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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	containers@lists.linux-foundation.org, oleg@redhat.com,
	richard@nod.at, ebiederm@xmission.com, dhowells@redhat.com,
	eparis@redhat.com, Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] user namespace: make signal.c respect user namespaces (v4)
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 16:22:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111108162216.1ffb3e9a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1320445482-8459-2-git-send-email-serge@hallyn.com>

On Fri,  4 Nov 2011 22:24:37 +0000
Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> wrote:

> +static inline void fixup_uid(struct siginfo *info, struct task_struct *t)
> +{
> +#ifdef CONFIG_USER_NS
> +	if (current_user_ns() == task_cred_xxx(t, user_ns))
> +#endif
> +		return;
> +
> +	if (SI_FROMKERNEL(info))
> +		return;
> +
> +	info->si_uid = user_ns_map_uid(task_cred_xxx(t, user_ns),
> +					current_cred(), info->si_uid);
> +}

err, this function is a no-op if CONFIG_USER_NS=n.  If that was
intentional then why on earth do this in such a weird fashion?  If
unintentional then it makes me wonder how well tested all this was with
CONFIG_USER_NS=n?

I vaguely remember that I've forgotten how all this stuff works.  Some
additional review input would be nice (cough-oleg-cough).


  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-09  0:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-04 22:24 user namespaces: fix some uid/privilege leaks Serge Hallyn
2011-11-04 22:24 ` [PATCH 1/6] user namespace: make signal.c respect user namespaces (v4) Serge Hallyn
2011-11-09  0:22   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2011-11-09 14:18     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-11-10  1:41       ` Matt Helsley
2011-11-10 14:27         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-11-04 22:24 ` [PATCH 2/6] User namespace: don't allow sysctl in non-init user ns (v2) Serge Hallyn
2011-11-04 22:24 ` [PATCH 3/6] user namespace: clamp down users of cap_raised Serge Hallyn
2011-11-06  1:14   ` Andrew G. Morgan
2011-11-04 22:24 ` [PATCH 4/6] Add Documentation/namespaces/user_namespace.txt (v3) Serge Hallyn
2011-11-04 22:24 ` [PATCH 5/6] user namespace: make each net (net_ns) belong to a user_ns Serge Hallyn
2011-11-04 22:24 ` [PATCH 6/6] protect cap_netlink_recv from user namespaces Serge Hallyn
2011-11-07 19:35   ` Eric Paris
2011-11-08  3:29     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-11-09 14:19       ` Eric Paris
2011-11-09 14:44         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-11-19  9:10         ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-11-19 23:25           ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-11-11  4:13 ` user namespaces: fix some uid/privilege leaks Serge E. Hallyn

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