From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754367AbcEWRJ4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 May 2016 13:09:56 -0400 Received: from out02.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.232]:33511 "EHLO out02.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754309AbcEWRJz (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 May 2016 13:09:55 -0400 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Nikolay Borisov Cc: ebiederm@xmission.com, serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com, containers@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1464004808-21214-1-git-send-email-n.borisov.lkml@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 11:58:29 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1464004808-21214-1-git-send-email-n.borisov.lkml@gmail.com> (Nikolay Borisov's message of "Mon, 23 May 2016 15:00:08 +0300") Message-ID: <87k2iksocq.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-XM-AID: U2FsdGVkX18HILx7hGKuzUAVsui7UpIxKEcVXDJC++g= X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 97.119.107.188 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ebiederm@xmission.com X-Spam-Report: * -1.0 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP * 0.7 XMSubLong Long Subject * 0.0 TVD_RCVD_IP Message was received from an IP address * 0.0 T_TM2_M_HEADER_IN_MSG BODY: No description available. * 0.8 BAYES_50 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 40 to 60% * [score: 0.4909] * -0.0 DCC_CHECK_NEGATIVE Not listed in DCC * [sa06 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1] * 0.0 T_TooManySym_01 4+ unique symbols in subject X-Spam-DCC: XMission; sa06 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 X-Spam-Combo: ;Nikolay Borisov X-Spam-Relay-Country: X-Spam-Timing: total 458 ms - load_scoreonly_sql: 0.03 (0.0%), signal_user_changed: 3.6 (0.8%), b_tie_ro: 2.5 (0.6%), parse: 0.86 (0.2%), extract_message_metadata: 2.7 (0.6%), get_uri_detail_list: 0.85 (0.2%), tests_pri_-1000: 3.0 (0.7%), tests_pri_-950: 1.17 (0.3%), tests_pri_-900: 0.97 (0.2%), tests_pri_-400: 20 (4.4%), check_bayes: 19 (4.2%), b_tokenize: 3.5 (0.8%), b_tok_get_all: 6 (1.3%), b_comp_prob: 1.44 (0.3%), b_tok_touch_all: 5 (1.2%), b_finish: 0.68 (0.1%), tests_pri_0: 410 (89.6%), check_dkim_signature: 0.46 (0.1%), check_dkim_adsp: 113 (24.8%), tests_pri_500: 3.9 (0.9%), rewrite_mail: 0.00 (0.0%) Subject: Re: [PATCH] userns: Allow init_user_ns to be used from non-gpl modules X-Spam-Flag: No X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Thu, 05 May 2016 13:38:54 -0600) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on in02.mta.xmission.com) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Nikolay Borisov writes: > This patch changes the export attributes of the init_user_ns from > GPL-only to any modules. This needed so that non-gpl modules, such as > ZFS, utilize functions like i_(uid|gid)_(read|write). It is my belief that linux kernel modules are of necessity derivatives of the linux kernel and as such need to be covered under the GPLv2 or a compatible license. As such I will not accept any patches whose purpose is to facilitate a different understanding of the license of the linux kernel. Eric