Re: [patch] PID namespace design bug, workaround

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Nov 02 2007 - 13:46:19 EST




On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Dave Hansen wrote:
>
> There are certainly more of these, but here is one In the futex
> userspace address, we install the current pid's vnr into a userspace
> address.

Now, realistically, why not just say "you can't use these things across
namespaces"? Does anybody really care? After all, somebody who screws this
up only screws himself, not anybody else.

Linus
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