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Bug#813616: linux-image-3.16: namespaces: the syscall setns() is too slow

From	Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#813616: linux-image-3.16: namespaces: the syscall setns() is too slow
Date	2016-03-06 22:50 +0100
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On Wed, 03 Feb 2016 19:02:29 +0100 Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> wrote:
> Package: src:linux
> Version: 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u6
> Severity: important
> Tags: patch
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> These upstream patches are missing:
> 3d93116cef30 fs/proc_namespace.c: simplify testing nsp and nsp->mnt_ns
> 728dba3a39c6 namespaces: Use task_lock and not rcu to protect nsproxy
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3d93116cef30

This is trivially correct.

> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=728dba3a39c6
[...]

This looks too high-risk for a stable update.

Ben.

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