Quoting Seth Forshee ([email protected]):
> On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 11:27:38AM -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 09:40:09AM -0600, Seth Forshee wrote:
> > > Add checks to inode_change_ok to verify that uid and gid changes
> > > will map into the superblock's user namespace. If they do not
> > > fail with -EOVERFLOW. This cannot be overriden with ATTR_FORCE.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <[email protected]>
> > 
> > Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <[email protected]>
> > 
> > ...  although i could see root on the host being upset that it can't
> > assign a uid not valid in the mounter's ns.  But it does seem safer.
> 
> That change wouldn't be representable in the backing store though, and
> that could lead to unexpected behaviour. It's better to tell root that
> we can't make the requested change, in my opinion.

Makes sense.  Thanks.
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