Re: [PATCH v8 4/9] sched: move no_new_privs into new atomic flags
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Date: 2014-06-25 13:46:26
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On 06/24, Kees Cook wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
--- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h@@ -1307,8 +1307,7 @@ struct task_struct { * execve */ unsigned in_iowait:1; - /* task may not gain privileges */ - unsigned no_new_privs:1; + unsigned long atomic_flags; /* Flags needing atomic access. */ /* Revert to default priority/policy when forking */ unsigned sched_reset_on_fork:1;
Agreed, personally I like it more than seccomp->flags. But probably it would be better to place the new member before/after other bitfields to save the space? Oleg.