This adds two flags to process_vm_readv/writev:

- PROCESS_VM_PIDFD: refer to the remote process via PID file descriptor
  instead of PID.
- PROCESS_VM_NOWAIT: do not block on IO if the memory access causes a
  page fault.

v2: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/
v1: 
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/
Sashiko review of v2: 
https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/[email protected]

Changes since v2:
- Fix ERR_PTR handling for pidfd_get_task(): use IS_ERR()/PTR_ERR()
  for the pidfd path, matching process_madvise() (Usama Arif, Sashiko)
- Add selftest for invalid pidfd (David Hildenbrand)
- Add selftest for invalid pid
- Remove hardcoded __NR_pidfd_open fallback, use <sys/syscall.h> (Sashiko)
- SKIP pidfd tests on kernels without pidfd_open (ENOSYS) (Sashiko)
- SKIP userfaultfd tests when unprivileged userfaultfd is disabled (EPERM) 
(Sashiko)
- Fault in test_data before NOWAIT tests to ensure page is resident (Sashiko)
- Add ksft_process_vm_readv.sh wrapper and run_vmtests.sh entry
  so the test runs in CI
- Rebase onto v7.1-rc1

Not addressed:
- uffd handler timeout causing test hang: kselftest_harness forks each
  test with a 30-second timeout, so an infinite hang cannot occur (Sashiko)
- 64-bit process reading 32-bit process high addresses: pre-existing
  concern in the existing process_vm_readv code, not introduced by this
  patch (David Laight)

Alban Crequy (2):
  mm/process_vm_access: pidfd and nowait support for
    process_vm_readv/writev
  selftests/mm: add tests for process_vm_readv flags

 MAINTAINERS                                   |   1 +
 include/uapi/linux/process_vm.h               |   9 +
 mm/process_vm_access.c                        |  34 +-
 tools/testing/selftests/mm/Makefile           |   2 +
 .../selftests/mm/ksft_process_vm_readv.sh     |   4 +
 tools/testing/selftests/mm/process_vm_readv.c | 421 ++++++++++++++++++
 tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh     |   4 +
 7 files changed, 466 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/process_vm.h
 create mode 100755 tools/testing/selftests/mm/ksft_process_vm_readv.sh
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/mm/process_vm_readv.c

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2.45.0


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