From: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Cc: "Stéphane Graber" <stgraber@ubuntu.com>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
"Aleksa Sarai" <cyphar@cyphar.com>,
"Jann Horn" <jannh@google.com>,
smbarber@chromium.org,
"Seth Forshee" <seth.forshee@canonical.com>,
"Alexander Viro" <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
"Alexey Dobriyan" <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
"Serge Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
"James Morris" <jmorris@namei.org>,
"Kees Cook" <keescook@chromium.org>,
"Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>,
"Phil Estes" <estesp@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
containers@lists.linux-foundation.org,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/28] user_namespace: introduce fsid mappings
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2020 17:40:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200216164046.3g2nqvyrd6nis5tm@wittgenstein> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pneesf0a.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 04:55:49PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Christian Brauner:
>
> > With fsid mappings we can solve this by writing an id mapping of 0
> > 100000 100000 and an fsid mapping of 0 300000 100000. On filesystem
> > access the kernel will now lookup the mapping for 300000 in the fsid
> > mapping tables of the user namespace. And since such a mapping exists,
> > the corresponding files will have correct ownership.
>
> I'm worried that this is a bit of a management nightmare because the
> data about the mapping does not live within the file system (it's
> externally determined, static, but crucial to the interpretation of
> file system content). I expect that many organizations have
Iiuc, that's already the case with user namespaces right now e.g. when
you have an on-disk mapping that doesn't match your user namespace
mapping.
> centralized allocation of user IDs, but centralized allocation of the
> static mapping does not appear feasible.
I thought we're working on this right now with the new nss
infrastructure to register id mappings aka the shadow discussion we've
been having.
>
> Have you considered a more complex design, where untranslated nested
> user IDs are store in a file attribute (or something like that)? This
That doesn't sound like it would be feasible especially in the nesting
case wrt. to performance.
Christian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-16 16:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-14 18:35 [PATCH v2 00/28] user_namespace: introduce fsid mappings Christian Brauner
2020-02-14 18:35 ` [PATCH v2 01/28] user_namespace: introduce fsid mappings infrastructure Christian Brauner
2020-02-14 18:35 ` [PATCH v2 02/28] proc: add /proc/<pid>/fsuid_map Christian Brauner
2020-02-14 18:35 ` [PATCH v2 03/28] proc: add /proc/<pid>/fsgid_map Christian Brauner
2020-02-14 18:35 ` [PATCH v2 04/28] fsuidgid: add fsid mapping helpers Christian Brauner
2020-02-14 19:11 ` Jann Horn
2020-02-16 16:55 ` Christian Brauner
2020-02-14 18:35 ` [PATCH v2 05/28] proc: task_state(): use from_kfs{g,u}id_munged Christian Brauner
2020-02-14 18:35 ` [PATCH v2 06/28] cred: add kfs{g,u}id Christian Brauner
2020-02-14 18:35 ` [PATCH v2 07/28] sys: __sys_setfsuid(): handle fsid mappings Christian Brauner
2020-02-14 18:35 ` [PATCH v2 08/28] sys: __sys_setfsgid(): " Christian Brauner
2020-02-14 18:35 ` [PATCH v2 09/28] sys:__sys_setuid(): " Christian Brauner
2020-02-14 18:35 ` [PATCH v2 10/28] sys:__sys_setgid(): " Christian Brauner
2020-02-14 18:35 ` [PATCH v2 11/28] sys:__sys_setreuid(): " Christian Brauner
2020-02-14 18:35 ` [PATCH v2 12/28] sys:__sys_setregid(): " Christian Brauner
2020-02-14 18:35 ` [PATCH v2 13/28] sys:__sys_setresuid(): " Christian Brauner
2020-02-14 18:35 ` [PATCH v2 14/28] sys:__sys_setresgid(): " Christian Brauner
2020-02-14 18:35 ` [PATCH v2 15/28] fs: add is_userns_visible() helper Christian Brauner
2020-02-14 18:35 ` [PATCH v2 16/28] namei: may_{o_}create(): handle fsid mappings Christian Brauner
2020-02-14 18:35 ` [PATCH v2 17/28] inode: inode_owner_or_capable(): " Christian Brauner
2020-02-14 18:35 ` [PATCH v2 18/28] capability: privileged_wrt_inode_uidgid(): " Christian Brauner
2020-02-14 18:35 ` [PATCH v2 19/28] stat: " Christian Brauner
2020-02-14 19:03 ` Tycho Andersen
2020-02-16 14:12 ` Christian Brauner
2020-02-14 18:35 ` [PATCH v2 20/28] open: " Christian Brauner
2020-02-14 18:35 ` [PATCH v2 21/28] posix_acl: " Christian Brauner
2020-02-14 18:35 ` [PATCH v2 22/28] attr: notify_change(): " Christian Brauner
2020-02-14 18:35 ` [PATCH v2 23/28] commoncap: cap_bprm_set_creds(): " Christian Brauner
2020-02-14 18:35 ` [PATCH v2 24/28] commoncap: cap_task_fix_setuid(): " Christian Brauner
2020-02-14 18:35 ` [PATCH v2 25/28] commoncap: handle fsid mappings with vfs caps Christian Brauner
2020-02-14 18:35 ` [PATCH v2 26/28] exec: bprm_fill_uid(): handle fsid mappings Christian Brauner
2020-02-14 18:35 ` [PATCH v2 27/28] ptrace: adapt ptrace_may_access() to always uses unmapped fsids Christian Brauner
2020-02-14 18:35 ` [PATCH v2 28/28] devpts: handle fsid mappings Christian Brauner
2020-02-16 15:55 ` [PATCH v2 00/28] user_namespace: introduce " Florian Weimer
2020-02-16 16:40 ` Christian Brauner [this message]
2020-02-17 21:06 ` James Bottomley
2020-02-17 21:20 ` Christian Brauner
2020-02-17 22:35 ` James Bottomley
2020-02-17 23:05 ` Christian Brauner
2020-02-17 21:11 ` James Bottomley
[not found] ` <CA+enf=vwd-dxzve87t7Mw1Z35RZqdLzVaKq=fZ4EGOpnES0f5w@mail.gmail.com>
2020-02-17 22:02 ` Stéphane Graber
2020-02-17 23:03 ` James Bottomley
2020-02-17 23:11 ` Stéphane Graber
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