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

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From: ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 23:37:42 -0700

> 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.
> 
> All of these patches + 2 others trivial userns bug fixes are now
> in my for-next branch at:
> 
> git.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace.git for-next

Ok I finally got around to pushing this into net-next, thanks.
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