netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Make /proc per net namespace objects belong to container

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Date:	Sun, 14 Aug 2016 21:09:34 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dmitry.torokhov@...il.com
Cc:	ebiederm@...ssion.com, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Make /proc per net namespace objects belong to
 container

From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 14:35:59 -0700

> Currently [almost] all /proc objects belong to the global root, even if
> data belongs to a given namespace within a container and (at least for
> sysctls) we work around permssions checks to allow container's root to
> access the data.
> 
> This series changes ownership of net namespace /proc objects
> (/proc/net/self/* and /proc/sys/net/*) to be container's root and not
> global root when there exists mapping for container's root in user
> namespace.
> 
> This helps when running Android CTS in a container, but I think it makes
> sense regardless.
> 
> Changes from V1:
> 
> - added fix for crash when !CONFIG_NET_NS (new patch #1)
> - addressed Eric'c comments for error handling style in patch #3 and
>   added his Ack
> - adjusted patch #2 to use the same style of erro handling
> - sent out as series instead of separate patches

Series applied to net-next, thanks.