On 13/12/17, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 04:03:38PM -0500, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> task->pid is only ever assigned once (well ok, twice). For system health and
> secure logging confidence, make it const to make it much more intentional when
> it is being changed.
> ---
>
> Peter, as you had suggested, does this approach work for you in terms of making
> task_struct::pid a lot more difficult to accidentally change to try to preserve
> its integrity?
Yeah, looks good to me.
Ok, who would carry this patch? You? AKPM? Me?
Any opinions about Oleg's macro idea?
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