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* [PATCH 0/4] Devices accessibility control group (v2)
@ 2008-01-08  9:02 Pavel Emelyanov
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  0 siblings, 1 reply; 28+ messages in thread
From: Pavel Emelyanov @ 2008-01-08  9:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Serge Hallyn, Oren Laadan; +Cc: Linux Containers, Paul Menage

The first version was posted long ago 
(http://openvz.org/pipermail/devel/2007-September/007647.html)
and since then there are many (good I hope) changes:

* Added the block devices support :) It turned out to
  be a bit simpler than the char one (or I missed
  something significant);
* Now we can enable/disable not just individual devices,
  but the whole major with all its minors (see the TODO
  list beyond as well);
* Added the ability to restrict the read/write permissions
  to devices, not just visible/invisible state.

That is - the main features I wished to implement right
after the v1 was sent. Some minor changes are:

* I merged the devices.char and devices.block files into
  one - devices.permissions;
* As the result of the change above - the strings passed
  to this file has changed. Now they are
         [bc] <major>:{<minor>|*} [r-][w-]
  E.g. b 5:2 r- will grant the read permissions to the
  block 5:2 device and c 3:* -w will grant the write-only
  access to all the character devices with the major 5.

However, there are some things to be done:

* Make the /proc/devices show relevant info depending on
  who is reading it. This seems to be easy to do, since
  I already have the support to dump similar info into the
  devices.permissions file, but I haven't tried to use
  this in /proc/devices yet;
* Add the support for devices ranges. I.e. someone might
  wish to tell smth like b 5:[0-10] r- to this subsystem.
  Currently this is not supported and I'm afraid that if we
  start support minor ranges we'll have smth similar to
  VMA-s or FLOCK-s ranges management in one more place in the
  kernel.
* One more question is - are there any other permissions to
  work with? E.g. in OpenVZ we have a separate bit for 
  quota management, maybe we can invent some more...

Currently I didn't pay much attention to split this set well,
so this will most likely won't work with git-bisect, but I 
think this is OK for now. I will sure split it better when I
send the v3 and further.

The set is prepared against the 2.6.24-rc5-mm1.

All this is minimally tested and seems to work. Hope to hear
you comments, wishes and patches soon :)

To play with it - run a standard procedure:

 # mount -t container none /cont/devs -o devices
 # mkdir /cont/devs/0
 # echo -n $$ > /cont/devs/0/tasks

and tune device permissions.

Thanks,
Pavel

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* [PATCH 0/4] Devices accessibility control group (v3, release candidate)
@ 2008-02-07 12:56 Pavel Emelyanov
       [not found] ` <47AAFFF2.9030804-GEFAQzZX7r8dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 28+ messages in thread
From: Pavel Emelyanov @ 2008-02-07 12:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Serge Hallyn, Sukadev Bhattiprolu; +Cc: Linux Containers, Paul Menage

Changes from v2:
* Fixed problems pointed out by Sukadev with permissions
  revoke. Now we have to perform kobject re-lookup on
  each char device open, just like for block ones, so I
  think this is OK.

The /proc/devices tune is still in TODO list, as I have
problems with getting majors _in_a_simple_manner_ from a 
map, that contains a mix of major/minor pairs in 
arbitrary order.

The second version is here:
http://openvz.org/pipermail/devel/2008-January/010160.html
Changes from v1:

* Added the block devices support :) It turned out to
  be a bit simpler than the char one (or I missed
  something significant);
* Now we can enable/disable not just individual devices,
  but the whole major with all its minors (see the TODO
  list beyond as well);
* Added the ability to restrict the read/write permissions
  to devices, not just visible/invisible state.

The first version was here:
http://openvz.org/pipermail/devel/2007-September/007647.html

I still don't pay much attention to split this set well, so 
this will most likely won't work with git-bisect, but I think 
this is OK for now. I will sure split it better when I send 
it to Andrew.

The set is prepared against the 2.6.24-rc8-mm1.

To play with it - run a standard procedure:

 # mount -t container none /cont/devs -o devices
 # mkdir /cont/devs/0
 # echo -n $$ > /cont/devs/0/tasks

and tune device permissions.

Thanks,
Pavel

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2008-01-08  9:12   ` [PATCH 2/4] The character devices layer changes Pavel Emelyanov
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2008-01-14 17:03       ` Serge E. Hallyn
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2008-01-15  8:05           ` Pavel Emelyanov
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2008-01-15 14:54               ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-01-08  9:15   ` [PATCH 3/4] The block " Pavel Emelyanov
2008-01-08  9:18   ` [PATCH 4/4] The control group itself Pavel Emelyanov
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2008-01-14 17:40       ` Serge E. Hallyn
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2008-01-15  7:53           ` Pavel Emelyanov
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2008-01-15 14:44               ` Serge E. Hallyn
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2008-01-15 16:13                   ` Paul Menage
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2008-01-15 17:49                       ` Serge E. Hallyn
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2008-01-15 17:54                           ` Paul Menage
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2008-01-15 18:17                               ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-01-14 21:54       ` Paul Menage
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2008-01-15  7:58           ` Pavel Emelyanov
2008-01-12 21:20   ` [PATCH 0/4] Devices accessibility control group (v2) sukadev-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA
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2008-01-14  7:52       ` Pavel Emelyanov
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2008-01-14 17:42           ` sukadev-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA
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2008-01-15  8:22               ` Pavel Emelyanov
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2008-01-17  6:26                   ` sukadev-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA
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2008-01-21  8:31                       ` Pavel Emelyanov
2008-01-14 21:18   ` Paul Menage
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2008-01-15  8:06       ` Pavel Emelyanov
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2008-02-07 12:59   ` [PATCH 3/4] The block devices layer changes Pavel Emelyanov

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