From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] proc: Point /proc/net at /proc/thread-self/net instead of /proc/self/net
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 19:50:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YzXo/DIwq65ypHNH@ZenIV> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wgS_XpzEL140ovgLwGv6yXvV7Pu9nKJbCuo5pnRfcEbvg@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 11:21:36AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 8:22 AM David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com> wrote:
> >
> > This was applied and then reverted by Linus (I can't find anything
> > in the LKML archive) - see git show 155134fef - because of
> > issues with apparmor and dhclient.
>
> lkml archive link:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/CADDKRnDD_W5yJLo2otWXH8oEgmGdMP0N_p7wenBQbh17xKGZJg@mail.gmail.com/
>
> in case anybody cares.
>
> I wonder if the fix is to replace the symlink with a hardcoded lookup
> (ie basically make it *act* like a hardlink - we don't really support
> hardlinked directories, but we could basically fake the lookup in
> proc). Since the problem was AppArmor reacting to the name in the
> symlink.
>
> Al added the participants so that he can say "hell no".
What do you mean? Lookup on "net" in /proc returning what, exactly?
What would that dentry have for ->d_parent?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-29 18:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-29 15:22 [PATCH 3/4] proc: Point /proc/net at /proc/thread-self/net instead of /proc/self/net David Laight
2022-09-29 18:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-09-29 18:50 ` Al Viro [this message]
2022-09-29 19:00 ` Al Viro
2022-09-29 19:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-09-29 19:34 ` Al Viro
2022-09-29 21:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-09-29 21:21 ` Al Viro
2022-09-29 21:27 ` Al Viro
2022-09-29 21:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-09-29 21:15 ` Al Viro
2022-09-29 21:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-09-29 22:14 ` Eric W. Biederman
2022-09-29 22:48 ` [CFT][PATCH] proc: Update /proc/net to point at the accessing threads network namespace Eric W. Biederman
2022-09-29 23:38 ` Al Viro
2022-09-30 3:19 ` kernel test robot
2022-09-30 6:07 ` kernel test robot
2022-09-30 9:30 ` David Laight
2022-09-30 16:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
2022-09-30 21:28 ` David Laight
2022-10-01 23:11 ` Al Viro
2022-10-03 9:36 ` David Laight
2022-10-03 14:03 ` Al Viro
2022-10-03 17:07 ` Eric W. Biederman
2022-10-03 18:49 ` Al Viro
2022-10-04 8:53 ` David Laight
2022-10-05 13:10 ` [proc] 5336f1902b: BUG:KASAN:global-out-of-bounds_in_memchr kernel test robot
2022-09-29 19:00 ` [PATCH 3/4] proc: Point /proc/net at /proc/thread-self/net instead of /proc/self/net Linus Torvalds
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