[Devel] Re: [PATCH 2/5] pid: use namespaced iteration on processes while using sysrq

[Eric W. Biederman]

Gowrishankar M <gowrishankar.m at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:

> From: Gowrishankar M <gomuthuk at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> At present, while signalling processes using sysrq, process iteration
> goes beyond current PID namespace.
>
> Below patch uses one of the proposed namespace iteration macros to fix
> the boundary.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gowrishankar M <gowrishankar.m at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Nacked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm at xmission.com>

sysrq is a debugging helper and send_sig_all should apply to
ever process in the system.  It should only apply to the initial
pid namespace.

Attempting to make it namespace aware is wrong.


Eric
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