Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 09:46:51 +1100 (EST)
From: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
To: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
       David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
       Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
       Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] user namespaces: let user_ns be cloned with
 fairsched
In-Reply-To: <20081203191706.GA16433@us.ibm.com>
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On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:

> (These two patches are in the next-unacked branch of
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sergeh/userns-2.6.
> If they get some ACKs, then I hope to feed this into security-next.
> After these two, I think we're ready to tackle userns+capabilities)
> 
> Fairsched creates a per-uid directory under /sys/kernel/uids/.
> So when you clone(CLONE_NEWUSER), it tries to create
> /sys/kernel/uids/0, which already exists, and you get back
> -ENOMEM.
> 
> This was supposed to be fixed by sysfs tagging, but that
> was postponed (ok, rejected until sysfs locking is fixed).
> So, just as with network namespaces, we just don't create
> those directories for user namespaces other than the init.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>

Applied to 
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6#next


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James Morris
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