Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 19 Dec 2013 23:48:26 -0500 | From | Richard Guy Briggs <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] pid: change task_struct::pid to read-only |
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On 13/12/17, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 04:03:38PM -0500, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > > task->pid is only ever assigned once (well ok, twice). For system health and > > secure logging confidence, make it const to make it much more intentional when > > it is being changed. > > --- > > > > Peter, as you had suggested, does this approach work for you in terms of making > > task_struct::pid a lot more difficult to accidentally change to try to preserve > > its integrity? > > Yeah, looks good to me.
Ok, who would carry this patch? You? AKPM? Me?
Any opinions about Oleg's macro idea?
- RGB
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