netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next ] net: Allow userns root to control tun and tap devices

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Date:	Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:16:16 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	serge@...lyn.com
Cc:	ebiederm@...ssion.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next ] net: Allow userns root to control tun and
 tap devices

From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:23:31 +0000

> Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@...ssion.com):
>> 
>> Allow an unpriviled user who has created a user namespace, and then
>> created a network namespace to effectively use the new network
>> namespace, by reducing capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN) calls to
>> ns_capable(net->user_ns,CAP_NET_ADMIN) calls.
>> 
>> Allow setting of the tun iff flags.
>> Allow creating of tun devices.
>> Allow adding a new queue to a tun device.
>> 
> 
> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@...onical.com>

Applied.
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