,8 @@ 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,
> -- 
> 2.47.3
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2026-04-18  4:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-17 22:05 [PATCH v5 1/4] liveupdate: add LUO_SESSION_MAGIC magic inode type luca.boccassi
2026-04-17 22:05 ` [PATCH v5 2/4] selftests/liveupdate: add test case for LUO_SESSION_MAGIC luca.boccassi
2026-04-17 22:05 ` [PATCH v5 3/4] liveupdate: add LIVEUPDATE_SESSION_GET_NAME ioctl luca.boccassi
2026-04-18  4:09   ` Pasha Tatashin [this message]
2026-04-17 22:05 ` [PATCH v5 4/4] selftests/liveupdate: add test cases for LIVEUPDATE_SESSION_GET_NAME luca.boccassi
2026-04-18  4:17   ` Pasha Tatashin

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