Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Support unix domain sockets across namespaces

From: [email-masked] (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:32:59 -0700

David Miller <[email-masked]> writes:

> From: David Miller <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:15:36 -0700 (PDT)
>
>> From: [email-masked] (Eric W. Biederman)
>> Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 06:25:32 -0700
>> 
>>> This patchset takes a addressing all of the issues that crop up with
>>> unix domain sockets when the senders and receivers are in separate
>>> namespaces.
>>> 
>>> Without this patchset we can report the wrong pid and uid
>>> values in our unix domain credentials.
>>> 
>>> As a finally this patchset removes the now unnecessary restriction
>>> that we only allow unix domain sockets between processes in the
>>> same network namespace.
>> 
>> Looks good, all applied to net-next-2.6, thanks Eric.
>
> I had to add a module export of cred_to_ucread to fix the allmodconfig
> build since AF_UNIX makes a reference to it.

Doh!  Thank you for catching that.

My apologies for overlooking the allmodconfig case.

Eric