diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index 4ecb5edc3c612263524b409ed992f4c7e6fd418d..b8f06273353e9fe9b9e3e801fbd9ceff7212ed42 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -697,11 +697,11 @@ static int proc_pid_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask)
 	task = get_proc_task(inode);
 	if (!task)
 		return -ESRCH;
-	has_perms = has_pid_permissions(pid, task, 1);
+	has_perms = has_pid_permissions(pid, task, HIDEPID_NO_ACCESS);
 	put_task_struct(task);
 
 	if (!has_perms) {
-		if (pid->hide_pid == 2) {
+		if (pid->hide_pid == HIDEPID_INVISIBLE) {
 			/*
 			 * Let's make getdents(), stat(), and open()
 			 * consistent with each other.  If a process
@@ -1737,7 +1737,7 @@ int pid_getattr(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct dentry *dentry, struct kstat *stat)
 	stat->gid = GLOBAL_ROOT_GID;
 	task = pid_task(proc_pid(inode), PIDTYPE_PID);
 	if (task) {
-		if (!has_pid_permissions(pid, task, 2)) {
+		if (!has_pid_permissions(pid, task, HIDEPID_INVISIBLE)) {
 			rcu_read_unlock();
 			/*
 			 * This doesn't prevent learning whether PID exists,
@@ -3168,7 +3168,7 @@ int proc_pid_readdir(struct file *file, struct dir_context *ctx)
 		int len;
 
 		cond_resched();
-		if (!has_pid_permissions(ns, iter.task, 2))
+		if (!has_pid_permissions(ns, iter.task, HIDEPID_INVISIBLE))
 			continue;
 
 		len = snprintf(name, sizeof(name), "%d", iter.tgid);
diff --git a/fs/proc/inode.c b/fs/proc/inode.c
index 7ad9ed7958af47a355be9e27ed8501d98d4de0d1..2cc7a8030275c1bc98a0da9adb870b33d99f5433 100644
--- a/fs/proc/inode.c
+++ b/fs/proc/inode.c
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ static int proc_show_options(struct seq_file *seq, struct dentry *root)
 
 	if (!gid_eq(pid->pid_gid, GLOBAL_ROOT_GID))
 		seq_printf(seq, ",gid=%u", from_kgid_munged(&init_user_ns, pid->pid_gid));
-	if (pid->hide_pid != 0)
+	if (pid->hide_pid != HIDEPID_OFF)
 		seq_printf(seq, ",hidepid=%u", pid->hide_pid);
 
 	return 0;
diff --git a/fs/proc/root.c b/fs/proc/root.c
index 1988440b20496386303daec0190546261131a3b0..b90da888b81a3aed2a64d83b9167ab81036fc452 100644
--- a/fs/proc/root.c
+++ b/fs/proc/root.c
@@ -58,7 +58,8 @@ int proc_parse_options(char *options, struct pid_namespace *pid)
 		case Opt_hidepid:
 			if (match_int(&args[0], &option))
 				return 0;
-			if (option < 0 || option > 2) {
+			if (option < HIDEPID_OFF ||
+			    option > HIDEPID_INVISIBLE) {
 				pr_err("proc: hidepid value must be between 0 and 2.\n");
 				return 0;
 			}
diff --git a/include/linux/pid_namespace.h b/include/linux/pid_namespace.h
index 34cce96741bc1dfb9966cb8b84da8eb6452464ed..c2a989dee876360d85f305965e34c1dddc0a9c12 100644
--- a/include/linux/pid_namespace.h
+++ b/include/linux/pid_namespace.h
@@ -21,6 +21,12 @@ struct pidmap {
 
 struct fs_pin;
 
+enum { /* definitions for pid_namespace's hide_pid field */
+	HIDEPID_OFF	  = 0,
+	HIDEPID_NO_ACCESS = 1,
+	HIDEPID_INVISIBLE = 2,
+};
+
 struct pid_namespace {
 	struct kref kref;
 	struct pidmap pidmap[PIDMAP_ENTRIES];