Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull NFS client updates for 4.21

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Jan 03 2019 - 15:53:22 EST


On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 10:10 PM Trond Myklebust <trondmy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> The values being compared are in cred_fscmp() are all of type kuid_t or
> kgid_t so that means they have already been mapped from the user
> namespace into the kernel uid/gid space.

Ok, "everything happens in init_ns" is I guess a very valid argument.

It might be good to perhaps show that in the name (and maybe even a
comment), but as long as it's only really used for nfs I guess it
isn't a big deal.

Thanks,

Linus