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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	richard@nod.at, Andrew Morton <akpm@google.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	serge@hallyn.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] user namespace: usb: make usb urbs user namespace aware (v2)
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:31:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110921183101.GB25590@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110921050127.GB6691@sergelap>

On 09/21, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
>
> Add to the dev_state and alloc_async structures the user namespace
> corresponding to the uid and euid.  Pass these to kill_pid_info_as_uid(),
> which can then implement a proper, user-namespace-aware uid check.

Looks correct.



But I have off-topic question. And in fact I am a bit confused,
please help.

First of all, I assume that CLONE_NEWUSER is the only way to change
->user_ns, right?

And, looking at copy_creds() I think that cred->user_ns is always
equal to cred->user->user_ns. However, grep shows a lot of
cred->user->user_ns examples. Why?

> +static int kill_as_cred_perm(const struct cred *cred,
> +			     struct task_struct *target)
> +{
> +	const struct cred *pcred = __task_cred(target);
> +	if (cred->user_ns != pcred->user_ns)
> +		return 0;

Should we really fail if cred->user_ns == pcred->user_ns->creator ?
(or creator of creator, etc).

IOW, shouldn't this match kill_ok_by_cred() path which (at least
cap_capable) checks the ->creator chain when ->user_ns differ?

Oleg.


  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-21 18:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-19 21:45 [PATCH] user namespace: make signal.c respect user namespaces Serge E. Hallyn
2011-09-19 21:47 ` [PATCH] user namespace: usb: make usb urbs user namespace aware Serge E. Hallyn
2011-09-20 13:17   ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-09-20 13:33     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-09-21  5:01     ` [PATCH] user namespace: usb: make usb urbs user namespace aware (v2) Serge E. Hallyn
2011-09-21 18:31       ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2011-09-21 19:12         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-09-21 19:18           ` Greg KH
2011-09-23  1:27             ` [PATCH resend] " Serge E. Hallyn
2011-09-23 15:48               ` Alan Stern
2011-09-23 16:06                 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-09-23 16:21                   ` Alan Stern
2011-09-23 17:22                     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-09-23 18:35                       ` Alan Stern
2011-09-20 12:22 ` [PATCH] user namespace: make signal.c respect user namespaces Oleg Nesterov
2011-09-20 12:44   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-09-20 13:41     ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-09-20 14:39       ` [PATCH 0/2] (Was: user namespace: make signal.c respect user namespaces) Oleg Nesterov
2011-09-20 14:39         ` [PATCH 1/2] creds: kill __task_cred()->task_is_dead() check Oleg Nesterov
2011-09-20 15:14           ` drivers/staging/usbip/ abuses task_is_dead/exit_state Oleg Nesterov
2011-09-20 18:38             ` Greg KH
2012-03-06 17:39               ` ping: " Oleg Nesterov
2012-03-06 19:30                 ` Tobias Klauser
2012-03-08 18:57                   ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-03-13 11:45                     ` Tobias Klauser
2012-03-13 18:07                       ` [PATCH] staging: usbip: fix the usage of kthread_stop() Oleg Nesterov
2012-04-01 23:17                         ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-04-02  8:11                           ` Tobias Klauser
2011-09-20 15:28           ` [PATCH 1/2] creds: kill __task_cred()->task_is_dead() check Paul E. McKenney
2011-09-20 15:40             ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-09-20 15:48               ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-09-20 14:39         ` [PATCH 2/2] creds: __task_cred(current) doesn't need rcu_read_lock_held() Oleg Nesterov
2011-09-20 15:07           ` Serge Hallyn
2011-09-20 15:35             ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-09-20 16:19         ` David Howells
2011-09-20 16:38           ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-09-20 16:50           ` David Howells
2011-09-20 17:13             ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-09-20 16:27         ` [PATCH 1/2] creds: kill __task_cred()->task_is_dead() check David Howells
2011-09-20 15:39   ` [PATCH] user namespace: make signal.c respect user namespaces Serge Hallyn
2011-09-20 16:24     ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-09-20 16:45       ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-09-20 18:17         ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-09-21  5:00   ` [PATCH] user namespace: make signal.c respect user namespaces (v2) Serge E. Hallyn
2011-09-20 17:48 ` [PATCH] user namespace: make signal.c respect user namespaces Oleg Nesterov
2011-09-20 18:53   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-09-21 17:53     ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-09-22 15:23       ` Serge Hallyn
2011-09-23 16:31       ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-09-23 17:36         ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-09-23 21:20           ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-09-24 16:37             ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-09-25 20:17               ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-09-26 16:06                 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-09-27 14:28                   ` Serge Hallyn
2011-09-27 14:38                     ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-09-27 15:27                       ` Serge Hallyn
2011-09-27 17:12                         ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-10-04 17:42                   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-10-09 19:00                     ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-10-11 13:08                       ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-10-08 20:02                   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-10-09 19:03                     ` Oleg Nesterov

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