linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates

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Date:	Thu, 19 Nov 2015 15:49:00 +0100
From:	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
To:	Colin Walters <walters@...bum.org>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
Cc:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@...onical.com>,
	Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@...il.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	linux-bcache@...r.kernel.org,
	device-mapper development <dm-devel@...hat.com>,
	linux-raid@...r.kernel.org, linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	LSM <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
	selinux@...ho.nsa.gov, Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@...onical.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	"Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates

Am 19.11.2015 um 15:37 schrieb Colin Walters:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015, at 02:53 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> 
>> Erm, I don't want this in the kernel. That's why I've proposed the lklfuse approach.
> 
> I already said this before but just to repeat, since I'm confused:
> 
> How would "lklfuse" be different from http://libguestfs.org/
> which we at Red Hat (and a number of other organizations)
> use quite widely now for build systems, debugging etc.

Currently libguestfs has a rather huge overhead because it
boots a full virtual machine and hence a lot of communication
is needed.
With LKL you can use Linux as Library and link it to fuse.
AFAIK Richard added already a LKL backend to libguestfs. :-)

> In the end it's just running the kernel in KVM with a custom protocol,
> with support for non-filesystem things like "install a bootloader",
> and it already supports FUSE.
> 
> I'm pretty firmly with Al here - the attack surface increase here
> is too great, and we'd likely turn this off if it even did make it
> into the kernel.

Agreed. This is why I'm promoting the fuse solution.

Thanks,
//richard
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