Re: [patch] PID namespace design bug, workaround

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From: sukadev
Date: Saturday, November 3, 2007 - 1:01 pm

Pavel Emelianov [xemul@openvz.org] wrote:
| Ulrich Drepper wrote:
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| > Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
| >>> Isn't it this?
| >>>
| >>> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/1/141
| >> That was the initial problem, and I already answered to Ingo about
| >> it
| > 
| > No, look at my old mail which Ingo referenced in that posting.
| 
| You pointed only one problem that is not a variation of "how do 
| we handle the case when we pass our pid outside the namespace".
| 
| This problem with signals is now being resolved at IBM by Sukadev 
| and Serge (I put them in Cc), so this is about to be fixed by the
| time 2.6.24 releases (I hope).

Yes. We (Oleg, Eric included in Cc) have a patchset to address signals
issues in child pid namespaces. It is being discussed on Containers list:

https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/containers/2007-October/008240.html

We will post the patchset to LKML soon.

| 
| As far as the "passing the pid outside the namespace" is concerned, 
| is my answer "pids should never be used outside the namespace they
| came from, otherwise userspace won't work as expected" satisfactory?
| 
| So is "everything else", you mentioned, covered with the problems
| above?
| 
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[patch] PID namespace design bug, workaround, Ingo Molnar, (Thu Nov 1, 7:43 am)
Re: [patch] PID namespace design bug, workaround, Pavel Emelyanov, (Thu Nov 1, 7:51 am)
Re: [patch] PID namespace design bug, workaround, Ulrich Drepper, (Thu Nov 1, 7:53 am)
Re: [patch] PID namespace design bug, workaround, Peter Zijlstra, (Thu Nov 1, 7:56 am)
Re: [patch] PID namespace design bug, workaround, Ulrich Drepper, (Thu Nov 1, 7:56 am)
Re: [patch] PID namespace design bug, workaround, Pavel Emelyanov, (Thu Nov 1, 8:02 am)
Re: [patch] PID namespace design bug, workaround, Pavel Emelyanov, (Thu Nov 1, 8:05 am)
Re: [patch] PID namespace design bug, workaround, Ingo Molnar, (Thu Nov 1, 8:05 am)
Re: [patch] PID namespace design bug, workaround, Pavel Emelyanov, (Thu Nov 1, 8:06 am)
Re: [patch] PID namespace design bug, workaround, Ingo Molnar, (Thu Nov 1, 8:17 am)
Re: [patch] PID namespace design bug, workaround, Pavel Emelyanov, (Thu Nov 1, 8:30 am)
Re: [patch] PID namespace design bug, workaround, Dave Hansen, (Thu Nov 1, 9:12 am)
Re: [patch] PID namespace design bug, workaround, Theodore Tso, (Thu Nov 1, 11:57 am)
Re: [patch] PID namespace design bug, workaround, Ingo Molnar, (Thu Nov 1, 12:53 pm)
Re: [patch] PID namespace design bug, workaround, Ulrich Drepper, (Thu Nov 1, 5:21 pm)
Re: [patch] PID namespace design bug, workaround, Ulrich Drepper, (Thu Nov 1, 5:23 pm)
Re: [patch] PID namespace design bug, workaround, Pavel Emelyanov, (Fri Nov 2, 12:55 am)
Re: [patch] PID namespace design bug, workaround, Andrew Morton, (Fri Nov 2, 1:04 am)
Re: [patch] PID namespace design bug, workaround, Pavel Emelyanov, (Fri Nov 2, 1:14 am)
Re: [patch] PID namespace design bug, workaround, Ulrich Drepper, (Fri Nov 2, 7:05 am)
Re: [patch] PID namespace design bug, workaround, Pavel Emelyanov, (Fri Nov 2, 7:21 am)
Re: [patch] PID namespace design bug, workaround, Ulrich Drepper, (Fri Nov 2, 8:34 am)
Re: [patch] PID namespace design bug, workaround, Pavel Emelyanov, (Fri Nov 2, 8:58 am)
Re: [patch] PID namespace design bug, workaround, Dave Hansen, (Fri Nov 2, 10:30 am)
Re: [patch] PID namespace design bug, workaround, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Nov 2, 10:39 am)
Re: [patch] PID namespace design bug, workaround, Theodore Tso, (Fri Nov 2, 2:39 pm)
Re: [patch] PID namespace design bug, workaround, Nicholas Miell, (Fri Nov 2, 9:02 pm)
Re: [patch] PID namespace design bug, workaround, Ulrich Drepper, (Fri Nov 2, 9:34 pm)
Re: [patch] PID namespace design bug, workaround, sukadev, (Sat Nov 3, 1:01 pm)
Re: [patch] PID namespace design bug, workaround, Ingo Molnar, (Sat Nov 3, 1:12 pm)
Re: [patch] PID namespace design bug, workaround, Linus Torvalds, (Sat Nov 3, 3:40 pm)
Re: [patch] PID namespace design bug, workaround, Arjan van de Ven, (Sat Nov 3, 4:55 pm)
Re: [patch] PID namespace design bug, workaround, Eric W. Biederman, (Sun Nov 4, 12:17 am)
Re: [patch] PID namespaces, Ingo Molnar, (Sun Nov 4, 3:38 am)
Re: [patch] PID namespaces, Dave Hansen, (Sun Nov 4, 1:12 pm)
Re: [patch] PID namespaces, Denys Vlasenko, (Mon Nov 5, 7:47 am)
Re: [patch] PID namespace design bug, workaround, Pavel Emelyanov, (Tue Nov 6, 12:49 am)
Futexes and network filesystems., Er ic W. Biederman, (Tue Nov 20, 3:53 pm)
Re: Futexes and network filesystems., Kyle Moffett, (Tue Nov 20, 11:16 pm)
Re: Futexes and network filesystems., Eric W. Biederman, (Tue Nov 20, 11:30 pm)