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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Aleksa Sarai <asarai@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux Containers <containers@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] namespaces related fixes for v4.11-rc1
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 14:29:45 +1300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8737f54rue.fsf@xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84361910-ba16-79ff-09cd-c76b3f66cc85@suse.de> (Aleksa Sarai's message of "Thu, 23 Feb 2017 08:15:46 +1100")

Aleksa Sarai <asarai@suse.de> writes:

>> The only known user of this prctl systemd
>> forks all children after the prctl.  So no userspace regressions will
>> occur.
>
> Note that runC and containerd (and thus Docker) as well as cri-o use the prctl
> as well -- to be able to collect exit codes from a non-child process (namely to
> collect the exit code from PID 1 in the container).

Are any of those affected by the change?  I would not expect so.  As it
would require having children or grand children whose exit codes you
don't want to collect.

Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-23  1:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-22 20:48 [GIT PULL] namespaces related fixes for v4.11-rc1 Eric W. Biederman
2017-02-22 21:15 ` Aleksa Sarai
2017-02-23  1:29   ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2017-02-23  2:21     ` Aleksa Sarai
2017-02-23  3:06     ` Andy Lutomirski

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