Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Jul 2009 09:46:51 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH][BUGFIX] cgroups: fix pid namespace bug | From | Paul Menage <> |
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On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Serge E. Hallyn<serue@us.ibm.com> wrote: > > 1. the only way it won't outlive the open file is if the > task opens the file, hands the open fd over a > unix socket, then exits as the last task of its > pidns
Right.
> 2. We don't dereference the pid_ns, so there is no actual > safety issue. So it would become a problem only > if a new pidns gets created at that same address
Which is fairly likely given that pid_namespace is allocated from a specific cache.
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