[PATCH 1/3] user namespaces: introduce user_struct->user_namespace relationship

Serge E. Hallyn serue at us.ibm.com
Mon Oct 6 07:11:01 PDT 2008


Quoting James Morris (jmorris at namei.org):
> On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> 
> > Hi James,
> > 
> > here are 3 patches to fix up the user namespaces a bit in preparation
> > for real userns work to begin.  Andrew had suggested that these be
> > rebased on top of your -next tree because they will conflict with
> > the credentials work.  But it looks like much of the credentials stuff
> > isn't in your next branch.  If you'd prefer that I port these to
> > creds-next, please let me know.  I'll have to do it eventually :)
> 
> creds-next is dead.
> 
> Code ready for the next merge window is in the 'next' branch, while the 
> current creds code is in the 'creds-next-subsys' branch, which hasn't been 
> picked up in linux-next yet because of LPC and sfr's vacation.
> 
> When do you expect these patches to be sent upstream?  Are they ready now 
> as an incremental change for 2.6.27?

Oh I'm not trying to get them into 2.6.28, I'm just trying to get them
more widely tested, hopefully aiming for 2.6.29.  They have been stable
in all of my tests, and the last patch fixes a real (behavioral - not
oops-inducing) bug in the current code, but I'm trying to figure out
which path they should take.

thanks,
-serge


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