From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/28] VFS: Remove (now bogus) check_mnt Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:09:41 +0100 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20041025150941.GA1682@infradead.org> References: <1098715442105@sun.com> <10987154731896@sun.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, raven@themaw.net Return-path: Received: from phoenix.infradead.org ([81.187.226.98]:58380 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261933AbUJYPJl (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:09:41 -0400 To: Mike Waychison Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <10987154731896@sun.com> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 10:44:33AM -0400, Mike Waychison wrote: > check_mnt used to be used to see if a mountpoint was actually grafted or not > to a namespace. This was done because we didn't support mountpoints being > attached to one another if they weren't associated with a namespace. We now > support this, so all check_mnt calls are bogus. The only exception is that > pivot_root still requires all participants to exist within the same > namespace. did you audit the namespace code that it doesn't allow attachign to other namespaces than the current?