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SubjectRe: [PATCH 7/7] pid: get pid_t ppid of task in init_pid_ns
On 02/21, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
>
> On 14/02/20, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> > imho it would be better to send this patch along with sys_getppid()
> > conversions, but I won't argue.
>
> I don't think sys_getppid() should be changed since it is a syscall
> whose userspace user would assume the working namespace.

Sorry for confusion, I didn't mean we need to change sys_getppid(),

> Many of the
> kernel internal uses of it are likely wrong though, so fixing that
> should probably fall under another patch. I fixed audit in another
> patch.

Yes, this is what I meant. And this patch should probably go into
that series which fixes the in-kernel users of sys_getppid().

And in fact you already did this? I see another series which resends
this patch as 1/5.

Oleg.



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