[RFC][PATCH 03/14] use pid_nr in procfs
Eric W. Biederman
ebiederm at xmission.com
Wed Mar 21 00:46:12 PDT 2007
sukadev at us.ibm.com writes:
> From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev at us.ibm.com>
> Subject: [RFC][PATCH 03/14] use pid_nr in procfs
>
> With containers, a process can have different pid_t values in different
> pid namespaces. To ensure we get the correct pid_t value in any context,
> we should use pid_nr() function rather than directly accessing either
> task->pid or pid->nr.
To clarify my previous comment. I believe to get this right
we need a factor of pid_nr:
pid_t __pid_nr(struct pid_namespace *ns, struct pid *pid)
That we can pass the pid_namespace from the super block of the
mount to handle the proc case.
This is a case I have wanted to avoid but in this instance I don't
see any other way to get the code correct.
i.e. Since the pid namespace of /proc gets set at mount time who
you are should not vary the result it gives.
Eric
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