Re: [PATCH RESEND] userns: enable tmpfs support for user namespace

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On 2013/01/16 22:35, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting Gao feng (gaofeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx):
>> From: gaofeng <gaofeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Since the memory used by tmpfs is under control of
>> memory cgroup. and the files under the tmpfs will not
>> be leak to other tmpfs.
>>
>> So mounting tmpfs in user namespace does no harm to the
>> host,we can allow tmpfs to be mounted in user namespace.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: gaofeng <gaofeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I've got the same patch in my kernel at
> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=serge/quantal-userns.git;a=summary
> 
> except note that there are two definitions of shmem_fs_type.
> 

Yes, I miss the other one,Do you have plan to push this patch
into linus's linux-2.6 or eric's userns tree?

I'm trying to add userns support for libvirt,so I need tmpfs to
be allowed to mount in userns.

Thanks!

>> ---
>>  mm/shmem.c | 1 +
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
>> index 5dd56f6..8eff60a 100644
>> --- a/mm/shmem.c
>> +++ b/mm/shmem.c
>> @@ -2766,6 +2766,7 @@ static struct file_system_type shmem_fs_type = {
>>  	.name		= "tmpfs",
>>  	.mount		= shmem_mount,
>>  	.kill_sb	= kill_litter_super,
>> +	.fs_flags	= FS_USERNS_MOUNT,
>>  };
>>  
>>  int __init shmem_init(void)
>> -- 
>> 1.7.11.7
>>
> 

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