linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/9] mnt: expose pointer to init_mnt

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Message-ID: <b4mb3kj3v453gduhebg5epbsfvoxcldpj3al7kjxnn64cvgi57@77pqiolvgqgt>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 12:19:11 +0200
From: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, 
	Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>, Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>, 
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>, Mike Yuan <me@...dnzj.com>, 
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	Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@...utronix.de>, Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>, 
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] mnt: expose pointer to init_mnt_ns

On Fri 19-09-25 12:05:16, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 06:28:37PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > On Wed 17-09-25 12:28:01, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > > There's various scenarios where we need to know whether we are in the
> > > initial set of namespaces or not to e.g., shortcut permission checking.
> > > All namespaces expose that information. Let's do that too.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
> 
> I've changed this so it behaves exactly like all the other init
> namespaces. See appended.

Yeah, looks good to me. Feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>

(although I can see you've kept my Reviewed-by in the patch).

								Honza

-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>
SUSE Labs, CR