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

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David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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.

Will do.  It doesn't look like anyone has any problems with this stuff,
so that should be shortly.

Eric

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