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    Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace · a867d734
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Pull userns vfs updates from Eric Biederman:
     "This tree contains some very long awaited work on generalizing the
      user namespace support for mounting filesystems to include filesystems
      with a backing store.  The real world target is fuse but the goal is
      to update the vfs to allow any filesystem to be supported.  This
      patchset is based on a lot of code review and testing to approach that
      goal.
    
      While looking at what is needed to support the fuse filesystem it
      became clear that there were things like xattrs for security modules
      that needed special treatment.  That the resolution of those concerns
      would not be fuse specific.  That sorting out these general issues
      made most sense at the generic level, where the right people could be
      drawn into the conversation, and the issues could be solved for
      everyone.
    
      At a high level what this patchset does a couple of simple things:
    
       - Add a use...
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