From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
To: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <richard@nod.at>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@google.com>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] user namespace: usb: make usb urbs user namespace aware (v2)
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:35:09 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1109231431550.2059-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110923172235.GB4065@sergelap>
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> > > > This should be broken up into two separate patches: One to add
> > > > kill_pid_info_as_cred() and the other to modify the usbfs driver.
> > >
> > > It seems like that would make the first patch harder to review (since
> > > it won't just show the changes from kill_pid_info_as_uid to
> > > kill_pid_info_as_cred), but I'll go ahead and split it up. I assume
> > > kill_pid_info_as_uid should be removed in a third patch?
> >
> > No, what I meant was that all the changes to /kernel/signal.c should be
> > in one patch and all the changes to drivers/usb/core/devio.c should be
> > in a second patch.
>
> But doing that in two patches would not be bisect-safe.
Argh, you're right.
It's not a good idea to combine changes to widely differing subsystems
in a single patch, but luckily this is small enough that it doesn't
matter too much. If nobody else minds, I won't complain.
Alan Stern
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-23 18:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-19 21:45 [PATCH] user namespace: make signal.c respect user namespaces Serge E. Hallyn
2011-09-19 21:47 ` [PATCH] user namespace: usb: make usb urbs user namespace aware Serge E. Hallyn
2011-09-20 13:17 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-09-20 13:33 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-09-21 5:01 ` [PATCH] user namespace: usb: make usb urbs user namespace aware (v2) Serge E. Hallyn
2011-09-21 18:31 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-09-21 19:12 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-09-21 19:18 ` Greg KH
2011-09-23 1:27 ` [PATCH resend] " Serge E. Hallyn
2011-09-23 15:48 ` Alan Stern
2011-09-23 16:06 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-09-23 16:21 ` Alan Stern
2011-09-23 17:22 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-09-23 18:35 ` Alan Stern [this message]
2011-09-20 12:22 ` [PATCH] user namespace: make signal.c respect user namespaces Oleg Nesterov
2011-09-20 12:44 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-09-20 13:41 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-09-20 14:39 ` [PATCH 0/2] (Was: user namespace: make signal.c respect user namespaces) Oleg Nesterov
2011-09-20 14:39 ` [PATCH 1/2] creds: kill __task_cred()->task_is_dead() check Oleg Nesterov
2011-09-20 15:14 ` drivers/staging/usbip/ abuses task_is_dead/exit_state Oleg Nesterov
2011-09-20 18:38 ` Greg KH
2012-03-06 17:39 ` ping: " Oleg Nesterov
2012-03-06 19:30 ` Tobias Klauser
2012-03-08 18:57 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-03-13 11:45 ` Tobias Klauser
2012-03-13 18:07 ` [PATCH] staging: usbip: fix the usage of kthread_stop() Oleg Nesterov
2012-04-01 23:17 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-04-02 8:11 ` Tobias Klauser
2011-09-20 15:28 ` [PATCH 1/2] creds: kill __task_cred()->task_is_dead() check Paul E. McKenney
2011-09-20 15:40 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-09-20 15:48 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-09-20 14:39 ` [PATCH 2/2] creds: __task_cred(current) doesn't need rcu_read_lock_held() Oleg Nesterov
2011-09-20 15:07 ` Serge Hallyn
2011-09-20 15:35 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-09-20 16:19 ` David Howells
2011-09-20 16:38 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-09-20 16:50 ` David Howells
2011-09-20 17:13 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-09-20 16:27 ` [PATCH 1/2] creds: kill __task_cred()->task_is_dead() check David Howells
2011-09-20 15:39 ` [PATCH] user namespace: make signal.c respect user namespaces Serge Hallyn
2011-09-20 16:24 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-09-20 16:45 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-09-20 18:17 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-09-21 5:00 ` [PATCH] user namespace: make signal.c respect user namespaces (v2) Serge E. Hallyn
2011-09-20 17:48 ` [PATCH] user namespace: make signal.c respect user namespaces Oleg Nesterov
2011-09-20 18:53 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-09-21 17:53 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-09-22 15:23 ` Serge Hallyn
2011-09-23 16:31 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-09-23 17:36 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-09-23 21:20 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-09-24 16:37 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-09-25 20:17 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-09-26 16:06 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-09-27 14:28 ` Serge Hallyn
2011-09-27 14:38 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-09-27 15:27 ` Serge Hallyn
2011-09-27 17:12 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-10-04 17:42 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-10-09 19:00 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-10-11 13:08 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-10-08 20:02 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-10-09 19:03 ` Oleg Nesterov
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