Re: [PATCH] namespace: ensure clone_flags are always stored in an unsigned long

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> While working on unshare support for the network namespace I noticed
> we were putting clone flags in an int.  Which is weird because the
> syscall uses unsigned long and we at least need an unsigned to
> properly hold all of the unshare flags. 
> 
> So to make the code consistent, this patch updates the code to use
> unsigned long instead of int for the clone flags in those places
> where we get it wrong today.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]>

we definitely want to do that. I have a similar patch waiting for 
next -mm doing the same.

Acked-by : Cedric Le Goater <[email protected]>

C.
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