Re: [PATCH 0/7][RFC] pid: changes to support audit

From: Richard Guy Briggs
Date: Wed Feb 19 2014 - 11:19:38 EST


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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