linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 09/25] fs: add is_userns

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Message-ID: <20200219120604.vqudwaeppebvisco@wittgenstein>
Date:   Wed, 19 Feb 2020 13:06:04 +0100
From:   Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>
To:     "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>
Cc:     Stéphane Graber <stgraber@...ntu.com>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@...har.com>, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        smbarber@...omium.org, Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@...onical.com>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
        James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Phil Estes <estesp@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 09/25] fs: add is_userns_visible() helper

On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 08:42:33PM -0600, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 03:33:55PM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > Introduce a helper which makes it possible to detect fileystems whose
> > superblock is visible in multiple user namespace. This currently only
> > means proc and sys. Such filesystems usually have special semantics so their
> > behavior will not be changed with the introduction of fsid mappings.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm afraid I've got a bit of a hangup about the terminology here.  I
> *think* what you mean is that SB_I_USERNS_VISIBLE is an fs whose uids are
> always translated per the id mappings, not fsid mappings.  But when I see

Correct!

> the name it seems to imply that !SB_I_USERNS_VISIBLE filesystems can't
> be seen by other namespaces at all.
> 
> Am I right in my first interpretation?  If so, can we talk about the
> naming?

Yep, your first interpretation is right. What about: wants_idmaps()