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From: Philip Rhoades <phil@pricom.com.au>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Alexander Mikhalitsyn <alexander.mikhalitsyn@virtuozzo.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>,
	Daniel Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>,
	Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>,
	Linux Containers <containers@lists.linux.dev>,
	Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>,
	Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>,
	Varad Gautam <varad.gautam@suse.com>,
	Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/4] ipc: Remove extra1 field abuse to pass ipc namespace
Date: Wed, 04 May 2022 13:42:03 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <94d3de676845342fa8abe0c90ee3c98f@pricom.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=whi2SzU4XT_FsdTCAuK2qtYmH+-hwi1cbSdG8zu0KXL=g@mail.gmail.com>

People,


On 2022-04-23 06:44, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 5:53 AM Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org> 
> wrote:
>> 
>> Yes, Linus, these changes are not the refactoring you were talking
>> about, but I plan to try to do such a refactoring in the my next
>> patchset.
> 
> Heh. Ok, I'm not saying these patches are pretty, and looking up the
> namespace thing is a bit subtle, but it's certainly prettier than the
> existing odd "create a new ctl_table entry because of field abuse".
> 
> So this certainly looks like an improvement from a quick look.
> 
>               Linus


Thanks for that little glimpse into what happens with kernel development 
- interesting!

Phil.
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Philip Rhoades

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-05-04  3:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-14 18:18 [PATCH v4 0/2] ipc: Store mq and ipc sysctls in the ipc namespace Alexey Gladkov
2022-02-14 18:18 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] ipc: Store mqueue " Alexey Gladkov
2022-02-14 18:18 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] ipc: Store ipc " Alexey Gladkov
2022-03-23 20:24 ` [GIT PULL] ipc: Bind to the ipc namespace at open time Eric W. Biederman
2022-03-24 18:12   ` Linus Torvalds
2022-03-24 21:48     ` Eric W. Biederman
2022-03-24 22:16       ` Linus Torvalds
2022-03-25 12:10     ` Alexey Gladkov
2022-04-22 12:53     ` [PATCH v1 0/4] ipc: Remove extra1 field abuse to pass ipc namespace Alexey Gladkov
2022-04-22 12:53       ` [PATCH v1 1/4] " Alexey Gladkov
2022-05-02 16:07         ` Eric W. Biederman
2022-04-22 12:53       ` [PATCH v1 2/4] ipc: Use proper " Alexey Gladkov
2022-05-02 16:09         ` Eric W. Biederman
2022-05-03 13:39           ` Alexey Gladkov
2022-05-03 13:39             ` [PATCH v2 1/4] ipc: Use the same namespace to modify and validate Alexey Gladkov
2022-05-03 13:39             ` [PATCH v2 2/4] ipc: Remove extra1 field abuse to pass ipc namespace Alexey Gladkov
2022-05-03 13:39             ` [PATCH v2 3/4] ipc: Check permissions for checkpoint_restart sysctls at open time Alexey Gladkov
2022-05-03 13:39             ` [PATCH v2 4/4] ipc: Remove extra braces Alexey Gladkov
2022-04-22 12:53       ` [PATCH v1 3/4] ipc: Check permissions for checkpoint_restart sysctls at open time Alexey Gladkov
2022-04-22 12:53       ` [PATCH v1 4/4] ipc: Remove extra braces Alexey Gladkov
2022-04-22 20:44       ` [PATCH v1 0/4] ipc: Remove extra1 field abuse to pass ipc namespace Linus Torvalds
2022-05-04  3:42         ` Philip Rhoades [this message]
2022-06-01 13:20         ` [RFC PATCH 0/4] API extension for handling sysctl Alexey Gladkov
2022-06-01 13:20           ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] sysctl: " Alexey Gladkov
2022-06-01 19:19             ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-06-01 19:23               ` Linus Torvalds
2022-06-01 19:25                 ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-06-01 19:31                   ` Linus Torvalds
2022-06-01 19:32               ` Alexey Gladkov
2022-06-01 13:20           ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] sysctl: ipc: Do not use dynamic memory Alexey Gladkov
2022-06-01 16:45             ` Linus Torvalds
2022-06-01 18:24               ` Alexey Gladkov
2022-06-01 18:34                 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-06-01 19:05                   ` Alexey Gladkov
2022-06-09 18:51                   ` Luis Chamberlain
2022-06-01 13:20           ` [RFC PATCH 3/4] sysctl: userns: " Alexey Gladkov
2022-06-01 13:20           ` [RFC PATCH 4/4] sysctl: mqueue: " Alexey Gladkov
2022-06-09 16:45           ` [RFC PATCH 0/4] API extension for handling sysctl Luis Chamberlain

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