Re: [RFC 1/5] user namespaces: Add a user_namespace as creator/owner of uts_namespace

[Eric W. Biederman]

Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:40:11PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> 
>> >> There are also major benefits to have the version of something that is
>> >> never freed never going away, because it means you can just reference it
>> >> in code.  So while I would be happy to say this is special don't use a
>> >> kref and roll the reference counting logic by hand, we aren't
>> >> dynamically allocating init_uts_ns any time soon.
>> >
>> > Why have a reference count at all if it's not needed or used here?
>> 
>> We have to reference count every other uts namespace.
>
> Ok, that makes sense, then also please dynamically create this one, do
> not create a static kref.

Nope.  It's a bad idea.  It messes up the kernel bootstrap if you do
that, and it makes this one structure different from every other
structure init_task uses.

Eric
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