linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] userns: automount cleanups

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Date:   Thu, 30 Nov 2017 08:11:55 +0800
From:   Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net>
To:     "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Linux Containers <containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...hat.com>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@...onical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] userns: automount cleanups

On 30/11/17 08:01, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> While reviewing some code I realized that in getting d_automount working
> with s_user_ns I had left behind some unnecessary relics of the blind
> path I started down.  Here are two patches that remove those relics.
> 
> Unless someone has another preference I will drop them in my userns tree
> and merge them that way.

I saw the "<etc>->s_user_ns != &init_user_ns" and wondered if that would
trigger for automount(8) run entirely with a container (eg. docker)?

Anyway, it's gone now, so ACK to these two, thanks Eric.

> 
> Eric W. Biederman (2):
>       userns: Don't fail follow_automount based on s_user_ns
>       autofs4: Modify autofs_wait to use current_uid() and current_gid()
> 
>  fs/autofs4/waitq.c | 4 ++--
>  fs/namei.c         | 3 ---
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
>