From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/12] pid: rewrite task helper functions avoiding task->pid and task->tgid Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 22:05:55 +0200 Message-ID: <20130822200555.GN31370@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-security-module-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Richard Guy Briggs Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, Eric Paris , Al Viro , Ingo Molnar , "Serge E. Hallyn" , John Johansen , James Morris , Andrew Morton , Oleg Nesterov , Kentaro Takeda , Tetsuo Handa , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Jiri Slaby List-Id: linux-audit@redhat.com On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 05:32:03PM -0400, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > This stops these four task helper functions from using the deprecated and > error-prone task->pid and task->tgid. > > (informed by ebiederman's ea5a4d01) > Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" > Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs > --- > include/linux/sched.h | 8 ++++---- > 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h > index 8e69807..46e739d 100644 > --- a/include/linux/sched.h > +++ b/include/linux/sched.h > @@ -1579,7 +1579,7 @@ static inline int pid_alive(struct task_struct *p) > */ > static inline int is_global_init(struct task_struct *tsk) > { > - return tsk->pid == 1; > + return task_pid_nr(tsk) == 1; > } > > extern struct pid *cad_pid; > @@ -1930,7 +1930,7 @@ extern struct task_struct *idle_task(int cpu); > */ > static inline bool is_idle_task(const struct task_struct *p) > { > - return p->pid == 0; > + return task_pid(p) == &init_struct_pid; > } > extern struct task_struct *curr_task(int cpu); > extern void set_curr_task(int cpu, struct task_struct *p); Why would you ever want to do this? It just makes these tests more expensive for no gain what so ff'ing ever.