[Devel] Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fix user namespace exiting OOPs

[Pavel Emelyanov]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:23:55 -0500 "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
>>> run on kernel with CONFIG_USER_NS turned on will oops the
>>> kernel immediately.
>>>
>>> This was spotted during OpenVZ kernel testing.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul at openvz.org>
>>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan at openvz.org>
>> Good spot.  Interesting solution :)
>>
> 
> Do we want to fix this in 2.6.23?

This is not a security issue at all. This BUG can be triggered only
by CAP_SYS_ADMIN capable task on the kernel with CONFIG_USER_NS=y,
which is an EXPERIMENTAL depending option.

> If so then at present I'll need to merge 
> 
> kernel-userc-use-list_for_each_entry-instead-of-list_for_each.patch
> convert-uid-hash-to-hlist.patch
> fix-user-namespace-exiting-oops.patch
> 
> which is rather a lot of merging at this stage - surely more than
> is really needed?
> 

Thanks,
Pavel