Re: [PATCH 1/3] user namespaces: introduce user_struct->user_namespacerelationship

From: James Morris
Date: Mon Oct 06 2008 - 17:51:59 EST


On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:

> Quoting James Morris (jmorris@xxxxxxxxx):
> > 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.

I suggest feeding them into linux-next directly until you want them merged
with another tree. Are there known clashes with the creds work? If so,
the fixups could be carried in linux-next, or generate them against
creds-next-subsys for inclusion after that.

--
James Morris
<jmorris@xxxxxxxxx>
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