linux-kernel - Re: [REVIEW][PATCH v2] mm: Add a user_ns owner to mm

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Date:   Fri, 28 Oct 2016 01:34:30 +0300
From:   Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:     "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Andrey Vagin <avagin@...tuozzo.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...tuozzo.com>,
        Linux Containers <containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        Jann Horn <jann@...jh.net>
Subject: Re: [REVIEW][PATCH v2] mm: Add a user_ns owner to mm_struct and fix
 ptrace permission checks

On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 12:39:18AM +0300, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 10:54:34AM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > I can't imagine either of these changes making a practical difference
> > to anyone but I am calling them out in case someone can.
> > 
> >  include/linux/mm_types.h |  1 +
> >  kernel/fork.c            |  9 ++++++---
> >  kernel/ptrace.c          | 26 +++++++++++---------------
> >  mm/init-mm.c             |  2 ++
> >  4 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
> 
> Thanks a huge, Eric! And really sorry for delay in response,
> I managed to miss this quite important mail for me in mail
> storm. Gonna test it and will write you the results. Overall looks
> great, but better be sure and run the tests.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>

Eric, on which kernel the patch is on top of?
It doesn't apply on linux-next for some reason.

 | Date:   Thu Oct 27 14:21:59 2016 +1100
 | 
 |     Add linux-next specific files for 20161027
 |     
 |     Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>

I applied it on Linus' master and tests passed fine
(but they were passing fine even without the patch,
 only linux-next failed).