linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 1/1] shiftfs: uid/gid shifting bind mount

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Date:   Tue, 7 Feb 2017 17:54:23 -0800
From:   Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
        Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>,
        Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@...il.com>, Chris Mason <clm@...com>,
        Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@...onical.com>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        LSM List <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
        Dongsu Park <dongsu@...ocode.com>,
        David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@...glemail.com>,
        Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...hat.com>,
        Alban Crequy <alban.crequy@...il.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>, Phil Estes <estesp@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/1] shiftfs: uid/gid shifting bind mount

On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 11:49:33AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 11:02:03AM -0800, James Bottomley wrote:
> > >   Another option would be to require something like a project as used 
> > > for project quotas as the root.  This would also be conveniant as it 
> > > could storge the used remapping tables.
> > 
> > So this would be like the current project quota except set on a
> > subtree?  I could see it being done that way but I don't see what
> > advantage it has over using flags in the subtree itself (the mapping is
> > known based on the mount namespace, so there's really only a single bit
> > of information to store).
> 
> projects (which are the underling concept for project quotas) are
> per-subtree in practice - the flag is set on an inode and then
> all directories and files underneath inherit the project ID,
> hardlinking outside a project is prohinited.

I'm interested in having a VFS-level way to do more than just a shift;
I'd like to be able to arbitrarily remap IDs between what's on disk and
the system IDs.  If we're talking about developing a VFS-level solution
for this, I'd like to avoid limiting it to just a shift.  (A shift/range
would definitely be the simplest solution for many common container
cases, but not all.)