linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kdbus: create /sys/fs/kdbus with sysfs_create_mount

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Date:	Mon, 17 Aug 2015 16:52:27 -0400
From:	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...oraproject.org>
To:	David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@...il.com>
Cc:	Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@...sk>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Daniel Mack <daniel@...que.org>,
	David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@...glemail.com>,
	Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@...ndz.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kdbus: create /sys/fs/kdbus with sysfs_create_mount_point()

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 1:23 PM, David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@...il.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 3:21 PM, Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@...sk> wrote:
>> Since 0cbee99269 user-namespace pull, if a kdbusfs is mounted on a
>> location that's not created with sysfs_create_mount_point the user
>> namespaces are not allowed to mount their sysfs instances.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@...sk>
>> ---
>> Applies on top of char-misc/kdbus a36324913.
>
> This does not apply on top of char-misc/kdbus. The tree lacks the
> necessary commits. But yeah, it's required for 4.2. I'll keep it
> starred until Greg back-merges 4.2.
>
> Anyway, this is still: Reviewed-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@...il.com>

Grumble.  Keeping track of this is getting to be somewhat of a pain.
Why isn't the kdbus-next branch already at 4.2?

So if one was carrying the contents of char-misc/kdbus as stand-alone
patches on top of 4.2-rc7, should your Reviewed-by count as "yes,
apply this patch in that instance?"

josh
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