On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 09:37:18PM -0000, Jonathan Calmels wrote:
> Interesting, I tried to reproduce with a Debian strech 4.8.0-2-amd64
> (Debian 4.8.15-2) and 4.9.0-1-amd64 (Debian 4.9.2-2) and didn't hit the
> error.

Odd. The commit responsible for this should be 036d523641c6 "vfs: Don't
create inodes with a uid or gid unknown to the vfs" which did go into
4.8. I'll have to take another look.

> This seems to be specific to tmpfs though, touching the file anywhere
> else yields the nobody:nogroup mapping.

It would happen for any filesystem which was mounted from within the
user namespace.

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  open(2) returns EOVERFLOW within tmpfs+userns

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