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From: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
To: serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
	containers@lists.linux-foundation.org, ebiederm@xmission.com,
	morgan@kernel.org, luto@amacapital.net, keescook@chromium.org,
	jmorris@namei.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] simplified security.nscapability xattr
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 14:46:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160426194657.GA27639@ubuntu-hedt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1461345993-17526-2-git-send-email-serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>

On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 12:26:33PM -0500, serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com wrote:
> From: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
> 
> This can only be set by root in his own namespace, and will
> only be respected by namespaces with that same root kuid
> mapped as root, or namespaces descended from it.
> 
> This allows a simple setxattr to work, allows tar/untar to
> work, and allows us to tar in one namespace and untar in
> another while preserving the capability, without risking
> leaking privilege into a parent namespace.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>

Seems like the simplest possible design which meets the requirements.

Acked-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-26 19:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-22 17:26 namespaced file capabilities serge.hallyn
2016-04-22 17:26 ` [PATCH 1/1] simplified security.nscapability xattr serge.hallyn
2016-04-26 19:46   ` Seth Forshee [this message]
2016-04-26 21:59   ` Kees Cook
2016-04-26 22:26     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2016-04-26 22:39       ` Kees Cook
2016-04-27  4:39         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2016-04-27  8:09         ` Jann Horn
2016-05-02  3:54         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2016-05-02 18:31           ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2016-05-02 21:31           ` Eric W. Biederman
     [not found]             ` <CALQRfL7mfpyudWs4Z8W5Zi8CTG-9O0OvrCnRU7pk0MXtsLBd0A@mail.gmail.com>
2016-05-03  4:50               ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-05-10 19:00                 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2016-05-03  5:19               ` Serge E. Hallyn
2016-05-03  5:54                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-05-03 14:25                   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2016-05-10 19:03                     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2016-05-07 23:10                   ` Jann Horn
2016-05-11 21:02                     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2016-05-16 21:15                       ` Serge E. Hallyn
2016-05-16 21:48                         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2016-05-18 21:57                           ` [PATCH RFC] user-namespaced file capabilities - now with more magic Serge E. Hallyn
2016-05-19 20:53                             ` Mimi Zohar
2016-05-20  3:40                               ` Serge E. Hallyn
2016-05-20 11:19                                 ` Mimi Zohar
2016-05-20 18:28                                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-05-20 19:09                                     ` Mimi Zohar
2016-05-20 19:11                                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-05-20 19:26                                     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2016-05-20 19:42                                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-05-20 19:59                                         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2016-05-20 23:23                                           ` Mimi Zohar
2016-05-20 23:32                                             ` Serge E. Hallyn

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