On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 02:05:50PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > The hidepid parameter values are becoming more and more and it becomes > > difficult to remember what each new magic number means. > > So I relooked at the code. And I think I was misreading things. > However I think it is a legitimate concern. > > Can you please mention in your description of this change that > switching from fsparam_u32 to fs_param_string is safe even when > using the new mount api because fsparam_u32 and fs_param_string > both are sent from userspace with "fsconfig(fd, FSCONFIG_SET_STRING, ...)". Sure. > Or words to that effect. Ideally you will even manually test that case > to confirm. I will add a selftest for this. -- Rgrds, legion