Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Dec 2013 09:47:58 -0500 | From | Richard Guy Briggs <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 03/12] pid: get ppid pid_t of task in init_pid_ns safely |
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On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 02:31:59PM -0400, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 01:37:09PM -0700, John Johansen wrote: > > On 08/30/2013 12:56 PM, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 07:21:55PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > >> On 08/20, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > > > Most of the instances are current, but the one called from apparmour is > > > stored. I've just learned that this is bad and someone else just chimed > > > in that they have a patch to remove it... > > > > the apparmor case isn't actually stored long term. The stored task will be > > a parameter that was passed into an lsm hook and the buffer that it is > > stored in dies before the hook is done. Its temporarily stored in the > > struct so that it can be passed into the lsm_audit fn, and printed into an > > allocated audit buffer. The text version in the audit buffer is what will > > exist beyond the hook. > > > > There are three patches, I'll reply them below once I have finished rebasing > > them to apply to the current tree instead of my dev tree. > > John, thanks for this context and fix. That helps simplify things.
John, What's the status of this set of 3 patches? I don't see them upstream.
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