- merge-sys_clone-sys_unshare-nsproxy-and-namespace.patch removed from -mm tree

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 06/17, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> 
> However, nsproxy's code is full of strange unneeded get/put calls, for
> example:
> 
> 	struct uts_namespace *copy_utsname(int flags, struct uts_namespace *old_ns)
> 	{
> 		struct uts_namespace *new_ns;
> 
> 		BUG_ON(!old_ns);
> 		get_uts_ns(old_ns);
> 
> 		if (!(flags & CLONE_NEWUTS))
> 			return old_ns;
> 
> 		new_ns = clone_uts_ns(old_ns);
> 
> 		put_uts_ns(old_ns);
> 		return new_ns;
> 	}

Perhaps I missed something again, but this looks wrong to me.

copy_utsname() assumes that old_ns != NULL. OK, it should not.

However, clone_uts_ns() returns NULL if kmalloc() fails.
create_new_namespaces() checks IS_ERR(new_ns), but IS_ERR(NULL) = false.
So the next copy_namespaces/unshare_nsproxy_namespaces will oops ?

The same for all ->xxx_ns fields.

Oleg.