linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][BUGFIX] cgroups: fix pid namespace bug

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Date:	Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:29:00 -0700
From:	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	serue@...ibm.com, lizf@...fujitsu.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][BUGFIX] cgroups: fix pid namespace bug

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Andrew Morton<akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> I do think we should lean toward fixing it.  After all, it used to work
> OK and now it doesn't.
>
> It is a three-minute matter of patch-wrangling to take the fix out
> again within a more comprehensive 2.6.32 patch series, so that's not an
> issue.
>
> So are there any strong (enough) objections to putting this into 2.6.31?
>

I guess no strong objection on the principle, but the patch as it
stands is missing a couple of pid_ns refcount operations in order to
be a complete fix (IMO).

Paul
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