On 14/01/24, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 01:14:47AM -0500, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > > On 14/01/23, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 02:32:33PM -0500, 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 > > > > > > I would have ordered them slightly different, but: > > > > Can you briefly explain how and why so I can understand for next time? > > I originally had the ppid patch first... > > Ah, I would have introduced CONST_CAST() earlier, then used it in the > make pid const and then avoided the conversion patch.
Ah, fair enough. It does serve to show how much ugliness can be avoided though... - 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/
