From: Janak Desai <janak@us.ibm.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
ebiederm@xmission.com,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, hch@lst.de, mtk-manpages@gmx.net,
ak@muc.de, paulus@samba.org, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] for 2.6.16, disable unshare_vm()
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 13:48:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <441C55ED.6080702@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603181007020.3826@g5.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>On Sat, 18 Mar 2006, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
>
>>sys_unshare() does mmput(new_mm). This is not enough
>>if we have mm->core_waiters. This patch is a temporary
>>fix for soon to be released 2.6.16.
>>
>>
>
>Yes. Quick raising of hands: is there anybody out there that expects to
>use unshare(CLONE_VM) right now? One of the reasons it was integrated was
>that I thought glibc wanted it for distros. Is disabling the CLONE_VM
>unsharing going to impact that?
>
> Linus
>
>
>
We are using namespace and filesystem unsharing for our common criteria
certification work and would not be impacted by disabling of vm unsharing.
-Janak
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-18 18:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-16 16:49 [PATCH] unshare: Cleanup up the sys_unshare interface before we are committed Eric W. Biederman
2006-03-16 17:31 ` [PATCH] unshare: Use rcu_assign_pointer when setting sighand Eric W. Biederman
2006-03-17 6:48 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-03-17 17:44 ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-03-17 20:56 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-18 13:12 ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-03-18 15:43 ` Janak Desai
2006-03-18 17:24 ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-03-18 17:41 ` [PATCH] for 2.6.16, disable unshare_vm() Oleg Nesterov
2006-03-18 18:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-18 18:29 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-03-18 18:48 ` Janak Desai [this message]
2016-03-14 13:15 ` unshare(CLONE_VM) Re: [PATCH] unshare: Use rcu_assign_pointer when setting sighand Julian Smith
2016-03-14 18:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-18 13:13 ` [PATCH] implement unshare(CLONE_SIGHAND) for single-thread case Oleg Nesterov
2006-03-18 15:10 ` [PATCH] unshare: Error if passed unsupported flags Eric W. Biederman
2006-03-18 15:33 ` Janak Desai
2006-03-18 16:29 ` [PATCH] unshare: Use rcu_assign_pointer when setting sighand Janak Desai
2006-03-16 19:40 ` [PATCH] unshare: Cleanup up the sys_unshare interface before we are committed Michael Kerrisk
2006-03-16 20:33 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-16 20:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-16 21:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-03-16 22:19 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-16 21:36 ` Janak Desai
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