linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: Implement SO

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Message-ID: <20140416002245.GB5035@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 15 Apr 2014 20:22:45 -0400
From:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
To:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
	Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Simo Sorce <ssorce@...hat.com>, lpoetter@...hat.com,
	kay@...hat.com, dwalsh@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: Implement SO_PEERCGROUP

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 02:54:02PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com> wrote:
> > Implement SO_PEERCGROUP along the lines of SO_PEERCRED. This returns the
> > cgroup of first mounted hierarchy of the task. For the case of client,
> > it represents the cgroup of client at the time of opening the connection.
> > After that client cgroup might change.
> >
> > This works only for unix stream sockets.
> 
> I still don't understand why this is useful when SCM_CGROUP exists.

I think this is more lightweight as compared to SCM_CGROUP. Information
is stored per connection as opposed to per message.

So if user space has created a system where unpriviliged processed have
been locked in cgroups and they can't escape those cgroups, then
SO_PEERCRED should be sufficient and one does not have to use SCM_CGROUP.

Thanks
Vivek
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