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Message-Id: <1193681247.24087.206.camel@localhost>
Date:	Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:07:27 -0700
From:	Dave Hansen <haveblue@...ibm.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	"Sukadev Bhattiprolu [imap]" <sukadev@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pidns: Limit kill -1 and cap_set_all

On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 11:59 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> ier to read.)  Also, can
> > we think of any better name for this?  It seems a bit funky that:
> >
> >       pid_in_pid_ns(mypid, &init_pid_ns);
> >
> > would _ever_ return 0.
> 
> It can't.
> 
> > So, it isn't truly a test for belonging *in* a
> > namespace, but having that namespace be the lowest level one. 
> 
> No.  It is precisely a test for being in a namespace.
> We first check ns->level to make certain it doesn't fall out
> of the array, and then we check to see if the namespace we
> are looking for is at that level.
> 
> pid->numbers[0].ns == &init_pid_ns.

Ahhh.  I misparsed the:

	pid->numbers[ns->level].ns == ns;

line to be checking at the pid level.  You're right, it works fine as it
stands.

-- Dave

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