netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/8] Support unix domain sockets across namespaces

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Message-Id: <20100616.161706.229750834.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:17:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ebiederm@...ssion.com
Cc:	serue@...ibm.com, containers@...ts.osdl.org,
	daniel.lezcano@...e.fr, netdev@...r.kernel.org, xemul@...allels.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Support unix domain sockets across namespaces

From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:15:36 -0700 (PDT)

> From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
> Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 06:25:32 -0700
> 
>> This patchset takes a addressing all of the issues that crop up with
>> unix domain sockets when the senders and receivers are in separate
>> namespaces.
>> 
>> Without this patchset we can report the wrong pid and uid
>> values in our unix domain credentials.
>> 
>> As a finally this patchset removes the now unnecessary restriction
>> that we only allow unix domain sockets between processes in the
>> same network namespace.
> 
> Looks good, all applied to net-next-2.6, thanks Eric.

I had to add a module export of cred_to_ucread to fix the allmodconfig
build since AF_UNIX makes a reference to it.
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