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From: David Howells <dhowells-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Cc: dhowells-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org,
	Linux Containers
	<containers-qjLDD68F18O7TbgM5vRIOg@public.gmane.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman"
	<ebiederm-aS9lmoZGLiVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] User namespaces: general cleanups
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:10:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5306.1223939456@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081013214108.GA4701-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>

Serge E. Hallyn <serue-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> With the following patch applied to the base next-creds-subsys branch,
> you can track that if you login as root, then do 'su hallyn', where
> hallyn is uid 500, then uid 500 gets allocated twice.  So free is never
> called on it.

Which following patch?

Actually, I've suspected that the user_struct accounting is not quite right for
a while.  Even before I did my creds stuff, I'd occasionally multiple per-UID
keyrings cropping up with the same ID - indicating multiple user_structs for
the same UID.

David

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-13 23:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-10  1:19 [PATCH RFC] User namespaces: general cleanups Serge E. Hallyn
     [not found] ` <20081010011917.GA8046-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-10 10:06   ` David Howells
     [not found]     ` <30854.1223633214-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-10 17:06       ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-10-13 16:01       ` Serge E. Hallyn
     [not found]         ` <20081013214108.GA4701-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-13 23:10           ` David Howells [this message]
     [not found]             ` <5306.1223939456-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-14 14:33               ` Serge E. Hallyn
     [not found]         ` <20081013160144.GA10359-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-13 21:41           ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-10-14 17:50           ` David Howells
     [not found]             ` <29703.1224006618-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-14 21:43               ` Serge E. Hallyn
     [not found]             ` <20081014214327.GA28545-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-14 21:47               ` David Howells
2008-10-10 12:58 ` Keys and namespaces David Howells
     [not found]   ` <414.1223643503-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-10 16:46     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-10-10 22:30     ` Eric W. Biederman
     [not found]       ` <m1hc7k13s2.fsf-B27657KtZYmhTnVgQlOflh2eb7JE58TQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-13 16:27         ` Serge E. Hallyn

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