linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] userns regression fix for v5.12-rc3

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Message-ID: <m1o8fnc89b.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>
Date:   Sat, 13 Mar 2021 10:45:36 -0600
From:   ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] userns regression fix for v5.12-rc3

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 1:34 PM Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com> wrote:
>>
>> Please pull the for-v5.12-rc3 branch from the git tree.
>>
>> Removing the ambiguity broke userspace so please revert the change:
>> It turns out that there are in fact userspace implementations that
>> care and this recent change caused a regression.
>>
>> https://github.com/containers/buildah/issues/3071
>
> Pulled.
>
> But please cc the kernel mailing list (or something like that) for
> these things, so that you get the pr-tracker-bot reply automatically.
>
> Perhaps you don't care about the pr-tracker-bot that much, but even
> aside from that, I just like the pulls to be cc'd on the lists, if
> only as "documentation".
>
> (Plus since I've gotten used to seeing the pr-tracker-bot
> confirmations, I then get antsy and wondering if something is wrong
> with the bot when it doesn't respond fully when I push things out,
> which is how I noticed this one).

Sorry about that.  I meant to CC lkml but my fingers forgot to include
it this time.

I just knew I had to get this out so we could start unbreaking users.

Eric