2008-09-11 10:35:07

by Eric W. Biederman

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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] sunrpc: fix oops in rpc_create() when the mount namespace is unshared

Cedric Le Goater <clg-NmTC/[email protected]> writes:

>> The conservative play is to always force use of the initial namespace
>> and to deny creation of mounts that would use different namespaces. In part
>> because the initial version of the namespace always exists. Which means
>> as relates to Cedrics initial patch we would still need to know which
>> mounts should cause us to use a different uts namespace so we can deny
>> them.
>
> I will send the initial patch which forces use of the initial namespace because
> it does fix a real oops.
>
> Then, I should be able to find some time to work on improving the uts namespace
> checks when NFS mounts are done.

Thanks.
Eric