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From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
To: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
	Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	<xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xenbus: Use proc_create_mount_point() to create /proc/xen
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 16:13:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57C5A293.1020305@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160830151044.GB55509@ubuntu-hedt>

On 30/08/16 16:10, Seth Forshee wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 04:00:03PM +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
>> On 29/08/16 16:03, Seth Forshee wrote:
>>> Mounting proc in user namespace containers fails if the xenbus
>>> filesystem is mounted on /proc/xen because this directory fails
>>> the "permanently empty" test. proc_create_mount_point() exists
>>> specifically to create such mountpoints in proc but is currently
>>> proc-internal. Export this interface to modules, then use it in
>>> xenbus when creating /proc/xen.
>>
>> Acked-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
>>
>> This either needs to be acked by the fs maintainer or go via their tree
>> but you don't appear to have Cc'd the relevant people or lists.
> 
> Huh. I use a script which uses get_maintainer.pl to add the relevant
> maintainers and lists, but appaerntly that failed me this time. Even
> running get_maintainer.pl by hand though it doesn't suggest
> linux-fsdevel though, and it seems it should.

I tend not rely on get_maintainer.pl because it isn't very reliable.
>From MAINTAINERS you want:

FILESYSTEMS (VFS and infrastructure)
M:      Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
L:      linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
S:      Maintained
F:      fs/*

David

      reply	other threads:[~2016-08-30 15:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-29 15:03 [PATCH] xenbus: Use proc_create_mount_point() to create /proc/xen Seth Forshee
2016-08-30 14:48 ` Juergen Gross
2016-08-30 15:02   ` Seth Forshee
2016-08-30 15:00 ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2016-08-30 15:10   ` Seth Forshee
2016-08-30 15:13     ` David Vrabel [this message]

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