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Fix UTS corruption during clone(CLONE_NEWUTS)
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struct utsname is copied from master one without any exclusion.

Here is sample output from one proggie doing

	sethostname("aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa");
	sethostname("bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb");

and another

	clone(,, CLONE_NEWUTS, ...)
	uname()

	hostname = 'aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabbbbb'
	hostname = 'bbbaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa'
	hostname = 'aaaaaaaabbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb'
	hostname = 'aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabbbb'
	hostname = 'aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabb'
	hostname = 'aaabbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb'
	hostname = 'bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbaaaaaaaaaaaaaa'

Hostname is sometimes corrupted.

Yes, even _the_ simplest namespace activity had bug in it. :-(

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Alexey Dobriyan authored and Linus Torvalds committed Sep 19, 2007
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Expand Up @@ -28,7 +28,9 @@ static struct uts_namespace *clone_uts_ns(struct uts_namespace *old_ns)
if (!ns)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);

down_read(&uts_sem);
memcpy(&ns->name, &old_ns->name, sizeof(ns->name));
up_read(&uts_sem);
kref_init(&ns->kref);
return ns;
}
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