NAK: user namespace delta for raring?

Serge Hallyn serge.hallyn at canonical.com
Thu Jan 17 14:55:33 UTC 2013


Quoting Tim Gardner (tim.gardner at canonical.com):
> On 01/16/2013 04:21 PM, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >The bulk of Eric's user namespace patches were accepted into 3.8.
> >The remainder are mainly updates to devpts and some kuid fixups for
> >various filesystems.  A raring tree with those patches pushed on
> >top is at
> >
> >http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=serge/quantal-userns.git;a=summary
> >
> >Most of the additional patches come from Eric's tree, though a
> >few are fixups for Ubuntu delta, plus a patch of mine to allow
> >tmpfs mounts in user namespaces.
> >
> >With that kernel, I can run lxc containers in private user
> >namespaces.
> >
> >Would it be possible to carry these patches as an Ubuntu delta
> >in raring?
> >
> >thanks,
> >-serge
> >
> 
> I'm quite reluctant to carry these patches. I think they need a
> bunch of maintainer approvals yet, and definitely some bake time in
> linux-next (if they haven't already). I'd be a lot more willing to
> consider them as cherry-picks or backports from the 3.9 merge. What
> you are proposing appears to have deep and substantive internal
> behavioural changes that will be extremely difficult for anyone on
> my team to debug in the event of error.

That's too bad, but thanks.

(The patches with subject 'userns: Convert <...>' are not deep
substantive changes, but the devpts ones are, and without those
we still wouldn't have enough to use user namespace with ubuntu
system containers.)

-serge




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