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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux Containers <containers@lists.osdl.org>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>,
	sukadev@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pid: sys_wait... fixes
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 20:01:45 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071206170145.GA10674@tv-sign.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m17ijsv7iu.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>

On 12/05, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> This modifies do_wait and eligible_child to take a pair of
> enum pid_type and struct pid *pid to precisely specify what
> set of processes are eligible to be waited for,  instead of the
> raw pid_t value from sys_wait4.

Personally, I like this patch very much. Not only it fixes the bug,
in my opinion it also makes the code more clean.

However at first glance it has a minor fixable problem,

> +	if (type < PIDTYPE_MAX) {
> +		if (p->pids[type].pid != pid)
>  			return 0;
>  	}

If type != PIDTYPE_PID we can't trust p->pids[type].pid unless p is a
group leader. This .pid could be just a "random value".

Oleg.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-06 17:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-06  3:14 [PATCH] pid: sys_wait... fixes Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-06 17:01 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2007-12-06 17:21   ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-06 18:20   ` [PATCH] pid: sys_wait... fixes (v2) Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-06 18:45     ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-12-06 19:11       ` Eric W. Biederman

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