Re: [PATCH] autofs4: turn ->oz_pgrp into "struct pid *"

[Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>]

On 01/23, Ian Kent wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 08:34 +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> > I guess autofs4_show_options()->pid_vnr() is not exactly right, but hopefully
> > not worse than the current code.
>
> But shouldn't pid_vnr(sbi->oz_pgrp) report the pid as seen in the
> namespace of the calling process? In which case the only problem would
> be listing the mount table from a subordinate namespace that cannot see
> the process which did the mount, assuming fs namespace is not linked in
> some strict way to pid namespace, this could give an odd result. What
> might happen in this case Oleg?

Yes, nothing bad can happen. pid_vnr() just returns 0 if the calling
process can't see the namespace.

But I was worried about the case when, say, we are looking at
/subnamespace_root_mount/proc/mounts.

In that case pid_vnr() will report the pid_t in the global namespace,
this differs from the case when this file is read by its own namespace
as /proc/mounts.

I do not know whether this is right or not, though.

Oleg.