Re: [PATCH] utsns: Restore proper namespace handling.

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On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:19:17 -0600 "Serge E. Hallyn" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Quoting Eric W. Biederman ([email protected]):
> > 
> > When CONFIG_UTS_NS was removed it seems that we also deleted
> > the code for handling sysctls in the other then the initial
> > uts namespace.   This patch restores that code.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]>
> 
> Thanks, Eric.
> 
> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <[email protected]>
> 
> > ---
> >  kernel/utsname_sysctl.c |    2 ++
> >  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/kernel/utsname_sysctl.c b/kernel/utsname_sysctl.c
> > index c76c064..71f58c3 100644
> > --- a/kernel/utsname_sysctl.c
> > +++ b/kernel/utsname_sysctl.c
> > @@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
> >  static void *get_uts(ctl_table *table, int write)
> >  {
> >  	char *which = table->data;
> > +	struct uts_namespace *uts_ns = current->nsproxy->uts_ns;
> > +	which = (which - (char *)&init_uts_ns) + (char *)uts_ns;
> > 
> >  	if (!write)
> >  		down_read(&uts_sem);

I already have a (more codingstylely attractive) version of this from
Pavel, for which I shall steal your ack.

--- a/kernel/utsname_sysctl.c~isolate-the-uts-namespaces-domainname-and-hostname-back
+++ a/kernel/utsname_sysctl.c
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@
 static void *get_uts(ctl_table *table, int write)
 {
 	char *which = table->data;
+	struct uts_namespace *uts_ns;
+
+	uts_ns = current->nsproxy->uts_ns;
+	which = (which - (char *)&init_uts_ns) + (char *)uts_ns;
 
 	if (!write)
 		down_read(&uts_sem);
_


Those pointer tricksies are revolting.  What's going on in there?
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