Re: [CRED bug?] 2.6.29-rc3 don't survive on stress workload

From: David Howells
Date: Thu Feb 12 2009 - 12:18:44 EST


Serge E. Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 1. put_user_ns() was being called before the uid (which
> was in the init_user_ns) was unhashed

Ah yes... but only if CONFIG_USER_NS=y. Otherwise the unhash was being done
before the release anyway. With this option set, the unhash was being deferred
to a workqueue thread.

Okay, that seems reasonable.

David
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