linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/4] sunrpc: Use utsnamespaces

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Message-Id: <8BC8AF03-457C-4B26-9500-955F91A8A60E@oracle.com>
Date:	Tue, 6 Jan 2009 18:51:55 -0500
From:	Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>
To:	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>
Cc:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>,
	Matt Helsley <matthltc@...ibm.com>,
	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>,
	Cedric Le Goater <clg@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/4] sunrpc: Use utsnamespaces

On Jan 6, 2009, at Jan 6, 2009, 6:35 PM, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 18:32 -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 06:15:34PM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 15:04 -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>>> That implies to me you want to capture the value at mount time,  
>>>> and to
>>>> pass it in to the rpc_call creation, and only at very specific well
>>>> defined points where we interact with user space should we examine
>>>> current->utsname().  At which point there should be no question
>>>> of current->utsname() is valid as the user space process is alive.
>>>
>>> Why pretend that the filesystem is owned by a particular  
>>> namespace? It
>>> can, and will be shared among many containers...
>>
>> If the only purpose of this is to fill in the auth_unix cred then
>> shouldn't it be part of whatever cred structures are passed around?
>
> So how does tracking it in a shared structure like the rpc_client  
> help?
> If you consider it to be part of the cred, then it needs to be tracked
> in the cred...

I think generating a proper AUTH_SYS cred, given the existence of  
containers, is the essential question here.

However, we use nodename for lock owners too... perhaps that deserves  
a separate solution.

--
Chuck Lever
chuck[dot]lever[at]oracle[dot]com
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