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Message-ID: <Ya2yXZAn+36yhfdU@unreal>
Date:   Mon, 6 Dec 2021 08:49:01 +0200
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To:     Leo Yan <leo.yan@...aro.org>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        Mike Leach <mike.leach@...aro.org>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jan Harkes <jaharkes@...cmu.edu>, coda@...cmu.edu,
        Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>,
        Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>,
        Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, coresight@...ts.linaro.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, codalist@...a.cs.cmu.edu,
        linux-audit@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/7] pid: Introduce helper task_is_in_root_ns()

On Sun, Dec 05, 2021 at 10:50:59PM +0800, Leo Yan wrote:
> Currently the kernel uses open code in multiple places to check if a
> task is in the root PID namespace with the kind of format:
> 
>   if (task_active_pid_ns(current) == &init_pid_ns)
>       do_something();
> 
> This patch creates a new helper function, task_is_in_root_ns(), it
> returns true if a passed task is in the root PID namespace, otherwise
> returns false.  So it will be used to replace open codes.
> 
> Suggested-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>
> Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@...aro.org>
> ---
>  include/linux/pid_namespace.h | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/pid_namespace.h b/include/linux/pid_namespace.h
> index 7c7e627503d2..bf82b373f022 100644
> --- a/include/linux/pid_namespace.h
> +++ b/include/linux/pid_namespace.h
> @@ -86,4 +86,9 @@ extern struct pid_namespace *task_active_pid_ns(struct task_struct *tsk);
>  void pidhash_init(void);
>  void pid_idr_init(void);
>  
> +static inline bool task_is_in_root_ns(struct task_struct *tsk)

It is bad that this name doesn't reflect PID nature of this namespace.
Won't it better to name it task_is_in_init_pid_ns()?

Thanks

> +{
> +	return task_active_pid_ns(tsk) == &init_pid_ns;
> +}
> +
>  #endif /* _LINUX_PID_NS_H */
> -- 
> 2.25.1
>