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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Jim Lieb <jlieb@panasas.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	LSM List <linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@canonical.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	bfields@redhat.com, Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Thoughts on credential switching
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 16:41:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <533446A7.6020003@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrUtRzViEYUNev1JNFZMms56uiw47YZezak0Z0PKgFneQA@mail.gmail.com>

On 03/27/2014 02:01 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:

> Essentially, it's a performance problem.  knfsd has override_creds,
> and it can cache struct cred.  But userspace doing the same thing
> (i.e. impersonating a user) has to do setresuid, setresgid, and
> setgroups, which kills performance, since it results in something like
> five RCU callbacks per impersonation round-trip.

Do you mean setfsuid instead of setresuid?

-- 
Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team

  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-27 15:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-27  0:23 Thoughts on credential switching Andy Lutomirski
2014-03-27  0:42 ` Serge Hallyn
2014-03-27  1:01   ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-03-27 15:41     ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2014-03-27 16:21       ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-03-27  2:48 ` Jeff Layton
2014-03-27  3:05   ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-03-27  3:25     ` Jeff Layton
2014-03-27 14:08       ` Jeff Layton
2014-03-29  6:43         ` Alex Elsayed
2014-03-30 13:03         ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-03-30 18:56           ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-03-31 11:51           ` Jeff Layton
2014-03-31 18:06             ` Trond Myklebust
2014-03-31 18:12               ` Jeff Layton
2014-03-31 19:26               ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-03-31 20:14                 ` Trond Myklebust
2014-03-31 21:25                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-03-27 12:46 ` Florian Weimer
2014-03-27 13:02   ` Jeff Layton
2014-03-27 13:06     ` Florian Weimer
2014-03-27 13:33       ` Boaz Harrosh
2014-04-22 11:37         ` Florian Weimer
2014-04-22 12:14           ` Boaz Harrosh
2014-04-22 16:35             ` Jim Lieb
2014-03-27 14:01       ` Jeff Layton
2014-03-27 18:26         ` Jeremy Allison
2014-03-27 18:46           ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-03-27 18:56             ` Jeremy Allison
2014-03-27 19:02               ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-03-27 19:30           ` Jim Lieb
2014-03-27 19:45             ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-03-27 20:47               ` Jim Lieb
2014-03-27 21:19                 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-03-31 10:44 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-03-31 16:49   ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-04-01 20:22     ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-03-31 19:05   ` Jeremy Allison

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