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SubjectRe: [PATCH 11/11] sysfs: user namespaces: fix bug with clone(CLONE_NEWUSER) with fairsched
Benjamin Thery wrote:
> Mark the /sys/kernel/uids directory to be tagged so that processes in
> different user namespaces can remount /sys and see their own uid
> listings.
>
> Without this patch, having CONFIG_FAIR_SCHED=y makes user namespaces
> unusable, because when you
> clone(CLONE_NEWUSER)
> it will auto-create the root userid and try to create
> /sys/kernel/uids/0. Since that already exists from the parent user
> namespace, the create fails, and the clone misleadingly ends up
> returning -ENOMEM.
>
> This patch fixes the issue by allowing each user namespace to remount
> /sys, and having /sys filter the /sys/kernel/uid/ entries by user
> namespace.
>
> Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>

Ditto as patch #10.

Thanks.

--
tejun


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