[PATCH v7 3/4] liveupdate: add LIVEUPDATE_SESSION_GET_NAME ioctl

luca.boccassi at gmail.com luca.boccassi at gmail.com
Sat Apr 18 07:09:39 PDT 2026


From: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi at 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 at 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
v6: fix docstring

 include/uapi/linux/liveupdate.h | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 kernel/liveupdate/luo_session.c | 13 +++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 34 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/liveupdate.h b/include/uapi/linux/liveupdate.h
index 30bc66ee9436..3a9ff53b02e0 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 +214,24 @@ 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)
+ * @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 1d35379e4e52..9b434470982c 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




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