Re: [patch 00/10] mount ownership and unprivileged mount syscall (v8)

2008-02-23 Thread Al Viro
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 12:47:59PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: So what should I do? Would Al be wanting to merge this into his VFS tree? (Can't find it on git.kernel.org yet, BTW.) FWIW, it's on hera right now, should propagate to git.kernel.org in a few. Branches I'd pushed there:

Re: [patch 00/10] mount ownership and unprivileged mount syscall (v8)

2008-02-23 Thread Al Viro
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 06:33:13PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: c) just what is limited by that sysctl? AFAICS, rbind is allowed if mountpoint is on user vfsmount and it seems to create vfsmounts without eating into that limit just fine... What's the point of limiting the amount of

Re: [patch 00/10] mount ownership and unprivileged mount syscall (v8)

2008-02-23 Thread Miklos Szeredi
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 06:33:13PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: c) just what is limited by that sysctl? AFAICS, rbind is allowed if mountpoint is on user vfsmount and it seems to create vfsmounts without eating into that limit just fine... What's the point of limiting the amount

Re: [patch 00/10] mount ownership and unprivileged mount syscall (v8)

2008-02-15 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:21:03PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Linus has just merged all the VFS renaming patches, so the decks are clear for looking at this work. However David and Christoph are beavering away on the r-o-bind-mounts patches and I expect that there will be overlaps with

Re: [patch 00/10] mount ownership and unprivileged mount syscall (v8)

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:01:20 -0500 Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:21:03PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Linus has just merged all the VFS renaming patches, so the decks are clear for looking at this work. However David and Christoph are beavering

Re: [patch 00/10] mount ownership and unprivileged mount syscall (v8)

2008-02-15 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 01:09:51AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: However David and Christoph are beavering away on the r-o-bind-mounts patches and I expect that there will be overlaps with unprivileged mounts. Could we coordinate things a bit please? Decide who goes first, review

Re: [patch 00/10] mount ownership and unprivileged mount syscall (v8)

2008-02-14 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:36:16 +0100 Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just documentation updates, compared to the previous submission. Thanks to Serge for the relentless reviews :) Please consider for -mm, and then for 2.6.26. Linus has just merged all the VFS renaming patches, so the