From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] sunrpc: fix oops in rpc_create() when the mount namespace is unshared Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:27:29 -0700 Message-ID: References: <48C52B29.4020204@fr.ibm.com> <20080909124311.GA10053@us.ibm.com> <20080909152952.GA21207@us.ibm.com> <48C791F9.8090606@fr.ibm.com> <76bd70e30809100812r4a7fa71crfc7196350e3ed1cf@mail.gmail.com> <48C8DEA0.9080905@fr.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: chucklever@gmail.com, "Serge E. Hallyn" , Andrew Morton , Trond Myklebust , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Containers , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org To: Cedric Le Goater Return-path: Received: from out01.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.231]:60583 "EHLO out01.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752198AbYIKKfH (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:35:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: <48C8DEA0.9080905-NmTC/0ZBporQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> (Cedric Le Goater's message of "Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:02:24 +0200") Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Cedric Le Goater 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