From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Christof Meerwald <cmeerw@cmeerw.org>,
Linux Containers <containers@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove the no longer needed pid_alive() check in __task_pid_nr_ns()
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 20:05:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200424180523.GD26802@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mu74517d.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org>
On 04/21, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > Starting from 2c4704756cab ("pids: Move the pgrp and session pid pointers
> > from task_struct to signal_struct") __task_pid_nr_ns() doesn't dereference
> > task->group_leader, we can remove the pid_alive() check.
> >
> > pid_nr_ns() has to check pid != NULL anyway, pid_alive() just adds the
> > unnecessary confusion.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Thanks, can you take this patch?
Oleg.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-24 18:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-19 20:13 SIGCHLD signal sometimes sent with si_pid==0 (Linux 5.6.5) Christof Meerwald
2020-04-20 17:05 ` [PATCH] signal: Avoid corrupting si_pid and si_uid in do_notify_parent Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-21 8:30 ` Christian Brauner
2020-04-21 9:28 ` Oleg Nesterov
2020-04-21 10:21 ` Christian Brauner
2020-04-21 11:11 ` Oleg Nesterov
2020-04-21 11:26 ` Christian Brauner
2020-04-21 12:17 ` Oleg Nesterov
2020-04-21 12:59 ` Christian Brauner
2020-04-21 13:42 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-21 11:28 ` Oleg Nesterov
2020-04-21 11:38 ` Christian Brauner
2020-04-21 10:28 ` Christian Brauner
2020-04-21 14:57 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-21 15:08 ` Christian Brauner
2020-04-21 9:04 ` Oleg Nesterov
2020-04-21 10:19 ` [PATCH] remove the no longer needed pid_alive() check in __task_pid_nr_ns() Oleg Nesterov
2020-04-21 10:50 ` Christian Brauner
2020-04-21 15:05 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-24 18:05 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2020-04-24 19:54 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-21 14:59 ` SIGCHLD signal sometimes sent with si_pid==0 (Linux 5.6.5) Eric W. Biederman
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