[PATCH] utsns: fix !CONFIG_UTS_NS behavior
authorSerge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Tue, 27 Mar 2007 05:32:22 +0000 (21:32 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:05:15 +0000 (09:05 -0700)
When CONFIG_UTS_NS=n, clone(CLONE_NEWUTS) quietly refuses.  So correctly does
not unshare a new uts namespace, but also does not return -EINVAL.

Fix this to return -EINVAL so the caller knows his request was denied.

Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/utsname.h

index a4555fe..e10267d 100644 (file)
@@ -70,6 +70,8 @@ static inline int unshare_utsname(unsigned long unshare_flags,
 
 static inline int copy_utsname(int flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
+       if (flags & CLONE_NEWUTS)
+               return -EINVAL;
        return 0;
 }
 static inline void put_uts_ns(struct uts_namespace *ns)