netdev - Re: [PATCH] netns: Fix get_net_ns_by

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Date:	Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:56:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ebiederm@...ssion.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, containers@...ts.osdl.org,
	dlunev@...il.com, benjamin.thery@...l.net, dlezcano@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netns: Fix get_net_ns_by_pid

From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:29:41 -0600

> 
> The pid namespace patches changed the semantics of
> find_task_by_pid without breaking the compile resulting
> in get_net_ns_by_pid doing the wrong thing.
> 
> So switch to using the intended find_task_by_vpid.
> 
> Combined with Denis' earlier patch to make netlink traffic
> fully synchronous the inadvertent race I introduced with
> accessing current is actually removed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>

Applied, thanks.
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