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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Linux Containers <containers@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] userns: automount cleanups
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 23:21:24 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877eu8ibor.fsf@xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c5174597-ab58-9b71-e6e9-6b15d256f22c@themaw.net> (Ian Kent's message of "Thu, 30 Nov 2017 08:11:55 +0800")

Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> writes:

> On 30/11/17 08:01, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> 
>> While reviewing some code I realized that in getting d_automount working
>> with s_user_ns I had left behind some unnecessary relics of the blind
>> path I started down.  Here are two patches that remove those relics.
>> 
>> Unless someone has another preference I will drop them in my userns tree
>> and merge them that way.
>
> I saw the "<etc>->s_user_ns != &init_user_ns" and wondered if that would
> trigger for automount(8) run entirely with a container (eg. docker)?

autofs still needs FS_USERNS_MOUNT before you can reach that point.  But
docker does have a mode ?--userns-remap? where it sets up the containers
mounts that way.

I think in principle that should work and be safe.  I don't know how
robust autofs is against malicious users.  Which is the question to ask
before actually adding FS_USERNS_MOUNT in struct file_system_type.

> Anyway, it's gone now, so ACK to these two, thanks Eric.

Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-30  5:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-30  0:01 [PATCH 0/2] userns: automount cleanups Eric W. Biederman
2017-11-30  0:04 ` [PATCH 1/2] userns: Don't fail follow_automount based on s_user_ns Eric W. Biederman
2017-11-30  0:05 ` [PATCH 2/2] autofs4: Modify autofs_wait to use current_uid() and current_gid() Eric W. Biederman
2017-11-30  0:11 ` [PATCH 0/2] userns: automount cleanups Ian Kent
2017-11-30  5:21   ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2017-11-30  9:11     ` Ian Kent

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