Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebied...@xmission.com):
> "Serge E. Hallyn" <se...@us.ibm.com> writes:
>
> > Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebied...@xmission.com):
> >>
> >> I have take an snapshot of my development tree and placed it at.
> >>
> >>
> >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/people/ebiederm/linux-2.6.33-nsfd-v5.git
> >>
> >>
> >> >> I am going to explore a bit more. Given that nsfd is using the same
> >> >> permission checks as a proc file, I think I can just make it a proc
> >> >> file. Something like "/proc/<pid>/ns/net". With a little luck that
> >> >> won't suck too badly.
> >> >>
> >> > Ah ! yes. Good idea.
> >>
> >> It is a hair more code to use proc files but nothing worth counting.
> >>
> >> Probably the biggest thing I am aware of right now in my development
> >> tree is in getting uids to pass properly between unix domain sockets
> >> I would up writing this cred_to_ucred function.
> >>
> >> Serge can you take a look and check my logic, and do you have
> >> any idea of where we should place something like pid_vnr but
> >> for the uid namespace?
> >
> > Well my first thought was user_namespace, but I'm thinking kernel/cred.c is
> > the best place for it.
>
> Thanks.
>
> >> void cred_to_ucred(struct pid *pid, const struct cred *cred,
> >> struct ucred *ucred)
> >> {
> >> ucred->pid = pid_vnr(pid);
> >> ucred->uid = ucred->gid = -1;
> >> if (cred) {
> >> struct user_namespace *cred_ns = cred->user->user_ns;
> >> struct user_namespace *current_ns = current_user_ns();
> >> struct user_namespace *tmp;
> >>
> >> if (likely(cred_ns == current_ns)) {
> >> ucred->uid = cred->euid;
> >> ucred->gid = cred->egid;
> >> } else {
> >> /* Is cred in a child user namespace */
> >> tmp = cred_ns;
> >> do {
> >> tmp = tmp->creator->user_ns;
> >> if (tmp == current_ns) {
> >
> > Hmm, I think you want to catch one level up - so the creator itself
> > is in current_user_ns, so
>
> >
> > do {
> > if (tmp->creator->user_ns == current_ns) {
> > ucred->uid = tmp->creator->uid;
> > ucred->gid = tmp->creator_gid;
> > return;
> > }
> > tmp = tmp->creator->user_ns;
> > } while (tmp != &init_user_ns);
>
> Good catch.
>
> >> ucred->uid = tmp->creator->uid;
> >> ucred->gid = overflowgid;
> >
> > should we start recording a user_ns->creator_gid
> > instead?
>
> I had a similar question. Possibly we can just grab the creators cred.
Oh, yeah, make user_ns->creator a cred, excellent idea - then we have
the LSM and capability fields cached as well.
-serge
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