linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull NFS client updates for 4.21

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Date:   Wed, 2 Jan 2019 16:48:08 -0800
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     "Schumaker, Anna" <Anna.Schumaker@...app.com>
Cc:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org" <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull NFS client updates for 4.21

On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 2:42 PM Schumaker, Anna
<Anna.Schumaker@...app.com> wrote:
>
> We also were unable to track down a maintainer for Neil Brown's changes to
> the generic cred code that are prerequisites to his RPC cred cleanup patches.
> We've been asking around for several months without any response, so
> hopefully it's okay to include those patches in this pull request.

Looks ok to me, although I wonder what the semantics of cred_fscmp()
are across namespaces?

IOW, it seems potentially a bit suspicious to do cred_fscmp() if the
two creds have different namnespaces? Hmm?

Is there some reason that can't happen, or some reason it doesn't matter?

                  Linus