Re: [REVIEW][PATCH 0/21] User namespace changes to the networking stack.

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From: ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:07:10 -0700

> 
> This is a modest set of changes against the current networking stack to
> enable basic user namespace support.  Allowing the code to compile with
> user namespaces enabled and removing the assumption that there is only
> the initial user namespace.
> 
> Work to relax the privilege checks in the networking stack from
> "capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)" or "capable(CAP_NET_RAW)" to
> "ns_capable(net->user_ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN)" or 
> "ns_capable(net->user_ns, CAP_NET_RAW)" allowing root in a user
> namespace to control a network namespace will come later.
> 
> David there are just enough interdependencies between the user namespace
> bits that I intend to merge them all through my user namespace tree.
> After the review is complete I will add these patches to my for-next
> branch of my user-namespace.git tree where I do not intend to rebase.
> If it make sense to pull these into net-next to avoid or reduce
> conflicts that should not be a problem.

Looks fine to me, you can add:

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

to all of this stuff.  Let me know when something is stable in your
tree, and I can therefore pull from it into net-next.
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