[PATCH][linux-lts-utopic] Fix regression starting unprivileged lxc containers

Seth Forshee seth.forshee at canonical.com
Thu Aug 20 16:52:29 UTC 2015


== SRU Justification ==

Impact: linux-lts-utopic 3.16.0-46.62 contains a regression which prevents
unprivileged containers from starting due to a failure mounting sysfs.

Fix: Backport of upstream commit 7236c85e1be51a9e25ba0f6e087a66ca89605a49,
which is marked for stable but is missing from 3.16 stable. Another stable
commit that did get into 3.16 requires this patch.

Regression potential: This patch is specifically targeted at unprivileged
mounts of virtual filesystems in containers and fixes a regression there. It
should have no impact on mounts in the host.

Thanks,
Seth

---

Eric W. Biederman (1):
  sysfs: Create mountpoints with sysfs_create_mount_point

 arch/s390/hypfs/inode.c      | 12 ++++--------
 drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c   |  6 ++----
 fs/configfs/mount.c          | 10 ++++------
 fs/debugfs/inode.c           | 11 ++++-------
 fs/fuse/inode.c              |  9 +++------
 fs/pstore/inode.c            | 12 ++++--------
 kernel/cgroup.c              | 10 ++++------
 security/inode.c             | 10 ++++------
 security/selinux/selinuxfs.c | 11 +++++------
 security/smack/smackfs.c     |  8 ++++----
 10 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-)





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