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 -- Richard Guy Briggs <rbri...@redhat.com> Senior Software Engineer, Kernel Security, AMER ENG Base Operating Systems, Red Hat Remote, Ottawa, Canada Voice: +1.647.777.2635, Internal: (81) 32635, Alt: +1.613.693.0684x3545 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
