Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754188AbaBSQTb (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Feb 2014 11:19:31 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:14185 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753731AbaBSQT3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Feb 2014 11:19:29 -0500 Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 11:18:58 -0500 From: Richard Guy Briggs To: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: eparis@redhat.com, sgrubb@redhat.com, peterz@infradead.org, oleg@redhat.com, linux-audit@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7][RFC] pid: changes to support audit Message-ID: <20140219161858.GN16640@madcap2.tricolour.ca> References: <20131220140417.GE14884@madcap2.tricolour.ca> <8aa73d2b884439496f87d5f34c12ba9b4b40f7e5.1377032086.git.rgb@redhat.com> <20131217095801.GF21999@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20131220044826.GF14944@madcap2.tricolour.ca> <20131220085846.GA21999@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew, Are you willing to shepherd this patchset? On 14/01/23, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > These are a number of patches inspired by ebiederman's container work that were > included by me 2013-08-20 as the patchset: > RFC: steps to make audit pid namespace-safe > > They have been seperated out for the pid maintainer since there are no direct > dependencies from the audit pid namespace patchset with the exception of: > pid: get pid_t ppid of task in init_pid_ns > > Andrew, are you willing to adopt these? > > In particular, there is discussion around read-only task_struct::pid here: > https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/12/16/552 > > Richard Guy Briggs (7): > pid: change task_struct::pid to read-only > compiler: CONST_CAST makes writing const vars easier and obvious > pid: use the CONST_CAST macro instead to write to const > task_struct::pid > pid: modify task_tgid_nr to work without task->tgid. > pid: rewrite task helper function is_global_init() avoiding task->pid > pid: mark struct task const in helper functions > pid: get pid_t ppid of task in init_pid_ns > > arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 2 +- > fs/exec.c | 2 +- > include/linux/compiler.h | 8 ++++++ > include/linux/sched.h | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------- > kernel/fork.c | 5 ++- > kernel/pid.c | 4 +- > 6 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-) > - RGB -- Richard Guy Briggs Senior Software Engineer, Kernel Security, AMER ENG Base Operating Systems, Red Hat Remote, Ottawa, Canada Voice: +1.647.777.2635, Internal: (81) 32635, Alt: +1.613.693.0684x3545 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/