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From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, serue@us.ibm.com,
	viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, linuxram@us.ibm.com
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	containers@lists.osdl.org
Subject: [patch 00/10] (resend) mount ownership and unprivileged mount syscall
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:45:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070412164541.580374744@szeredi.hu> (raw)

This patchset adds support for keeping mount ownership information in
the kernel, and allow unprivileged mount(2) and umount(2) in certain
cases.

This can be useful for the following reasons:

- mount(8) can store ownership ("user=XY" option) in the kernel
  instead, or in addition to storing it in /etc/mtab.  For example if
  private namespaces are used with mount propagations /etc/mtab
  becomes unworkable, but using /proc/mounts works fine

- fuse won't need a special suid-root mount/umount utility.  Plain
  umount(8) can easily be made to work with unprivileged fuse mounts

- users can use bind mounts without having to pre-configure them in
  /etc/fstab

Unprivileged mounts are restricted to private namespaces created with
a special clone flag.

Changes from the previous submission:

 - add namespace flag for allowing user mounts
 - add clone flag to set above namespace flag
 - make max number of user mounts default to 1024, since now the
   namespace flag will prevent user mounts by default

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             reply	other threads:[~2007-04-12 16:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-12 16:45 Miklos Szeredi [this message]
2007-04-12 16:45 ` [patch 01/10] add user mounts to the kernel Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-12 16:45 ` [patch 02/10] allow unprivileged umount Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-12 16:45 ` [patch 03/10] account user mounts Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-12 16:45 ` [patch 04/10] add "permit user mounts" flag to namespaces Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-12 16:45 ` [patch 05/10] add "permit user mounts in new namespace" clone flag Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-12 20:32   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-04-13  4:16     ` Herbert Poetzl
2007-04-13  7:09       ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-13  4:45     ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-13  7:12       ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-13 13:47         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-04-13 14:22           ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-16  8:47       ` [Devel] " Ram Pai
2007-04-16  9:32         ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-16  9:49           ` Ram Pai
2007-04-16  9:56             ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-16 15:43               ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-16 15:58                 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-16 19:16                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-16 19:56                     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-04-17  9:04                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-17 11:09                         ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-17 18:16                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-17 18:36                             ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-17 19:54                               ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-18  9:11                                 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-18 13:55                                   ` Trond Myklebust
2007-04-18 14:03                                     ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-18 14:26                                       ` Trond Myklebust
2007-04-18 15:01                                         ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-04-18 19:00                                           ` Trond Myklebust
2007-04-18 15:06                                         ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-18 17:14                                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-18 18:05                                     ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-19  9:02                                       ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-17 14:25                         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-04-17 14:28                         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-04-16 17:14               ` Ram Pai
2007-04-16 17:50                 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-17 17:07                   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-04-17 17:44                     ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-17 18:15                       ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-04-17 18:58                         ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-17 19:28                       ` Ram Pai
2007-04-17 19:43                         ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-17 20:25                           ` Ram Pai
2007-04-18  9:19                             ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-18 18:35                               ` Ram Pai
2007-04-18 19:14                                 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-18 19:41                                   ` Ram Pai
2007-04-19  8:36                                     ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-12 16:45 ` [patch 06/10] propagate error values from clone_mnt Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-12 16:45 ` [patch 07/10] allow unprivileged bind mounts Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-12 16:45 ` [patch 08/10] put declaration of put_filesystem() in fs.h Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-12 16:45 ` [patch 09/10] allow unprivileged mounts Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-12 16:45 ` [patch 10/10] allow unprivileged fuse mounts Miklos Szeredi

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