[REVIEW][PATCH 09/11] ipc/shm: Fix shmctl(..., IPC_STAT, ...) between pid namespaces.

[Nagarathnam Muthusamy]

On 03/28/2018 04:04 PM, ebiederm at xmission.com wrote:
> NAGARATHNAM MUTHUSAMY <nagarathnam.muthusamy at oracle.com> writes:
>
>> On 3/23/2018 2:33 PM, ebiederm at xmission.com wrote:
>>> NAGARATHNAM MUTHUSAMY <nagarathnam.muthusamy at oracle.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> Reviewed-by: Nagarathnam Muthusamy <nagarathnam.muthusamy at oracle.com>
>>> Does this look like it will address the issue you have been fighting
>>> with pids?
>> We do use IPC shared memory but it is a single large one, shared by multiple
>> levels. We are currently looking into using a similar solution based on file
>> locks.
>> When a new level is created, a file representing that level could be created in
>> a common path which could be locked by the init process of that level.
>> Parent levels could query the locking pid of that file to get the pid
>> translation
>> of the init process of the required level. Then it could open a file descriptor
>> and use the translate_pid API for further translations.
> Do you want to resend the translate_pid API with file descriptors as it
> was in the lwn article?  That I will apply.

Sure Eric! We are currently implementing and testing the file locks + FD 
based
approach, just to make sure it covers all the requirements. Will resend the
patch with FD based translate_pid API in few days.

Thanks,
Nagarathnam.
>
> Eric

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