Re: [patch -mm 1/5] mqueue namespace : add struct mq_namespace

[Cedric Le Goater <clg-NmTC/0ZBporQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

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> The really challenging case to handle here  is what happens if we are
> signaling to someone in a sibling pid namespace.  What do we set the
> parent pid in the siginfo struct to.  I think we agreed that 0 (blame
> the kernel) is the appropriate pid last time we talked about this.
 
0 seems appropriate for a signal coming from a parent namespace, yes. but
here, we could be sending a signal from a child or sibling namespace.

> I'm worried now that the concept of vpid has confused someone.  It
> still doesn't feel right to me to call one pid value more or less
> virtual then any other so the concept of a virtual pid doesn't make
> sense to me.  The way I have always thought of it is:
> - pid_nr(struct pid *) 
>   The pid in the current pid namespace.
> - __pid_nr(struct pid_namespace, struct pid *) 
>   The pid in some specified pid namespace.
>
> With struct pid being defined to be global and doing something
> appropriate in all pid namespaces.
>
> Thinking about this concern that Cedric raises is actually independent
> of the mqueue namespace and seems to be totally a pid namespace thing.
> Because the only way this happens if we happen to share the mqueue
> namespace. (i.e. what we are doing now).

Is there a way to catch this general issue (we have the same in sigio)
in the kill*(struct pid) routines ? spit a big warning when the
current->nsproxy->pid_ns is not a parent ?

Thanks !

C.