Re: [PATCH 1/3] user namespaces: introduce user_struct->user_namespace relationship

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:53:41 -0500
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> When a task does clone(CLONE_NEWNS), the task's user is the 'creator' of the
> new user_namespace, and the user_namespace is tacked onto a list of those
> created by this user.
> 
> Changelog:
> 	Aug 25: make free_user not inlined as it's not trivial.  (Eric
> 		Biederman suggestion)
> 	Aug 1: renamed user->user_namespace to user_ns, as the next
> 		patch did anyway.
> 	Aug 1: move put_user_ns call in one free_user() definition
> 		to move it outside the lock in free_user.  put_user_ns
> 		calls free_user on the user_ns->creator, which in
> 		turn would grab the lock again.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/sched.h          |    1 +
>  include/linux/user_namespace.h |    1 +
>  kernel/user.c                  |   11 +++++++++--
>  kernel/user_namespace.c        |   20 +++++++++++---------

The credentials code in linux-next is changing the same code which
you're changing, in more-than-trivially-textual ways.

I'd suggest a dhowells cc on these changes, as he's also working
in this area, and as you touch the keyring code a bit.

And, of course, please remove that almost-always-wrong
extern-declaration-in-C which checkpatch told you about.  init_groups
is already declared in include/linux/init_task.h anyway...