Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Add further ioctl() operations for namespace discovery | From | "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <> | Date | Wed, 25 Jan 2017 13:39:01 +1300 |
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Hello Eric,
On 01/25/2017 11:41 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> writes: > >> Hi Eric, >> >> Do you have any input for this small patch set? I've still to tweak a >> comment as suggested by Trevor King, but otherwise I'd like to know if >> this is good to go for the next merge window. > > Apologies I have been bogged down with other things. Basically the > code looks fine, and now that I have caught up with things I will be > happy to merge your for the next merge window.
Thanks.
> I do wonder if returning -EOVERFLOW may be more useful than running > the overflow_uid when mapping fails.
Yes, it I think you're right. I'll fix that.
> Also, now that I think about it. Please let's use (uid_t __user *) for > the type of argp. I think that will be more maintainable in the long > run. Easier to grep for etc.
Yes, I'll make that change.
> Neither of these things are big or would prevent me from merging your > change just things that I think would be nice to have.
Both seem worth having to me.
Cheers,
Michael
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