linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] VFS patches, the first series

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Date:	Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:40:03 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [git pull] VFS patches, the first series

Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk> writes:

> The first part of huge pile.  Mostly it's untangling nameidata handling,
> digging towards the pieces that kill intents and cleaning pathname
> resolution in general.  ->permission() sanitizing and sysctl procfs
> treatment rewrite needed for it.  A bunch of descriptor handling fixes.
> Plus part of assorted patched from the last cycle sent by other folks.
> A _lot_ more is still pending; this is what I'd managed to pull into
> a series by this point.  Please, pull from
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6.git/ for-linus

Al a quick heads up.  In testing movement of network devices between
namespaces  I hit the recently added WARN_ON in unregister_sysctl_table.

More tomorrow when I get a after I have dug into this farther.

Eric
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