Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 19 Feb 2014 13:15:01 -0500 | From | Richard Guy Briggs <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/7][RFC] pid: changes to support audit |
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On 14/02/19, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > Richard,
Hi Oleg,
> I am sorry for delay, I'll try to review this series tomorrow. > > But at first glance, can't you send 2/7 first and join 1/7 and 3/7?
Yes, Peter made the same observation. I thought it was more useful to have them seperated out, but I'll join them.
> And since you change is_global_init() perhaps you can also fix it? > It actually needs tgid.
Sure. Can you explain why? We only want init killing off its own threads?
> On 02/19, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > > Andrew, > > > > Are you willing to shepherd this patchset? > > > > On 14/01/23, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > > > These are a number of patches inspired by ebiederman's container work that were > > > included by me 2013-08-20 as the patchset: > > > RFC: steps to make audit pid namespace-safe > > > > > > They have been seperated out for the pid maintainer since there are no direct > > > dependencies from the audit pid namespace patchset with the exception of: > > > pid: get pid_t ppid of task in init_pid_ns > > > > > > Andrew, are you willing to adopt these? > > > > > > In particular, there is discussion around read-only task_struct::pid here: > > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/12/16/552 > > > > > > Richard Guy Briggs (7): > > > pid: change task_struct::pid to read-only > > > compiler: CONST_CAST makes writing const vars easier and obvious > > > pid: use the CONST_CAST macro instead to write to const > > > task_struct::pid > > > pid: modify task_tgid_nr to work without task->tgid. > > > pid: rewrite task helper function is_global_init() avoiding task->pid > > > pid: mark struct task const in helper functions > > > pid: get pid_t ppid of task in init_pid_ns > > > > > > arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 2 +- > > > fs/exec.c | 2 +- > > > include/linux/compiler.h | 8 ++++++ > > > include/linux/sched.h | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------- > > > kernel/fork.c | 5 ++- > > > kernel/pid.c | 4 +- > > > 6 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-) > > > > - RGB
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