linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH resend] user namespace: usb: make usb urbs user namespace aware (v2)

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1109231431550.2059-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
Date:	Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:35:09 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge.hallyn@...onical.com>
cc:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <richard@....at>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...gle.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] user namespace: usb: make usb urbs user namespace
 aware (v2)

On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:

> > > > This should be broken up into two separate patches: One to add
> > > > kill_pid_info_as_cred() and the other to modify the usbfs driver.
> > > 
> > > It seems like that would make the first patch harder to review (since
> > > it won't just show the changes from kill_pid_info_as_uid to
> > > kill_pid_info_as_cred), but I'll go ahead and split it up.  I assume
> > > kill_pid_info_as_uid should be removed in a third patch?
> > 
> > No, what I meant was that all the changes to /kernel/signal.c should be 
> > in one patch and all the changes to drivers/usb/core/devio.c should be 
> > in a second patch.
> 
> But doing that in two patches would not be bisect-safe.

Argh, you're right.

It's not a good idea to combine changes to widely differing subsystems
in a single patch, but luckily this is small enough that it doesn't
matter too much.  If nobody else minds, I won't complain.

Alan Stern

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