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    Merge branch 'proc-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace · 9ff72585
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Pull proc updates from Eric Biederman:
     "This has four sets of changes:
    
       - modernize proc to support multiple private instances
    
       - ensure we see the exit of each process tid exactly
    
       - remove has_group_leader_pid
    
       - use pids not tasks in posix-cpu-timers lookup
    
      Alexey updated proc so each mount of proc uses a new superblock. This
      allows people to actually use mount options with proc with no fear of
      messing up another mount of proc. Given the kernel's internal mounts
      of proc for things like uml this was a real problem, and resulted in
      Android's hidepid mount options being ignored and introducing security
      issues.
    
      The rest of the changes are small cleanups and fixes that came out of
      my work to allow this change to proc. In essence it is swapping the
      pids in de_thread during exec which removes a special case the code
      had to handle. Then updating the code to stop handling that special
      case"
    
    * 'proc-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
      proc: proc_pid_ns takes super_block as an argument
      remove the no longer needed pid_alive() check in __task_pid_nr_ns()
      posix-cpu-timers: Replace __get_task_for_clock with pid_for_clock
      posix-cpu-timers: Replace cpu_timer_pid_type with clock_pid_type
      posix-cpu-timers: Extend rcu_read_lock removing task_struct references
      signal: Remove has_group_leader_pid
      exec: Remove BUG_ON(has_group_leader_pid)
      posix-cpu-timer:  Unify the now redundant code in lookup_task
      posix-cpu-timer: Tidy up group_leader logic in lookup_task
      proc: Ensure we see the exit of each process tid exactly once
      rculist: Add hlists_swap_heads_rcu
      proc: Use PIDTYPE_TGID in next_tgid
      Use proc_pid_ns() to get pid_namespace from the proc superblock
      proc: use named enums for better readability
      proc: use human-readable values for hidepid
      docs: proc: add documentation for "hidepid=4" and "subset=pid" options and new mount behavior
      proc: add option to mount only a pids subset
      proc: instantiate only pids that we can ptrace on 'hidepid=4' mount option
      proc: allow to mount many instances of proc in one pid namespace
      proc: rename struct proc_fs_info to proc_fs_opts
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