From: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] sunrpc: fix oops in rpc_create() when the mount
 namespace is unshared
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:02:24 +0200
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> 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 !

C.