From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dmitry Torokhov Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Make /sys/class/net per net namespace objects belong to container Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 09:24:26 -0700 Message-ID: <20160822162426.GA12277@dtor-ws> References: <1471386795-32918-1-git-send-email-dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> <20160821.234139.1856651235617174329.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: tj@kernel.org, ebiederm@xmission.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160821.234139.1856651235617174329.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 11:41:39PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Dmitry Torokhov > Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 15:33:10 -0700 > > > There are objects in /sys hierarchy (/sys/class/net/) that logically belong > > to a namespace/container. Unfortunately all sysfs objects start their life > > belonging to global root, and while we could change ownership manually, > > keeping tracks of all objects that come and go is cumbersome. It would > > be better if kernel created them using correct uid/gid from the beginning. > > > > This series changes kernfs to allow creating object's with arbitrary > > uid/gid, adds get_ownership() callback to ktype structure so subsystems > > could supply their own logic (likely tied to namespace support) for > > determining ownership of kobjects, and adjusts sysfs code to make use of > > this information. Lastly net-sysfs is adjusted to make sure that objects in > > net namespace are owned by the root user from the owning user namespace. > > > > Note that we do not adjust ownership of objects moved into a new namespace > > (as when moving a network device into a container) as userspace can easily > > do it. > > As shown by the kbuild robot, this fails to build when CONFIG_SYSFS > it disabled. Sorry about that, I haven't noticed that all netdev queue stuff is protected by #ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS. I'll move the definition out and resubmit in a few days (maybe Eric and Tejun will have some comments for be by then as well...). Thanks. -- Dmitry