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

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Date:	Thu, 19 Nov 2015 16:04:06 +0100
From:	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
To:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge.hallyn@...ntu.com>
Cc:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	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-raid@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.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>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates

Am 19.11.2015 um 15:21 schrieb Serge E. Hallyn:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 08:53:26AM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> Am 19.11.2015 um 08:47 schrieb James Morris:
>>> On Wed, 18 Nov 2015, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 09:05:12AM -0600, Seth Forshee wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes, the host admin. I'm not talking about trusting the admin inside the
>>>>>> container at all.
>>>>>
>>>>> Then why not have the same host admin just plain mount it when setting the
>>>>> container up and be done with that?  From the host namespace, before spawning
>>>>> the docker instance or whatever framework you are using.  IDGI...
>>>>
>>>> Because hosting companies sell containers as "full virtual machines"
>>>> and customers expect to be able mount stuff like disk images they upload.
>>>
>>> I don't think this is a valid reason for merging functionality into the 
>>> kernel.
>>
>> Erm, I don't want this in the kernel. That's why I've proposed the lklfuse approach.
> 
> That would require the fuse-in-containers functionality, right?

Correct.
Still a less large attack surface. :-)

Thanks,
//richard
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