Rename nsproxy.pid_ns to nsproxy.pid_ns_for_children

nsproxy.pid_ns is *not* the task's pid namespace.  The name should clarify
that.

This makes it more obvious that setns on a pid namespace is weird --
it won't change the pid namespace shown in procfs.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/nsproxy.h b/include/linux/nsproxy.h
index 10e5947491c7..b4ec59d159ac 100644
--- a/include/linux/nsproxy.h
+++ b/include/linux/nsproxy.h
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ struct fs_struct;
  * A structure to contain pointers to all per-process
  * namespaces - fs (mount), uts, network, sysvipc, etc.
  *
+ * The pid namespace is an exception -- it's accessed using
+ * task_active_pid_ns.  The pid namespace here is the
+ * namespace that children will use.
+ *
  * 'count' is the number of tasks holding a reference.
  * The count for each namespace, then, will be the number
  * of nsproxies pointing to it, not the number of tasks.
@@ -27,7 +31,7 @@ struct nsproxy {
         struct uts_namespace *uts_ns;
         struct ipc_namespace *ipc_ns;
         struct mnt_namespace *mnt_ns;
-        struct pid_namespace *pid_ns;
+        struct pid_namespace *pid_ns_for_children;
         struct net           *net_ns;
 };
 extern struct nsproxy init_nsproxy;