linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] lsm: namespace hooks

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Date:	Tue, 09 Dec 2014 10:13:04 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Lukasz Pawelczyk <l.pawelczyk@...sung.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] lsm: namespace hooks

Lukasz Pawelczyk <l.pawelczyk@...sung.com> writes:

> On czw, 2014-11-27 at 18:38 +0100, Lukasz Pawelczyk wrote:
>> Right now the major issue I see is that LSM by itself is not defined how
>> it's going to behave. It's up to a specific LSM module.
>> 
>> E.g. within the Smack namespace filling the map is a privileged
>> operation. So by tying them up you cripple the ability to create a fully
>> working user namespace as an unprivileged process.
>
> Entertaining the idea that LSM namespace would be tied to user namespace
> (as you suggested) how do you see the limitation I described above?

If they are tied it means you wind up in a situation where there are no
labels you can set.

In general setting the uid and gid maps is also a privileged operations.

I really don't know what makes sense to do with lsms and namespaces
generically, but I do know that your lsm namespace patche were awkwards
and weird and seemed to be taking things in the wrong direction.

Eric
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