linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] pidfd: add NSpid entries to fdinfo

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Message-ID: <3159d545105613416961ff50572f6686cdee03ee.camel@kellner.me>
Date:   Mon, 14 Oct 2019 17:20:57 +0200
From:   Christian Kellner <christian@...lner.me>
To:     Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>
Cc:     Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@...har.com>,
        Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@...el.com>,
        Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>,
        "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@...linux.org>,
        Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pidfd: add NSpid entries to fdinfo

On Mon, 2019-10-14 at 17:10 +0200, Jann Horn wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 12:32 PM Christian Brauner wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 11:43:01AM +0200, Christian Kellner wrote:
> > You could probably do:
> > 
> > #ifdef CONFIG_PID_NS
> > seq_put_decimal_ull(m, "\nNSpid:\t", nr);
> > for (i = ns->level + 1; i <= pid->level && nr; i++)
> >         seq_put_decimal_ull(m, "\t", pid->numbers[i].nr);
> > #endif
> 
> Personally, I dislike hiding the precondition for running the loop in
> the loop statement like that. While it makes the code more concise,
> it somewhat obfuscates the high-level logic at a first glance.
I agree and it has the side-effect of needing another #ifdef at the end
of the variable block for "i". I think I will go with:

if (nr) {
	int i;

	/* If nr is non-zero it means that 'pid' is valid and that
	 * ns, i.e. the pid namespace associated with the procfs
	 * instance, is in the pid namespace hierarchy of pid.
	 * Start at one below the already printed level.
	 */
	for (i = ns->level + 1; i <= pid->level; i++)
		seq_put_decimal_ull(m, "\t", pid->numbers[i].nr);
}

I will re-work the comment block and then send a new version of
the patch.

Thanks,
Christian