Re: [PATCH 0/7][RFC] pid: changes to support audit

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 01:14:47AM -0500, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > On 14/01/23, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 02:32:33PM -0500, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > > > These are a number of patches inspired by ebiederman's container work that were > > > included by me 2013-08-20 as the patchset: > > > RFC: steps to make audit pid namespace-safe > > > > > > They have been seperated out for the pid maintainer since there are no direct > > > dependencies from the audit pid namespace patchset with the exception of: > > > pid: get pid_t ppid of task in init_pid_ns > > > > > > Andrew, are you willing to adopt these? > > > > > > In particular, there is discussion around read-only task_struct::pid here: > > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/12/16/552 > > > > I would have ordered them slightly different, but: > > Can you briefly explain how and why so I can understand for next time? > I originally had the ppid patch first... Ah, I would have introduced CONST_CAST() earlier, then used it in the make pid const and then avoided the conversion patch.