linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] user namespaces: document CFS behavior

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Message-ID: <20081209161620.GC9487@us.ibm.com>
Date:	Tue, 9 Dec 2008 10:16:20 -0600
From:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>
To:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
	Dhaval Giani <dhaval@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] user namespaces: document CFS behavior

Quoting James Morris (jmorris@...ei.org):
> On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> > > They're already published in my tree.  Do you want me to revert them?
> > 
> > I've also got it published :-/ If it's at the tail of your commits, can 
> > you reset it?
> 
> There have been commits since, and people are using the tree in any case.

Yikes.  Maybe it's best (henceforth) to keep user namespaces patches in
their own tree toward the end of linux-next?  There certainly are
security implications with all of them, but other things (filesystem,
sched) will be impacted as well...

Sorry.

-serge
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