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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [REVIEW][PATCH 11/15] userns: Teach trace to use from_kuid
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 20:18:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1345940316.19381.1.camel@pippen.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wr0mecxz.fsf@xmission.com>

On Sat, 2012-08-25 at 17:04 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> - When tracing capture the kuid.
> - When displaying the data to user space convert the kuid into the
>   user namespace of the process that opened the report file.
> 

> index 5c38c81..c9ace83 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> @@ -2060,7 +2060,8 @@ print_trace_header(struct seq_file *m, struct trace_iterator *iter)
>  	seq_puts(m, "#    -----------------\n");
>  	seq_printf(m, "#    | task: %.16s-%d "
>  		   "(uid:%d nice:%ld policy:%ld rt_prio:%ld)\n",
> -		   data->comm, data->pid, data->uid, data->nice,
> +		   data->comm, data->pid,
> +		   from_kuid_munged(seq_user_ns(m), data->uid), data->nice,

This is a global id. That is, it stored whatever process triggered the
report, not the one reading it. Thus, two different readers could get a
different uid for the same task that triggered the latency?

-- Steve

>  		   data->policy, data->rt_priority);
>  	seq_puts(m, "#    -----------------\n");
>  
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.h b/kernel/trace/trace.h
> index 55e1f7f..40a6f30 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace.h
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.h
> @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ struct trace_array_cpu {
>  	unsigned long		skipped_entries;
>  	cycle_t			preempt_timestamp;
>  	pid_t			pid;
> -	uid_t			uid;
> +	kuid_t			uid;
>  	char			comm[TASK_COMM_LEN];
>  };
>  



  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-26  0:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-25 23:54 [REVIEW][PATCH 0/15] userns subsystem conversions Eric W. Biederman
2012-08-25 23:58 ` [REVIEW][PATCH 01/15] userns: Enable building of pf_key sockets when user namespace support is enabled Eric W. Biederman
2012-08-25 23:59 ` [REVIEW][PATCH 02/15] userns: Make credential debugging user namespace safe Eric W. Biederman
2012-08-25 23:59 ` [REVIEW][PATCH 03/15] userns: Convert security/keys to the new userns infrastructure Eric W. Biederman
2012-08-26  0:00 ` [REVIEW][PATCH 04/15] userns: net: Call key_alloc with GLOBAL_ROOT_UID, GLOBAL_ROOT_GID instead of 0, 0 Eric W. Biederman
2012-08-26  0:00 ` [REVIEW][PATCH 05/15] userns: Convert ipc to use kuid and kgid where appropriate Eric W. Biederman
2012-08-26  0:01 ` [REVIEW][PATCH 07/15] userns: Convert taskstats to handle the user and pid namespaces Eric W. Biederman
2012-08-26  0:02 ` [REVIEW][PATCH 09/15] userns: Convert process event connector to handle kuids and kgids Eric W. Biederman
2012-08-26 12:33   ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2012-08-26 13:43     ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-08-26  0:03 ` [REVIEW][PATCH 10/15] userns: Convert debugfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-05 21:09   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-26  0:04 ` [REVIEW][PATCH 11/15] userns: Teach trace to use from_kuid Eric W. Biederman
2012-08-26  0:18   ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2012-08-26  0:28     ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-08-26  0:05 ` [REVIEW][PATCH 12/15] userns: Convert drm to use kuid and kgid and struct pid where appropriate Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-13  1:31   ` Dave Airlie
2012-09-13  2:14     ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-13  3:29       ` Dave Airlie
2012-08-26  0:07 ` [REVIEW][PATCH 15/15] userns: Convert configfs to use kuid and kgid " Eric W. Biederman
2012-08-26 13:00 ` [PATCH 06/15] userns: Convert audit " Eric W. Biederman
     [not found] ` <9E0E8AAC-9548-4009-AE29-D368244D8EEA@dubeyko.com>
2012-08-26 14:25   ` [REVIEW][PATCH 0/15] userns subsystem conversions Eric W. Biederman
     [not found] ` <87harqecvk.fsf@xmission.com>
2012-08-27  8:50   ` [REVIEW][PATCH 13/15] userns: Add basic quota support Jan Kara
2012-08-27 15:54     ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-08-28  0:12     ` [PATCH] userns: Add basic quota support v2 Eric W. Biederman
2012-08-28  9:05       ` Jan Kara
2012-08-28  9:44         ` Boaz Harrosh
2012-08-28 17:34         ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-08-28 17:36           ` [PATCH] userns: Add basic quota support v3 Eric W. Biederman
2012-08-28 17:51           ` [PATCH] userns: Add basic quota support v2 Jan Kara
2012-08-28 19:09             ` [PATCH] userns: Add basic quota support v4 Eric W. Biederman
2012-08-29  2:10               ` Dave Chinner
2012-08-29  9:31                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-08-31  1:17                   ` Dave Chinner
2012-09-05  5:20                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-20  1:28                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-08-27  8:58   ` [REVIEW][PATCH 13/15] userns: Add basic quota support Steven Whitehouse

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