Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:23:55 -0500 "Serge E. Hallyn" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>> run on kernel with CONFIG_USER_NS turned on will oops the
>>> kernel immediately.
>>>
>>> This was spotted during OpenVZ kernel testing.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <[email protected]>
>>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <[email protected]>
>> Good spot. Interesting solution :)
>>
>
> Do we want to fix this in 2.6.23?
This is not a security issue at all. This BUG can be triggered only
by CAP_SYS_ADMIN capable task on the kernel with CONFIG_USER_NS=y,
which is an EXPERIMENTAL depending option.
> If so then at present I'll need to merge
>
> kernel-userc-use-list_for_each_entry-instead-of-list_for_each.patch
> convert-uid-hash-to-hlist.patch
> fix-user-namespace-exiting-oops.patch
>
> which is rather a lot of merging at this stage - surely more than
> is really needed?
>
Thanks,
Pavel
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