On Thu, 2018-07-19 at 17:42 +0000, Sargun Dhillon wrote: > This adds the ability to pass a non-init user namespace to > rpcauth_create, > via rpc_auth_create_args. If the specific authentication mechanism > does not support non-init user namespaces, then it will return an > error. > > Currently, the only two authentication mechanisms that support > non-init user namespaces are auth_null, and auth_unix. auth_unix > will send the UID / GID from the user namespace for authentication. > Firstly, please at least Cc the linux-nfs mailing list (as per the MAINTAINERS file) when changing NFS and sunrpc code. Secondly, can you please explain why we would want to use any user namespace other than the one specified in the net namespace structure (struct net) when communicating with network resources such as rpc.gssd, the idmapper or, for that matter, the NFS server? Thanks Trond -- Trond Myklebust Linux NFS client maintainer, Hammerspace trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
