On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 19:00:25 GMT Linux Kernel Mailing List <[email protected]> wrote:
> Gitweb: > http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2b1e300a9dfc3196ccddf6f1d74b91b7af55e416 > Commit: 2b1e300a9dfc3196ccddf6f1d74b91b7af55e416 > Parent: e03ba84adb62fbc6049325a5bc00ef6932fa5e39 > Author: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > AuthorDate: Sun Dec 2 00:33:17 2007 +1100 > Committer: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CommitDate: Sun Dec 2 00:33:17 2007 +1100 > > [NETNS]: Fix /proc/net breakage > > Well I clearly goofed when I added the initial network namespace support > for /proc/net. Currently things work but there are odd details visible to > user space, even when we have a single network namespace. > > Since we do not cache proc_dir_entry dentries at the moment we can just > modify ->lookup to return a different directory inode depending on the > network namespace of the process looking at /proc/net, replacing the > current technique of using a magic and fragile follow_link method. > > To accomplish that this patch: > - introduces a shadow_proc method to allow different dentries to > be returned from proc_lookup. > - Removes the old /proc/net follow_link magic > - Fixes a weakness in our not caching of proc generic dentries. > > As shadow_proc uses a task struct to decided which dentry to return we can > go back later and fix the proc generic caching without modifying any code > that uses the shadow_proc method. This patch caused the binfmt_misc regression reported in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9504 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
