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

Andrew, Are you willing to shepherd this patchset? On 14/01/23, 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 > > Richard Guy Briggs (7): > pid: change task_struct::pid to read-only > compiler: CONST_CAST makes writing const vars easier and obvious > pid: use the CONST_CAST macro instead to write to const > task_struct::pid > pid: modify task_tgid_nr to work without task->tgid. > pid: rewrite task helper function is_global_init() avoiding task->pid > pid: mark struct task const in helper functions > pid: get pid_t ppid of task in init_pid_ns > > arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 2 +- > fs/exec.c | 2 +- > include/linux/compiler.h | 8 ++++++ > include/linux/sched.h | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------- > kernel/fork.c | 5 ++- > kernel/pid.c | 4 +- > 6 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-) > - RGB -- Richard Guy Briggs <rbriggs(a)redhat.com&gt; Senior Software Engineer, Kernel Security, AMER ENG Base Operating Systems, Red Hat Remote, Ottawa, Canada Voice: +1.647.777.2635, Internal: (81) 32635, Alt: +1.613.693.0684x3545