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SubjectRe: user namespace: make signal.c respect user namespaces (v5)
Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com):
> "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> writes:
>
> > Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com):
> >> There is a small bug here. You want to fixup q->info, not info.
> >> Otherwise you might try dereferencing one of the special signals and get
> >> a NULL pointer dereference.
> >
> > Thanks, Eric. Oddly I've not seen this happen in quite a bit of
> > testing with the kernel, but you certainly must be right. I sent
> > out a new patch to fix that.
>
> You clearly have a different test case than I do.

I ran a good chunk of ltp... and it passed. I can't explain it.

> I managed to trigger the oops within about 5 minutes of just fooling
> around.
>
> You want to say &q->info not q->info in your updated patch.

Oh, yes, thanks. Sorry, I shouldn't have sent that one as I wasn't able
to compile and test until tonight.

-serge


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