[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "vfs: Add a mount flag to lock read only bind mounts" has been added to staging queue

[Eric W. Biederman]

Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com> writes:

> This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
>
>     vfs: Add a mount flag to lock read only bind mounts
>
> to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
> which can be found at:
>
>  http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue
>
> If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
> reply to this email.
>
> For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

This is harmless but the commit that makes this necessary is the commit
that allows unprivileged changes to the user namespace in 3.8 Aka:


    commit 0c55cfc4166d9a0f38de779bd4d75a90afbe7734
    Author: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com>
    Date:   Thu Jul 26 21:42:03 2012 -0700
     
        vfs: Allow unprivileged manipulation of the mount namespace.

So I believe this is a useless backport.

Eric