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Date:	Sat, 25 Aug 2012 20:18:36 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [REVIEW][PATCH 11/15] userns: Teach trace to use from_kuid

On Sat, 2012-08-25 at 17:04 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> - When tracing capture the kuid.
> - When displaying the data to user space convert the kuid into the
>   user namespace of the process that opened the report file.
> 

> index 5c38c81..c9ace83 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> @@ -2060,7 +2060,8 @@ print_trace_header(struct seq_file *m, struct trace_iterator *iter)
>  	seq_puts(m, "#    -----------------\n");
>  	seq_printf(m, "#    | task: %.16s-%d "
>  		   "(uid:%d nice:%ld policy:%ld rt_prio:%ld)\n",
> -		   data->comm, data->pid, data->uid, data->nice,
> +		   data->comm, data->pid,
> +		   from_kuid_munged(seq_user_ns(m), data->uid), data->nice,

This is a global id. That is, it stored whatever process triggered the
report, not the one reading it. Thus, two different readers could get a
different uid for the same task that triggered the latency?

-- Steve

>  		   data->policy, data->rt_priority);
>  	seq_puts(m, "#    -----------------\n");
>  
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.h b/kernel/trace/trace.h
> index 55e1f7f..40a6f30 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace.h
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.h
> @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ struct trace_array_cpu {
>  	unsigned long		skipped_entries;
>  	cycle_t			preempt_timestamp;
>  	pid_t			pid;
> -	uid_t			uid;
> +	kuid_t			uid;
>  	char			comm[TASK_COMM_LEN];
>  };
>  


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