Re: [patch] PID namespace design bug, workaround

[Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>]

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Ingo Molnar wrote:

> but this problem is still present in the code, and it has been recently 
> committed into mainline via:
> 
>   commit 30e49c263e36341b60b735cbef5ca37912549264
>   Author: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
>   Date:   Thu Oct 18 23:40:10 2007 -0700
> 
>       pid namespaces: allow cloning of new namespace
> 
> without these problems having been resolved. A full-scale revert is 
> probably too intrusive, but at minimum we need to turn off user-space 
> access to this feature via this simple patch. Until this issue is 
> resolved properly the new PID namespace code needs to be turned off. 
> Letting this into 2.6.24 would be a disaster.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Acked-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>


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