On Jan 6, 2009, at Jan 6, 2009, 3:02 PM, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting Matt Helsley ([email protected]):
>> We can often specify the UTS namespace to use when starting an RPC  
>> client.
>> However sometimes no UTS namespace is available (specifically  
>> during system
>> shutdown as the last NFS mount in a container is unmounted) so fall
>> back to the initial UTS namespace.
>
> So what happens if we take this patch and do nothing else?

I thought the point of this was to prevent incorrect container  
nodenames from leaking onto the network.

> The only potential problem situation will be rpc requests
> made on behalf of a container in which the last task has
> exited, right?  So let's say a container did an nfs mount
> and then exits, causing an nfs umount request.
>
> That umount request will now be sent with the wrong nodename.
> Does that actually cause problems, will the server use the
> nodename to try and determine the client sending the request?
>
> thanks,
> -serge
>
>> Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <[email protected]>
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Cc: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Chuck Lever <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Linux Containers <[email protected]>
>>
>> ---
>> net/sunrpc/clnt.c |    7 +++++--
>> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> Index: linux-2.6.28/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
>> ===================================================================
>> --- linux-2.6.28.orig/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
>> +++ linux-2.6.28/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
>> @@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ static struct rpc_clnt * rpc_new_client(
>>      struct rpc_version      *version;
>>      struct rpc_clnt         *clnt = NULL;
>>      struct rpc_auth         *auth;
>> +    struct new_utsname      *uts_ns = init_utsname();
>>      int err;
>>      size_t len;
>>
>> @@ -213,10 +214,12 @@ static struct rpc_clnt * rpc_new_client(
>>      }
>>
>>      /* save the nodename */
>> -    clnt->cl_nodelen = strlen(init_utsname()->nodename);
>> +    if (current->nsproxy != NULL)
>> +            uts_ns = utsname();
>> +    clnt->cl_nodelen = strlen(uts_ns->nodename);
>>      if (clnt->cl_nodelen > UNX_MAXNODENAME)
>>              clnt->cl_nodelen = UNX_MAXNODENAME;
>> -    memcpy(clnt->cl_nodename, init_utsname()->nodename, clnt- 
>> >cl_nodelen);
>> +    memcpy(clnt->cl_nodename, uts_ns->nodename, clnt->cl_nodelen);
>>      rpc_register_client(clnt);
>>      return clnt;
>>
>>
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-- 
Chuck Lever
chuck[dot]lever[at]oracle[dot]com




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