linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] fork: extend clone3() to support CLONE_SET

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Message-ID: <20190802135248.gbtkh5sgjzmbup5h@brauner.io>
Date:   Fri, 2 Aug 2019 15:52:49 +0200
From:   Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>
To:     Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:     Adrian Reber <areber@...hat.com>,
        Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>,
        Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...tuozzo.com>,
        Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andrei Vagin <avagin@...il.com>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Radostin Stoyanov <rstoyanov1@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] fork: extend clone3() to support CLONE_SET_TID

On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 03:46:11PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 08/02, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> > So Adrian, sorry for confusion, I think your patch is fine.
> 
> Yes... but do we really need the new CLONE_SET_TID ?
> 
> set_tid == 0 has no effect, can't we simply check kargs->set_tid != 0
> before ns_capable() ?

Yeah, I agree that sounds much better and aligns with exit_signal.

Christian