Hi David, Evgeniy,

Sorry to bother you, but could you please comment about the UAPI change and the 
patch?

Thanks, Jesper.

--
Stefan

On 05/04/18 12:07, Jesper Derehag wrote:
> Unless David comes back with something I have (also) missed regarding uapi 
> breakage, this looks good to me.
> 
> /Jesper
> 
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> Från: Stefan Strogin <sstro...@cisco.com>
> Skickat: den 2 april 2018 17:18
> Till: David Miller
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> events
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> I don't see how it breaks UAPI. The point is that structures
> coredump_proc_event and exit_proc_event are members of *union*
> event_data, thus position of the existing data in the structure is
> unchanged. Furthermore, this change won't increase size of struct
> proc_event, because comm_proc_event (also a member of event_data) is
> of bigger size than the changed structures.
> 
> If I'm wrong, could you please explain what exactly will the change
> break in UAPI?
> 
> 
> On 30/03/18 19:59, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Stefan Strogin <sstro...@cisco.com>
>> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 17:12:47 +0300
>>
>>> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/cn_proc.h b/include/uapi/linux/cn_proc.h
>>> index 68ff25414700..db210625cee8 100644
>>> --- a/include/uapi/linux/cn_proc.h
>>> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/cn_proc.h
>>> @@ -116,12 +116,16 @@ struct proc_event {
>>>              struct coredump_proc_event {
>>>                      __kernel_pid_t process_pid;
>>>                      __kernel_pid_t process_tgid;
>>> +                    __kernel_pid_t parent_pid;
>>> +                    __kernel_pid_t parent_tgid;
>>>              } coredump;
>>>
>>>              struct exit_proc_event {
>>>                      __kernel_pid_t process_pid;
>>>                      __kernel_pid_t process_tgid;
>>>                      __u32 exit_code, exit_signal;
>>> +                    __kernel_pid_t parent_pid;
>>> +                    __kernel_pid_t parent_tgid;
>>>              } exit;
>>>
>>>      } event_data;
>>
>> I don't think you can add these members without breaking UAPI.
>>
> 

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