linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4] signal: add taskfd_send

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Date:   Thu, 6 Dec 2018 10:30:40 -0800
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>
Cc:     "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Daniel Colascione <dancol@...gle.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@...har.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        "linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Tim Murray <timmurray@...gle.com>,
        linux-man <linux-man@...r.kernel.org>,
        Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] signal: add taskfd_send_signal() syscall

On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 9:41 AM Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io> wrote:
> I feel changing the name around by a single persons preferences is not
> really a nice thing to do community-wise. So I'd like to hear other
> people chime in first before I make that change.

I don't think the name is hugely critical (but it's always the hardest
to settle on). My preference order would be:

taskfd_send_signal()
pidfd_send_signal()
procfd_send_signal()
fd_send_signal()

But, agreed, I think fdkill() should not be used.

-- 
Kees Cook