From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752749AbaBXSdJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Feb 2014 13:33:09 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:52522 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751867AbaBXSdH (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Feb 2014 13:33:07 -0500 Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 19:32:32 +0100 From: Oleg Nesterov To: Richard Guy Briggs Cc: peterz@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-audit@redhat.com, stable@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Eric W. Biederman" Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] pid: get pid_t ppid of task in init_pid_ns Message-ID: <20140224183232.GA21474@redhat.com> References: <328c85752a7eb053e72d9194827b91fc228d4f67.1390495874.git.rgb@redhat.com> <20140220190114.GC23993@redhat.com> <20140221181055.GE17952@madcap2.tricolour.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140221181055.GE17952@madcap2.tricolour.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 02/21, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > > On 14/02/20, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > > > imho it would be better to send this patch along with sys_getppid() > > conversions, but I won't argue. > > I don't think sys_getppid() should be changed since it is a syscall > whose userspace user would assume the working namespace. Sorry for confusion, I didn't mean we need to change sys_getppid(), > Many of the > kernel internal uses of it are likely wrong though, so fixing that > should probably fall under another patch. I fixed audit in another > patch. Yes, this is what I meant. And this patch should probably go into that series which fixes the in-kernel users of sys_getppid(). And in fact you already did this? I see another series which resends this patch as 1/5. Oleg.