Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 18 Mar 2006 13:48:13 -0500 | From | Janak Desai <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] for 2.6.16, disable unshare_vm() |
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
>On Sat, 18 Mar 2006, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > >>sys_unshare() does mmput(new_mm). This is not enough >>if we have mm->core_waiters. This patch is a temporary >>fix for soon to be released 2.6.16. >> >> > >Yes. Quick raising of hands: is there anybody out there that expects to >use unshare(CLONE_VM) right now? One of the reasons it was integrated was >that I thought glibc wanted it for distros. Is disabling the CLONE_VM >unsharing going to impact that? > > Linus > > > We are using namespace and filesystem unsharing for our common criteria certification work and would not be impacted by disabling of vm unsharing.
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