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    Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace · dd198ce7
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Pull namespace updates from Eric Biederman:
     "Life has been busy and I have not gotten half as much done this round
      as I would have liked. I delayed it so that a minor conflict
      resolution with the mips tree could spend a little time in linux-next
      before I sent this pull request.
    
      This includes two long delayed user namespace changes from Kirill
      Tkhai. It also includes a very useful change from Serge Hallyn that
      allows the security capability attribute to be used inside of user
      namespaces. The practical effect of this is people can now untar
      tarballs and install rpms in user namespaces. It had been suggested to
      generalize this and encode some of the namespace information
      information in the xattr name. Upon close inspection that makes the
      things that should be hard easy and the things that should be easy
      more expensive.
    
      Then there is my bugfix/cleanup for signal injection that removes...
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