Am 26.11.2014 um 00:15 schrieb Richard Weinberger: > Eric, > > On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Eric W. Biederman > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Richard Weinberger <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> Am 21.08.2014 15:12, schrieb Christoph Hellwig: >>>> On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 09:53:49PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >>>>> Richard Weinberger <[email protected]> writes: >>>>> >>>>>> On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 2:57 AM, Eric W. Biederman >>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> This commit breaks libvirt-lxc. >>>>>> libvirt does in lxcContainerMountBasicFS(): >>>>> >>>>> The bugs fixed are security issues, so if we have to break a small >>>>> number of userspace applications we will. Anything that we can >>>>> reasonably do to avoid regressions will be done. >>>> >>>> Can you explain the security issues in detail? Breaking common >>>> userspace like libvirt-lxc with just a little bit of handwaiving is >>>> entirely unacceptable. >>> >>> It looks like commit 87b47932f40a11280584bce260cbdb3b5f9e8b7d in >>> git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace.git for-next >>> unbreaks libvirt-lxc. >>> I hope it hits Linus tree and -stable before the offending commit hits >>> users. >> >> I plan to send the pull request to Linus as soon as I have caught my >> breath (from all of the conferences this week) that I can be certain I >> am thinking clearly and not rushing things. > > Today I've upgraded my LXC testbed to the most recent kernel and found > libvirt-lxc broken again (sic!). > Remounting /proc/sys/ is failing. > Investigating into the issue showed that commit "mnt: Implicitly add > MNT_NODEV on remount as we do on mount" > is not mainline. > Why did you left out this patch? In my previous mails I explicitly > stated that exactly this commit unbreaks libvirt-lxc. > > Now the userspace breaking changes are mainline and hit users hard. :-(
*kind ping* ...to make sure that this issue doesn't get lost. Thanks, //richard -- 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/
