linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm 5/7] add user namespace

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Date:	Sun, 16 Jul 2006 04:08:03 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Kirill Korotaev <dev@...ru>
Cc:	Dave Hansen <haveblue@...ibm.com>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>,
	Cedric Le Goater <clg@...ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Kirill Korotaev <dev@...nvz.org>, Andrey Savochkin <saw@...ru>,
	Herbert Poetzl <herbert@...hfloor.at>,
	Sam Vilain <sam.vilain@...alyst.net.nz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 5/7] add user namespace

Kirill Korotaev <dev@...ru> writes:

>>>-       if (current->fsuid == inode->i_uid)
>>>+       if ((current->fsuid == inode->i_uid) &&
>>>+               (current->nsproxy->user_ns == inode->i_sb->user_ns))
>>>                mode >>= 6;
>> I really don't think assigning a user namespace to a superblock is the
>> right way to go.  Seems to me like the _view_ into the filesystem is
>> what you want to modify.  That would seem to me to mean that each
>> 'struct namespace' (filesystem namespace) or vfsmount would be assigned
>> a corresponding user namespace, *not* the superblock.
> I dislike this way either. We need an ability to have an access to container
> filesystems and data from the host.
> such a strong checks break this.

No this check doesn't.  CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE still works.

Of course enter a running container is a subject for major debate.

Eric

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