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From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
To: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
	Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>, Andrew Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
	Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com>,
	Tim Murray <timmurray@google.com>,
	linux-man <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] proc: get process file descriptor from /proc/<pid>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 07:32:33 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALCETrVvHu2dSJs1dpA-2ozGhZGxbGrnYbUuh98rkCdsz42rfg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181119103241.5229-2-christian@brauner.io>

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 2:33 AM Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io> wrote:
>
> With this patch an open() call on /proc/<pid> will give userspace a handle
> to struct pid of the process associated with /proc/<pid>. This allows to
> maintain a stable handle on a process.
> I have been discussing various approaches extensively during technical
> conferences this year culminating in a long argument with Eric at Linux
> Plumbers. The general consensus was that having a handle on a process
> should be something that is very simple and easy to maintain with the
> option of being extensible via a more advanced api if the need arises. I
> believe that this patch is the most simple, dumb, and therefore
> maintainable solution.

How does the mechanism you're adding here differ from proc_pid()?

  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-19 15:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-19 10:32 [PATCH v1 0/2] proc: allow signaling processes via file descriptors Christian Brauner
2018-11-19 10:32 ` [PATCH v1 1/2] proc: get process file descriptor from /proc/<pid> Christian Brauner
2018-11-19 15:32   ` Andy Lutomirski [this message]
2018-11-19 18:20     ` Christian Brauner
2018-11-19 10:32 ` [PATCH v1 2/2] signal: add procfd_signal() syscall Christian Brauner
2018-11-19 15:45   ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-19 15:57     ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-19 18:39     ` Christian Brauner
2018-11-19 15:59   ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-19 18:29     ` Christian Brauner
2018-11-19 19:02       ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-11-19 19:31         ` Christian Brauner
2018-11-19 19:39           ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-19 17:10   ` Eugene Syromiatnikov
2018-11-19 18:23     ` Christian Brauner
2018-11-19 17:14   ` Eugene Syromiatnikov
2018-11-19 20:28   ` Aleksa Sarai
2018-11-19 20:55     ` Christian Brauner
2018-11-19 21:13       ` Christian Brauner
2018-11-19 21:18       ` Aleksa Sarai
2018-11-19 21:20         ` Christian Brauner
2018-11-19 21:21         ` Christian Brauner
2018-11-19 21:25           ` Aleksa Sarai
2018-11-19 21:26           ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-19 21:36             ` Aleksa Sarai
2018-11-19 21:37             ` Christian Brauner
2018-11-19 21:41               ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-20  4:59                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-11-20 10:31                   ` Christian Brauner
2018-11-21 21:39                     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2018-11-19 21:23         ` Aleksa Sarai
2018-11-22  7:41           ` Serge E. Hallyn
2018-11-19 22:39   ` Tycho Andersen
2018-11-19 22:49     ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-19 23:07       ` Tycho Andersen
2018-11-20  0:27         ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-20  0:32           ` Christian Brauner
2018-11-20  0:34             ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-20  0:49           ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-22  7:48     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2018-11-19 23:35   ` kbuild test robot
2018-11-19 23:37   ` kbuild test robot
2018-11-19 23:45     ` Christian Brauner
2018-11-28 21:45   ` Joey Pabalinas
2018-11-28 22:05     ` Christian Brauner
2018-11-28 23:02       ` Joey Pabalinas
2018-11-19 10:32 ` [PATCH] procfd_signal.2: document procfd_signal syscall Christian Brauner
2018-11-20 13:29   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2018-11-28 20:59   ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-28 21:12     ` Christian Brauner

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