Richard Weinberger <rich...@nod.at> writes: > Am 21.08.2014 15:12, schrieb Christoph Hellwig: >> On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 09:53:49PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >>> Richard Weinberger <richard.weinber...@gmail.com> writes: >>> >>>> On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 2:57 AM, Eric W. Biederman <ebied...@xmission.com> >>>> 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. > > It looks like commit 87b47932f40a11280584bce260cbdb3b5f9e8b7d in > git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace.git for-next > unbreaks libvirt-lxc. > I hope it hits Linus tree and -stable before the offending commit hits users.
I plan to send the pull request to Linus as soon as I have caught my breath (from all of the conferences this week) that I can be certain I am thinking clearly and not rushing things. Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
