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From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
To: Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>,
	Bastian Blank <bastian@waldi.eu.org>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
	containers@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	LSM <linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] allow killing tasks in your own or child userns
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 04:32:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110111043214.GA24770@mail.hallyn.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D2BDAF4.9040908@cs.columbia.edu>

Quoting Oren Laadan (orenl@cs.columbia.edu):
...
> > If permission is granted based on userids and the capability
> > isn't needed, then we don't want to needlessly set PF_SUPERPRIV.
> 
> A bit off-topic: does this means that c/r needs to save and 
> restore this process flag ?

It should, yeah.  (Until we decide to nuke the flag)

thanks,
-serge

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-11  4:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-10 21:11 userns: targeted capabilities v3 Serge E. Hallyn
2011-01-10 21:13 ` [PATCH 1/7] Add a user_namespace as creator/owner of uts_namespace Serge E. Hallyn
2011-01-10 21:13 ` [PATCH 2/7] security: Make capabilities relative to the user namespace Serge E. Hallyn
2011-01-10 21:13 ` [PATCH 3/7] allow sethostname in a container Serge E. Hallyn
2011-01-10 21:13 ` [PATCH 4/7] allow killing tasks in your own or child userns Serge E. Hallyn
2011-01-10 21:52   ` Bastian Blank
2011-01-10 22:51     ` Serge Hallyn
2011-01-10 23:23       ` Bastian Blank
2011-01-11  1:31         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-01-14 14:50           ` Bastian Blank
2011-01-15  0:31             ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-01-15 11:30               ` Bastian Blank
2011-01-15 14:12                 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-01-11  4:22       ` Oren Laadan
2011-01-11  4:32         ` Serge E. Hallyn [this message]
2011-01-10 21:13 ` [PATCH 5/7] Allow ptrace from non-init user namespaces Serge E. Hallyn
2011-01-10 21:14 ` [PATCH 6/7] user namespaces: convert all capable checks in kernel/sys.c Serge E. Hallyn
2011-01-10 21:59   ` Bastian Blank
2011-01-10 22:56     ` Serge Hallyn
2011-01-11  5:27     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-01-14 15:02       ` Bastian Blank
2011-01-10 21:14 ` [PATCH 7/7] user namespaces: convert several capable() calls Serge E. Hallyn

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