Re: [PATCH 1/1] user namespaces: document CFS behavior

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Dec 12 2008 - 06:07:22 EST



* Serge E. Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Quoting James Morris (jmorris@xxxxxxxxx):
> > On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > > > They're already published in my tree. Do you want me to revert them?
> > >
> > > I've also got it published :-/ If it's at the tail of your commits, can
> > > you reset it?
> >
> > There have been commits since, and people are using the tree in any case.
>
> Yikes. Maybe it's best (henceforth) to keep user namespaces patches in
> their own tree toward the end of linux-next? There certainly are
> security implications with all of them, but other things (filesystem,
> sched) will be impacted as well...

i'm fine with having this in James's tree - i didnt realize that you had
another commit that created dependencies.

(if such situations ever cause real damage then we can always create a
separate branch to track it cleanly. That's not needed now.)

Ingo
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