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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] namespace updates for v3.17-rc1
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 06:12:57 -0700
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On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 09:53:49PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 2:57 AM, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm-aS9lmoZGLiVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >
> > This commit breaks libvirt-lxc.
> > libvirt does in lxcContainerMountBasicFS():
> 
> The bugs fixed are security issues, so if we have to break a small
> number of userspace applications we will.  Anything that we can
> reasonably do to avoid regressions will be done.

Can you explain the security issues in detail?  Breaking common
userspace like libvirt-lxc with just a little bit of handwaiving is
entirely unacceptable.