linux-kernel - Re: [CFT] Can I get some Tested-By's on this series?

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Date:	Mon, 15 Dec 2014 19:38:38 +0000
From:	Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@...ntu.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	Stéphane Graber <stgraber@...ntu.com>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
	Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@...ntu.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	linux-man <linux-man@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
	stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kenton Varda <kenton@...dstorm.io>,
	LSM <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
	Michael Kerrisk-manpages <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
	Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [CFT] Can I get some Tested-By's on this series?

Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@...ssion.com):
> Stéphane Graber <stgraber@...ntu.com> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 03:38:18PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >> Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@...ntu.com> writes:
> >> 
> >> > Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@...ssion.com):
> >> >> 
> >> >> Will people please test these patches with their container project?
> >> >> 
> >> >> These changes break container userspace (hopefully in a minimal way) if
> >> >> I could have that confirmed by testing I would really appreciate it.  I
> >> >> really don't want to send out a bug fix that accidentally breaks
> >> >> userspace again.
> >> >> 
> >> >> The only issue sort of under discussion is if there is a better name for
> >> >> /proc/<pid>/setgroups, and the name of the file will not affect the
> >> >> functionality of the patchset.
> >> >> 
> >> >> With the code reviewed and written in simple obviously correct, easily
> >> >> reviewable ways I am hoping/planning to send this to Linus ASAP.
> >> >> 
> >> >> Eric
> >> >
> >> > Is there a git tree we can clone?
> >> 
> >> Have either of you been able to check to see if any of my changes
> >> affects lxc?
> >> 
> >> I am trying to gauge how hard and how fast I should push to Linus.  lxc
> >> being the largest adopter of unprivileged user namespaces for general
> >> purpose containers.
> >> 
> >> I expect you just call newuidmap and newgidmap and don't actually care
> >> about not being able to set gid_map without privilege.  But I really
> >> want to avoid pushing a security fix and then being surprised that
> >> things like lxc break.
> >> 
> >> Eric
> >
> > Hi Eric,
> >
> > I've unfortunately been pretty busy this week as I was (well, still am)
> > travelling to South Africa for a meeting. I don't have a full kernel
> > tree around here and a full git clone isn't really doable over the kind
> > of Internet I've got here :)
> >
> > Hopefully Serge can give it a quick try, otherwise I should be able to
> > do some tests on Tuesday when I'm back home.
> 
> I thought Serge was going to but I haven't heard yet so I am prodding ;-)

Ok, thanks - yes, unprivileged lxc is working fine with your kernels.
Just to be sure I was testing the right thing I also tested using
my unprivileged nsexec testcases, and they failed on setgroup/setgid
as now expected, and succeeded there without your patches.

thanks,
-serge
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