pid: Extend/Fix pid_vnr

pid_vnr returns the user space pid with respect to the pid namespace the
struct pid was allocated in.  What we want before we return a pid to user
space is the user space pid with respect to the pid namespace of current.

pid_vnr is a very nice optimization but because it isn't quite what we want
it is easy to use pid_vnr at times when we aren't certain the struct pid
was allocated in our pid namespace.

Currently this describes at least tiocgpgrp and tiocgsid in ttyio.c the
parent process reported in the core dumps and the parent process in
get_signal_to_deliver.

So unless the performance impact is huge having an interface that does what
we want instead of always what we want should be much more reliable and
much less error prone.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/pid.h b/include/linux/pid.h
index 061abb6c079..b91f4732dc1 100644
--- a/include/linux/pid.h
+++ b/include/linux/pid.h
@@ -127,9 +127,8 @@ extern void FASTCALL(free_pid(struct pid *pid));
  * the helpers to get the pid's id seen from different namespaces
  *
  * pid_nr()    : global id, i.e. the id seen from the init namespace;
- * pid_vnr()   : virtual id, i.e. the id seen from the namespace this pid
- *               belongs to. this only makes sence when called in the
- *               context of the task that belongs to the same namespace;
+ * pid_vnr()   : virtual id, i.e. the id seen from the pid namespace of
+ *               current.
  * pid_nr_ns() : id seen from the ns specified.
  *
  * see also task_xid_nr() etc in include/linux/sched.h
@@ -144,14 +143,7 @@ static inline pid_t pid_nr(struct pid *pid)
 }
 
 pid_t pid_nr_ns(struct pid *pid, struct pid_namespace *ns);
-
-static inline pid_t pid_vnr(struct pid *pid)
-{
-	pid_t nr = 0;
-	if (pid)
-		nr = pid->numbers[pid->level].nr;
-	return nr;
-}
+pid_t pid_vnr(struct pid *pid);
 
 #define do_each_pid_task(pid, type, task)				\
 	do {								\