Re: [PATCH] kdbus: create /sys/fs/kdbus with sysfs_create_mount_point()

From: Josh Boyer
Date: Mon Aug 17 2015 - 16:52:32 EST


On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 1:23 PM, David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 3:21 PM, Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@xxxxx> wrote:
>> Since 0cbee99269 user-namespace pull, if a kdbusfs is mounted on a
>> location that's not created with sysfs_create_mount_point the user
>> namespaces are not allowed to mount their sysfs instances.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@xxxxx>
>> ---
>> Applies on top of char-misc/kdbus a36324913.
>
> This does not apply on top of char-misc/kdbus. The tree lacks the
> necessary commits. But yeah, it's required for 4.2. I'll keep it
> starred until Greg back-merges 4.2.
>
> Anyway, this is still: Reviewed-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx>

Grumble. Keeping track of this is getting to be somewhat of a pain.
Why isn't the kdbus-next branch already at 4.2?

So if one was carrying the contents of char-misc/kdbus as stand-alone
patches on top of 4.2-rc7, should your Reviewed-by count as "yes,
apply this patch in that instance?"

josh
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