linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] userns: Creation logic fixes

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Date:	Tue, 11 Aug 2015 23:29:26 -0700
From:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...allels.com>,
	Ricky Zhou <rickyz@...omium.org>,
	Julien Tinnes <jln@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] userns: Creation logic fixes

On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Eric W. Biederman
<ebiederm@...ssion.com> wrote:
>
> So I have take a good hard stare at the problem, as well as sitting down
> and writing some test code to verify the code works the way I think it
> does.
>
> The following two patches are how I think this bit of chaos needs to be
> solved.  If folks could take a once over these patches and possibly test
> them to confirm they fix your issues I would appreciate it.
>
> Eric W. Biederman (2):
>       unshare: Unsharing a thread does not require unsharing a vm
>       userns,pidns: Force thread group sharing, not signal handler sharing.
>
>  kernel/fork.c           | 32 ++++++++++++++++++--------------
>  kernel/user_namespace.c |  4 ++--
>  2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

Thanks for digging into this!

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>

-Kees


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Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security
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