[Devel] Re: [PATCH 3/5] pid: use namespaced iteration on processes while setting capability

Serge E. Hallyn serue at us.ibm.com
Thu Dec 18 09:04:34 PST 2008


Quoting Gowrishankar M (gowrishankar.m at linux.vnet.ibm.com):
> From: Gowrishankar M <gomuthuk at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> In piece of dead code, cap_set_all() propogates through processes outside
> PID namespace, as iteration is always in init PID namespace.
> 
> Below patch adjusts macro controller to use do_each_thread_in_ns() so that
> only processes in current namespace are scanned
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gowrishankar M <gowrishankar.m at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue at us.ibm.com>

> ---
>  kernel/capability.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/capability.c b/kernel/capability.c
> index 33e51e7..e3e3765 100644
> --- a/kernel/capability.c
> +++ b/kernel/capability.c
> @@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ static inline int cap_set_all(kernel_cap_t *effective,
>  	spin_lock(&task_capability_lock);
>  	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
> 
> -	do_each_thread(g, target) {
> +	do_each_thread_in_ns(g, target, current->nsproxy->pid_ns) {
>  		if (target == current
>  		    || is_container_init(target->group_leader))
>  			continue;
> -- 
> 1.5.5.1
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