netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf 2/4] nsfs: add an ioctl to discover the network namespace cookie

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Message-ID: <CACAyw9_P0o36edN9RiimJBQqBupMWwvq746+Mp1_a=YO3ctfgw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 2 Mar 2021 09:47:10 +0000
From:   Lorenz Bauer <lmb@...udflare.com>
To:     Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>
Cc:     Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
        kernel-team <kernel-team@...udflare.com>,
        Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf 2/4] nsfs: add an ioctl to discover the network
 namespace cookie

On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 at 10:04, Christian Brauner
<christian.brauner@...ntu.com> wrote:
>
> Hey Lorenz,
>
> Just to make sure: is it intentional that any user can retrieve the
> cookie associated with any network namespace, i.e. you don't require any
> form of permission checking in the owning user namespace of the network
> namespace?
>
> Christian

Hi Christian,

I've decided to drop the patch set for now, but that was my intention, yes. Is
there a downside I'm not aware of?

Lorenz

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