- merge-sys_clone-sys_unshare-nsproxy-and-namespace.patch
removed from -mm tree
Cedric Le Goater
clg at fr.ibm.com
Mon Jun 18 04:51:20 PDT 2007
Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 06/17, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>> Let's look at copy_namespaces(), it does the same "get_xxx() in advance", but
>> -EPERM forgets to do put_nsproxy(), so we definitely have a leak in copy_process().
>
> Ugh, I am sorry, EPERM does put_nsproxy(). Still I can't understand why
> copy_namespaces() does get_nsproxy() unconditionally.
well, if you're cloning a new task and not unsharing some of the namespaces
you still want to increase the refcount on the nsproxy bc a new task is now
referencing it. nop ?
C.
More information about the Containers
mailing list