From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751364Ab3HTS4f (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Aug 2013 14:56:35 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:10432 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750812Ab3HTS4e (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Aug 2013 14:56:34 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 20:50:43 +0200 From: Oleg Nesterov To: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Brad Spengler , "Eric W. Biederman" , Linus Torvalds , Colin Walters , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: PATCH? fix unshare(NEWPID) && vfork() Message-ID: <20130820185043.GA24040@redhat.com> References: <20130819172524.GA22268@redhat.com> <20130819183319.GA24846@redhat.com> <20130819184355.GA25362@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 08/20, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > On 08/19, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > >> > >> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > >> > > >> > So do you think this change is fine or not (ignoring the fact it needs > >> > cleanups) ? > >> > >> I think that removing the CLONE_VM check is fine (although there are > >> some other ones that should probably be removed as well), but I'm not > >> sure if that check needs replacing with something else. > > > > OK, thanks... but I still can't understand. > > > > The patch I sent is equivalent to the new one below. I just tried to > > unify it with another check in do_fork(). > > I was confused. Andy, I do not know how much you were confused, but I bet I am confused much more ;) > Currently (with or without your patch), vfork() followed by > unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER) or unshare(CLONE_NEWPID) will unshare the VM. Could you spell please? We never unshare the VM. CLONE_VM in sys_unshare() paths just means "fail unless ->mm is not shared". Oleg.