linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Send quota messages via netlink

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Date:	Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:19:42 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Balbir Singh <balbir@...ibm.com>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>, containers@...ts.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Send quota messages via netlink

On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:06:43 MDT, Eric W. Biederman said:

> So we have to figure out how to do the hard thing which is look at
> who opened our netlink broadcast see if they are in the same user
> namespace as current->user.  Which is a pain and we don't currently
> have the infrastructure for.

Provision also needs to be made for things that are listening to the
netlink broadcasts that don't match the user doing the operation or
the owner of the file - similar to the way auditd wants events.


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