From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, containers@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] file: Modify struct fown_struct to use a struct pid.
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 22:48:51 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060816184851.GC472@oleg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060816184529.GB472@oleg>
On 08/16, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> On 08/15, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >
> > File handles can be requested to send sigio and sigurg
> > to processes. By tracking the destination processes
> > using struct pid instead of pid_t we make the interface
> > safe from all potential pid wrap around problems.
>
> ....
>
> The second change is good (I'd say this is bugfix). It is
> not possible anymore to send the signal to not yet created
> processes via fcntl(F_SETOWN, last_pid + a_little), or hit
> a problem with pid re-use.
Damn, I read the patch but forgot to read the changelog :)
It clearly says "safe from all potential pid wrap around problems",
sorry.
Oleg.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-16 14:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-15 18:21 Start using struct pid Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-15 18:23 ` [PATCH 1/7] pid: Implement access helpers for a tacks various process groups Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-15 18:40 ` Dave Hansen
2006-08-15 19:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-16 8:04 ` [Containers] " Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-15 18:23 ` [PATCH 2/7] pid: Add do_each_pid_task Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-16 3:10 ` [Containers] " Serge E. Hallyn
2006-08-16 4:28 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-16 6:15 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-16 6:34 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-16 11:57 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-08-16 19:17 ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-08-17 21:16 ` [PATCH -mm] simplify pid iterators Oleg Nesterov
2006-08-15 18:23 ` [PATCH 3/7] pid: Implement signal functions that take a struct pid * Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-15 18:23 ` [PATCH 4/7] pid: Export the symbols needed to use " Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-15 18:23 ` [PATCH 5/7] pid: Implement pid_nr Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-15 18:37 ` Dave Hansen
2006-08-15 19:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-15 19:15 ` [Containers] " Dave Hansen
2006-08-16 6:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-16 16:27 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-16 17:48 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-16 18:19 ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-08-16 16:18 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-16 21:03 ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-08-16 17:18 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-15 18:23 ` [PATCH 6/7] vt: Update spawnpid to be a struct pid_t Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-15 18:53 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-15 18:45 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-16 8:04 ` [Containers] " Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-16 14:23 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-15 19:38 ` Ray Lehtiniemi
2006-08-16 19:35 ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-08-16 15:43 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-16 17:55 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-15 18:23 ` [PATCH 7/7] file: Modify struct fown_struct to use a struct pid Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-16 18:45 ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-08-16 18:48 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
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