signals: add from_ancestor_ns parameter to send_signal()
authorSukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:58:04 +0000 (16:58 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 3 Apr 2009 02:04:58 +0000 (19:04 -0700)
commit7978b567d31555fc828b8f945c605ad29e117b22
treea66d7880f3031e417c2afb76c990ed5340565816
parentf008faff0e2777c8b3fe853891b774ca465938d8
signals: add from_ancestor_ns parameter to send_signal()

send_signal() (or its helper) needs to determine the pid namespace of the
sender.  But a signal sent via kill_pid_info_as_uid() comes from within
the kernel and send_signal() does not need to determine the pid namespace
of the sender.  So define a helper for send_signal() which takes an
additional parameter, 'from_ancestor_ns' and have kill_pid_info_as_uid()
use that helper directly.

The 'from_ancestor_ns' parameter will be used in a follow-on patch.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/signal.c