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Linus Torvalds 9ff7258575 Merge branch 'proc-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace
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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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.