Re: [CRIU] Introspecting userns relationships to other namespaces?

Eric W. Biederman
2016-07-09T00:04:46Z

James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@Hansenpartnership.com> writes:

> On July 8, 2016 1:38:19 PM PDT, Andrew Vagin <avagin@virtuozzo.com> wrote:

>>What do you think about the idea to mount nsfs and be able to look up
>>any alive namespace by inum:
>
> I think I like it. It will give us a way to enter any extant
> namespace. It will work for Eric's fs namespaces as well. Perhaps a
> /process/ns/<inum> Directory?

*Shivers*

That makes it very easy to bypass any existing controls that exist for
getting at namespaces. It is true that everything of that kind is
directory based but still.

Plus I think it would serve as information leak to information outside
of the container.

An operation to get a user namespace file descriptor from some kernel
object sounds reasonably sane.

A great big list of things sounds about as scary as it can get. This is
not the time to be making it easier to escape from containers.

Eric