Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] fuse: Add support for mounts from pid/user namespaces

Miklos Szeredi
2014-09-23T16:07:38Z

On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com> wrote:
> Here's an updated set of patches for allowing fuse mounts from pid and
> user namespaces. I discussed some of the issues we debated with the last
> patch set (and a few others) with Eric at LinuxCon, and the updates here
> mainly reflect the outcome of those discussions.
>
> The stickiest issue in the v1 patches was the question of where to get
> the user and pid namespaces from that are used for translating ids for
> communication with userspace. Eric told me that for user namespaces at
> least we need to grab a namespace at open or mount time and use only
> that namespace to prevent certain types of attacks.

I'm not convinced. Let us have the gory details, please.

Thanks,
Miklos