Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 15:43:54 +0200
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
        "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 4/9] sched: move no_new_privs into new atomic flags
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On 06/24, Kees Cook wrote:
>
> --- a/include/linux/sched.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sched.h
> @@ -1307,8 +1307,7 @@ struct task_struct {
>  				 * execve */
>  	unsigned in_iowait:1;
>
> -	/* task may not gain privileges */
> -	unsigned no_new_privs:1;
> +	unsigned long atomic_flags; /* Flags needing atomic access. */
>
>  	/* Revert to default priority/policy when forking */
>  	unsigned sched_reset_on_fork:1;

Agreed, personally I like it more than seccomp->flags.

But probably it would be better to place the new member before/after
other bitfields to save the space?

Oleg.

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