On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 12:57:35PM -0700, Matt Helsley wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 09:38:00AM -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> > Quoting Louis Rilling ([email protected]):
> > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 04:39:55PM -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> > > > Support checkpoint and restart of tasks in nested pid namespaces.  At
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > > It would probably be safer too to use task_active_pid_ns() instead of
> > > task->nsproxy->pid_ns, just in case some PID namespace unsharing like 
> > > proposed
> > > by Eric makes it to mainline.
> > 
> > The task is frozen though so it shouldn't be able to unshare while being
> > checkpointed, right?  But it's probably better code anyway.
> 
> By the time it reaches checkpoint a frozen task is in the refrigerator
> -- most often in the signal delivery portion of syscall return. So it can't
> be making any new unshare/setns syscalls and any changes to the namespaces
> should be visible.

And what about a task having already unshared its pid namespace (from within
the container)? In this case, all pid-related stuff should be based on
task_active_pid_ns(), and ->nsproxy->pid_ns should be recorded too to correctly
restore pid unsharing.

Thanks,

Louis

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