linux-kernel - Re: [ABI REVIEW][PATCH 0/8] Namespace file descriptors

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Message-ID: <4C9CAC7C.2080900@free.fr>
Date:	Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:49:48 +0200
From:	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...e.fr>
To:	Andrew Lutomirski <luto@....edu>
CC:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>,
	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [ABI REVIEW][PATCH 0/8] Namespace file descriptors

On 09/24/2010 03:02 PM, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> Introduce file for manipulating namespaces and related syscalls.
>> files:
>> /proc/self/ns/<nstype>
>>
>> syscalls:
>> int setns(unsigned long nstype, int fd);
>> socketat(int nsfd, int family, int type, int protocol);
>>
>
> How does security work?  Are there different kinds of fd that give (say) pin-the-namespace permission, socketat permission, and setns permission?

AFAICS, socketat, setns and "set netns by fd" only accept fd from 
/proc/<pid>/ns/<ns>.

setns does :

	file = proc_ns_fget(fd);
	if (IS_ERR(file))
		return PTR_ERR(file);

proc_ns_fget checks if (file->f_op != &ns_file_operations)


socketat and get_net_ns_by_fd:

	net = get_net_ns_by_fd(fd);

this one calls proc_ns_fget.

We have the guarantee here, the fd is resulting from an open of the file 
with the right permissions.

Another way to pin the namespace, would be to mount --bind 
/proc/<pid>/ns/<ns> but we have to be root to do that ...
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