linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/7][RFC] pid: changes to support audit

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Message-ID: <20140124061447.GH7084@madcap2.tricolour.ca>
Date:	Fri, 24 Jan 2014 01:14:47 -0500
From:	Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@...hat.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	linux-audit@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	eparis@...hat.com, sgrubb@...hat.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	oleg@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7][RFC] pid: changes to support audit

On 14/01/23, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 02:32:33PM -0500, 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
> 
> I would have ordered them slightly different, but:

Can you briefly explain how and why so I can understand for next time?
I originally had the ppid patch first...

> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>

- RGB

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