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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>,
	James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ptrace: selinux_bprm_committed_creds: simplify __wake_up_parent() code and s/parent/real_parent/
Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 22:10:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090503201027.GB18889@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090430224407.63B9DFC3BF@magilla.sf.frob.com>

On 04/30, Roland McGrath wrote:
>
> > Afaics, with this patch the only user of ->parent outside of ptrace.c & co
> > is arch/ia64/kernel/mca.c:format_mca_init_stack(). Hopefully ->parent will
> > die soon.
>
> You could clean it up today with:
> 	tracehook_finish_clone(p, 0, 0);

Yes... but we still need to initialize real_parent/group_leader. This code
is so special, perhaps it is better to just remove "p->parent = " later and
do not add "#include tracehook". We will see.

Oleg.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-03 20:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-28 22:30 Q: selinux_bprm_committed_creds() && signals/do_wait Oleg Nesterov
2009-04-28 23:33 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-04-29 16:01   ` [PATCH] do_wait: do take security_task_wait() into account Oleg Nesterov
2009-04-30 20:31     ` Roland McGrath
2009-04-30 22:51     ` James Morris
2009-05-06 11:46       ` Stephen Smalley
2009-04-29  0:29 ` Q: selinux_bprm_committed_creds() && signals/do_wait James Morris
2009-04-29  6:58   ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-04-29 10:02     ` David Howells
2009-04-29 10:25       ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-04-29 11:17         ` David Howells
2009-04-29 11:55           ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-04-29 12:42             ` David Howells
2009-04-29 12:45               ` David Howells
2009-04-29 13:28                 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-04-30  0:37                   ` James Morris
2009-04-29 12:20     ` Stephen Smalley
2009-04-29 12:56       ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-04-29 13:16         ` Stephen Smalley
2009-04-29 13:42           ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-04-29 13:43             ` Stephen Smalley
2009-04-29 14:47           ` Alan Cox
2009-04-29 15:39             ` Stephen Smalley
2009-04-29 13:18 ` Stephen Smalley
2009-04-29 13:30   ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-04-29 14:02   ` ptrace: selinux_bprm_committed_creds: simplify __wake_up_parent() code and s/parent/real_parent/ Oleg Nesterov
2009-04-29 14:08     ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-04-30 22:44       ` Roland McGrath
2009-05-03 20:10         ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2009-05-04 17:38           ` Roland McGrath
2009-04-30  0:38     ` James Morris
2009-04-30 22:38     ` Roland McGrath
2009-04-29 14:48 ` Q: selinux_bprm_committed_creds() && signals/do_wait Alan Cox
2009-05-01  0:02 ` Roland McGrath
2009-05-01  0:44   ` David Howells
2009-05-01  0:50     ` Roland McGrath
2009-05-03 20:21   ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-05-04 17:34     ` Roland McGrath

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