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authorSerge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>2007-10-18 23:39:52 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-19 11:53:37 -0700
commitb460cbc581a53cc088ceba80608021dd49c63c43 (patch)
tree83c28d0adbc15f4157c77b40fa60c40a71cb8673 /security/commoncap.c
parent3743ca05ff464b8a9e345c08a6c9ce30485f9805 (diff)
downloadlinux-b460cbc581a53cc088ceba80608021dd49c63c43.tar.gz
pid namespaces: define is_global_init() and is_container_init()
is_init() is an ambiguous name for the pid==1 check.  Split it into
is_global_init() and is_container_init().

A cgroup init has it's tsk->pid == 1.

A global init also has it's tsk->pid == 1 and it's active pid namespace
is the init_pid_ns.  But rather than check the active pid namespace,
compare the task structure with 'init_pid_ns.child_reaper', which is
initialized during boot to the /sbin/init process and never changes.

Changelog:

	2.6.22-rc4-mm2-pidns1:
	- Use 'init_pid_ns.child_reaper' to determine if a given task is the
	  global init (/sbin/init) process. This would improve performance
	  and remove dependence on the task_pid().

	2.6.21-mm2-pidns2:

	- [Sukadev Bhattiprolu] Changed is_container_init() calls in {powerpc,
	  ppc,avr32}/traps.c for the _exception() call to is_global_init().
	  This way, we kill only the cgroup if the cgroup's init has a
	  bug rather than force a kernel panic.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment]
[sukadev@us.ibm.com: Use is_global_init() in arch/m32r/mm/fault.c]
[bunk@stusta.de: kernel/pid.c: remove unused exports]
[sukadev@us.ibm.com: Fix capability.c to work with threaded init]
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Herbert Poetzel <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'security/commoncap.c')
-rw-r--r--security/commoncap.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/security/commoncap.c b/security/commoncap.c
index 48ca5b092768..43f902750a1b 100644
--- a/security/commoncap.c
+++ b/security/commoncap.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #include <linux/xattr.h>
 #include <linux/hugetlb.h>
 #include <linux/mount.h>
+#include <linux/sched.h>
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES
 /*
@@ -334,7 +335,7 @@ void cap_bprm_apply_creds (struct linux_binprm *bprm, int unsafe)
 	/* For init, we want to retain the capabilities set
 	 * in the init_task struct. Thus we skip the usual
 	 * capability rules */
-	if (!is_init(current)) {
+	if (!is_global_init(current)) {
 		current->cap_permitted = new_permitted;
 		current->cap_effective = bprm->cap_effective ?
 				new_permitted : 0;