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    Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace · f1ef09fd
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Pull namespace updates from Eric Biederman:
     "There is a lot here. A lot of these changes result in subtle user
      visible differences in kernel behavior. I don't expect anything will
      care but I will revert/fix things immediately if any regressions show
      up.
    
      From Seth Forshee there is a continuation of the work to make the vfs
      ready for unpriviled mounts. We had thought the previous changes
      prevented the creation of files outside of s_user_ns of a filesystem,
      but it turns we missed the O_CREAT path. Ooops.
    
      Pavel Tikhomirov and Oleg Nesterov worked together to fix a long
      standing bug in the implemenation of PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER where only
      children that are forked after the prctl are considered and not
      children forked before the prctl. The only known user of this prctl
      systemd forks all children after the prctl. So no userspace
      regressions will occur. Holding earlier forked children to...
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