Re: [PATCH 03/12] pid: get ppid pid_t of task in init_pid_ns safely

On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 02:31:59PM -0400, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 01:37:09PM -0700, John Johansen wrote: >> On 08/30/2013 12:56 PM, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: >>> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 07:21:55PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote: >>>> On 08/20, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: >>> Most of the instances are current, but the one called from apparmour is >>> stored. I've just learned that this is bad and someone else just chimed >>> in that they have a patch to remove it... >> >> the apparmor case isn't actually stored long term. The stored task will be >> a parameter that was passed into an lsm hook and the buffer that it is >> stored in dies before the hook is done. Its temporarily stored in the >> struct so that it can be passed into the lsm_audit fn, and printed into an >> allocated audit buffer. The text version in the audit buffer is what will >> exist beyond the hook. >> >> There are three patches, I'll reply them below once I have finished rebasing >> them to apply to the current tree instead of my dev tree. > > John, thanks for this context and fix. That helps simplify things. John, What's the status of this set of 3 patches? I don't see them upstream.