From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
To: Andrei Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
containers@lists.linux-foundation.org,
Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>,
linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
"Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] kernel: add a helper to get an owning user namespace for a namespace
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 21:56:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160831025605.GA21788@mail.hallyn.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1472252891-4963-2-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org>
On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 04:08:08PM -0700, Andrei Vagin wrote:
> +struct ns_common *ns_get_owner(struct ns_common *ns)
> +{
> + struct user_namespace *my_user_ns = current_user_ns();
> + struct user_namespace *owner, *p;
> +
> + /* See if the owner is in the current user namespace */
> + owner = p = ns->ops->get_owner(ns);
> + for (;;) {
> + if (!p)
> + return ERR_PTR(-EPERM);
> + if (p == my_user_ns)
> + break;
> + p = p->parent;
> + }
> +
> + return &get_user_ns(owner)->ns;
get_user_ns() bumps the owner's refcount. I don't see where
this is being dropped, especially when ns_ioctl() uses it in
the next patch.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-31 2:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-26 23:08 [PATCH 0/4 v2] Add an interface to discover relationships between namespaces Andrei Vagin
2016-08-26 23:08 ` [PATCH 1/4] kernel: add a helper to get an owning user namespace for a namespace Andrei Vagin
2016-08-31 2:41 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2016-08-31 21:12 ` Andrey Vagin
2016-08-31 21:59 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2016-08-31 2:56 ` Serge E. Hallyn [this message]
2016-08-31 20:38 ` Andrey Vagin
2016-09-01 5:12 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2016-08-26 23:08 ` [PATCH 2/4] nsfs: add ioctl to get an owning user namespace for ns file descriptor Andrei Vagin
2016-08-26 23:08 ` [PATCH 3/4] nsfs: add ioctl to get a parent namespace Andrei Vagin
2016-08-26 23:08 ` [PATCH 4/4] tools/testing: add a test to check nsfs ioctl-s Andrei Vagin
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-09-06 7:47 [PATCH 0/4 v3] Add an interface to discover relationships between namespaces Andrei Vagin
2016-09-06 7:47 ` [PATCH 1/4] kernel: add a helper to get an owning user namespace for a namespace Andrei Vagin
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