Re: [PATCH] Re: [RFC PATCH] namespaces: fix leak on fork() failure

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 01 May 2012 13:35:03 -0700
ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:

> 
> Andrew can you please pick up this patch?

Sure.  I assume it's fixing a post-3.4 regression?  No -stable backport
needed?

> This doesn't explain all of the vsftp weirdness people have been seeing
> but it does fix a real leak on fork failure that vsftp could most
> definitely have triggered.
> 
> Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx> writes:

hm, Mike had some test code.  If that was put in
tools/testing/selftests/nsproxy, this leak wouldn't happen again!
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