Re: [PATCH 2/2] user namespace: usb: make usb urbs user namespaceaware (v2)

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 07:41:57AM -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting Greg KH (greg@xxxxxxxxx):
> > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 10:45:18AM -0500, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> > > Add to the dev_state and alloc_async structures the user namespace
> > > corresponding to the uid and euid.  Pass these to kill_pid_info_as_uid(),
> > > which can then implement a proper, user-namespace-aware uid check.
> > > 
> > > Changelog:
> > > Sep 20: Per Oleg's suggestion: Instead of caching and passing user namespace,
> > > 	uid, and euid each separately, pass a struct cred.
> > > Sep 26: Address Alan Stern's comments: don't define a struct cred at
> > > 	usbdev_open(), and take and put a cred at async_completed() to
> > > 	ensure it lasts for the duration of kill_pid_info_as_cred().
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > I have no objection to this, is it going to go through your tree, or
> > somewhere else?
> 
> (Silly question from me, but just to make sure - were you asking this of
> Alan?)

Nope, you.  Do you have a tree for this type of namespace work?  I
haven't been paying attention to it at all.

If not, I'll gladly take it myself, I just don't want to cause any merge
conflicts anywhere else if at all possible.

thanks,

greg k-h
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