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From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
To: serge@hallyn.com
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix /proc/net in presence of net namespaces
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:44:03 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47C7B7C3.4000504@openvz.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080228211720.GA1232@vino.hallyn.com>

>> Nack.  Yet another global set of ids that require us to implement another
>> namespace looks like the wrong way to go.
> 
> Sentiment granted, but I'm not sure it can be an issue.  It *could* be
> in issue if we moved to a more flexible access control here here any
> netns could access the .netns/N directories for all it's child
> namespaces.
> 
> But it can't, and /proc/net is set by the kernel.  So the <id> can't be
> an issue for any checkpoint/restart except htat of the whole system, and
> of course on whole-system resume we have no <id> collision worries.
> 
> So userspace can't do anything with <id>, so there is no reason to worry
> about it becoming another namespace?
> 
> Right?

Right. Thanks, Serge.

> thanks,
> -serge

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-29  7:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-28 15:46 [PATCH 0/2] Fix /proc/net in presence of net namespaces Pavel Emelyanov
2008-02-28 15:49 ` [PATCH 1/2] Add an id to struct net Pavel Emelyanov
2008-02-28 15:51 ` [PATCH 2/2] Make /proc/net a symlink and drop proc shadows Pavel Emelyanov
2008-02-28 19:31 ` [PATCH 0/2] Fix /proc/net in presence of net namespaces Eric W. Biederman
2008-02-28 21:17   ` serge
2008-02-28 22:39     ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-02-29  3:17       ` serge
2008-02-29  8:16         ` Pavel Emelyanov
2008-02-29 15:38           ` serge
2008-02-29  7:58       ` Pavel Emelyanov
2008-03-02  2:03         ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-03-02  2:17         ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-03-03  9:07           ` Pavel Emelyanov
2008-03-04 22:49             ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-03-05  9:43               ` Pavel Emelyanov
2008-02-29  7:44     ` Pavel Emelyanov [this message]
2008-02-29  7:42   ` Pavel Emelyanov
2008-03-02  2:29     ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-03-03  8:52       ` Pavel Emelyanov
2008-03-04 22:23         ` Eric W. Biederman

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