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pid: get pid_t ppid of task in init_pid_ns
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Added the functions task_ppid_nr_ns() and task_ppid_nr() to abstract the lookup
of the PPID (real_parent's pid_t) of a process, including rcu locking, in the
arbitrary and init_pid_ns.
This provides an alternative to sys_getppid(), which is relative to the child
process' pid namespace.

(informed by ebiederman's 6c621b7e)
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
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Richard Guy Briggs authored and Eric Paris committed Mar 20, 2014
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20 changes: 19 additions & 1 deletion include/linux/sched.h
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Expand Up @@ -1561,6 +1561,24 @@ static inline pid_t task_tgid_vnr(struct task_struct *tsk)
}


static int pid_alive(const struct task_struct *p);
static inline pid_t task_ppid_nr_ns(const struct task_struct *tsk, struct pid_namespace *ns)
{
pid_t pid = 0;

rcu_read_lock();
if (pid_alive(tsk))
pid = task_tgid_nr_ns(rcu_dereference(tsk->real_parent), ns);
rcu_read_unlock();

return pid;
}

static inline pid_t task_ppid_nr(const struct task_struct *tsk)
{
return task_ppid_nr_ns(tsk, &init_pid_ns);
}

static inline pid_t task_pgrp_nr_ns(struct task_struct *tsk,
struct pid_namespace *ns)
{
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*
* Return: 1 if the process is alive. 0 otherwise.
*/
static inline int pid_alive(struct task_struct *p)
static inline int pid_alive(const struct task_struct *p)
{
return p->pids[PIDTYPE_PID].pid != NULL;
}
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