On Tue, 2014-05-13 at 11:13 -0400, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> On 14/05/13, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> > On 14/05/10, Eric Paris wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2014-05-09 at 20:27 -0400, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> > > > Generate and assign a serial number per namespace instance since boot.
> > > >
> > > > Use a serial number per namespace (unique across one boot of one kernel)
> > > > instead of the inode number (which is claimed to have had the right to
> > > > change
> > > > reserved and is not necessarily unique if there is more than one proc
> > > > fs) to
> > > > uniquely identify it per kernel boot.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <r...@redhat.com>
> > > > ---
> > >
> > > > +/**
> > > > + * ns_serial - compute a serial number for the namespace
> > > > + *
> > > > + * Compute a serial number for the namespace to uniquely identify it in
> > > > + * audit records.
> > > > + */
> > > > +unsigned long long ns_serial(void)
> > > > +{
> > > > + static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(serial_lock);
> > > > + static unsigned long long serial = 4; /* reserved for IPC, UTS,
> > > > user, PID */
> > > > + unsigned long flags;
> > > > +
> > > > + spin_lock_irqsave(&serial_lock, flags);
> > > > + ++serial;
> > > > + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&serial_lock, flags);
> > > > + BUG_ON(!serial);
> > > > +
> > > > + return serial;
> > > > +}
> > > > +
> > > > static inline struct nsproxy *create_nsproxy(void)
> > > > {
> > > > struct nsproxy *nsproxy;
> > >
> > > atomic64_t instead of doing it yourself?
> >
> > I'm willing to switch to atomic64_*. Thanks for pointing out its
> > existence.
>
> Same would then go for using atomic_t in audit_serial().
Yup, moving to an atomic in audit_serial() looks like a good idea to me.
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