Re: [PATCH RFC] user-namespaced file capabilities - now with even more magic

[Eric W. Biederman]

ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman) writes:

> "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx):
>>> "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>> 
>>> > On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 05:43:09PM +1300, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>> >> "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>> 
>>> >> Any chance of a singed-off-by?
>>> >
>>> > Yes, sorry, StÃphane had pointed out that I'd apparently forgotten to do
>>> > -s.  Do you want me to resend the whole shebang, or does
>>> >
>>> > Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> >
>>> > suffice?  (My previous iterations did have it fwiw so I don't think I could
>>> > legally disavow it now :)
>>> 
>>> I was really hoping to get this in this for 4.10, but I am seeing a couple
>>> of little things in my review.  Comments referring to a non-existent v4
>>> and a few other niggling little things so I am going to target this for
>>> the next kernel release so there is time review.  With a little luck I
>>> can place this patch in my for-next tree just after the merge window
>>> closes and 4.10-rc1 ships.
>>
>> Ok, thanks.  This is not something I'd want to rush :)
>
> Sure.  This is just something we get merged.

By which I meant to say this is something we need to get merged, and
hopefully before all of the developers forget what is going on.  Not
having this is clearly a pain point for people working with file
capabilities.

Eric