linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v4 03/12] vfs - move mnt_namespace definition to linux/mount.h

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Message-ID: <20150320024738.GU29656@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Fri, 20 Mar 2015 02:47:38 +0000
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net>,
	Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <onestero@...hat.com>,
	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...marydata.com>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
	Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@...hat.com>,
	Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@...marydata.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v4 03/12] vfs - move mnt_namespace definition to
 linux/mount.h

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 08:14:05PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> > Yes please, I'd be more confident if you did this than me, there's
> > already enough to worry about with the series.
> 
> Given that this patchset is a security hole waiting to happen I don't
> see why Al should bother unless there are good reasons to do this
> otherwise.

There might be, actually.  &...->mnt_ns->ns is a lot saner candidate for
a reference in nsproxy than ...->mnt_ns - *that* is the part nsproxy-related
code cares about anyway, and unlike the rest of struct mnt_namespace it
doesn't have to be opaque for everything outside of (small part of) core
VFS.  Additionally, ->mnt_ns is a bad name choice - it sounds like a field
of struct mount and, worse yet, there *is* a field of struct mount with
that name.  Confusing for no good reason and makes both harder to grep for.
And current_mnt_ns() is definitely open-coded too many times - the first
commit in that series makes sense regardless of anything else.
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