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authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>2013-08-22 20:39:16 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-08-27 19:52:52 +0200
commitc2b1df2eb42978073ec27c99cc199d20ae48b849 (patch)
tree5b7335ad7fc7e17a26a2e724c7f1f93970bc75fc /include
parentnet: Check the correct namespace when spoofing pid over SCM_RIGHTS (diff)
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Rename nsproxy.pid_ns to nsproxy.pid_ns_for_children
nsproxy.pid_ns is *not* the task's pid namespace. The name should clarify that. This makes it more obvious that setns on a pid namespace is weird -- it won't change the pid namespace shown in procfs. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/nsproxy.h6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/nsproxy.h b/include/linux/nsproxy.h
index 10e5947491c7..b4ec59d159ac 100644
--- a/include/linux/nsproxy.h
+++ b/include/linux/nsproxy.h
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ struct fs_struct;
* A structure to contain pointers to all per-process
* namespaces - fs (mount), uts, network, sysvipc, etc.
*
+ * The pid namespace is an exception -- it's accessed using
+ * task_active_pid_ns. The pid namespace here is the
+ * namespace that children will use.
+ *
* 'count' is the number of tasks holding a reference.
* The count for each namespace, then, will be the number
* of nsproxies pointing to it, not the number of tasks.
@@ -27,7 +31,7 @@ struct nsproxy {
struct uts_namespace *uts_ns;
struct ipc_namespace *ipc_ns;
struct mnt_namespace *mnt_ns;
- struct pid_namespace *pid_ns;
+ struct pid_namespace *pid_ns_for_children;
struct net *net_ns;
};
extern struct nsproxy init_nsproxy;