[Devel] Re: [PATCH 4/8] af_unix: Allow SO_PEERCRED to work across namespaces.

[Daniel Lezcano]

On 06/13/2010 03:30 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Use struct pid and struct cred to store the peer credentials on struct
> sock.  This gives enough information to convert the peer credential
> information to a value relative to whatever namespace the socket is in
> at the time.
>
> This removes nasty surprises when using SO_PEERCRED on socket
> connetions where the processes on either side are in different pid and
> user namespaces.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman<ebiederm at xmission.com>
>    

Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano at free.fr>

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