From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linux Containers <containers@lists.osdl.org>,
linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: Fixup usb so it uses struct pid
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 14:37:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060910213746.GA9565@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1hczgfi3h.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 10:42:10PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> The problem by remember a user space process by it's pid it is
> possible that the process will exit, pid wrap around will occur and a
> different process will appear in it's place. Holding a reference
> to a struct pid avoid that problem, and paves the way
> for implementing a pid namespace.
>
> Also since usb is the only user of kill_proc_info_as_uid
> rename kill_proc_info_as_uid to kill_pid_info_as_uid
> and have the new version take a struct pid.
>
> This patch is against 2.6.18-rc6-mm1.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Looks good to me.
Do you want me to take this in my tree, or will you be going through
Andrew, like your other, related pid stuff? If through Andrew, please
feel free to add:
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-10 21:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-10 4:42 [PATCH] usb: Fixup usb so it uses struct pid Eric W. Biederman
2006-09-10 18:12 ` Pete Zaitcev
2006-09-10 20:04 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-09-12 14:52 ` [Devel] " Kirill Korotaev
2006-09-11 14:02 ` Herbert Poetzl
2006-09-10 21:37 ` Greg KH [this message]
2006-09-10 23:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
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