Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/6] prepare sysctls for containers

[Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>]

* Dave Hansen (haveblue@us.ibm.com) wrote:
>  	/* If there is no strategy routine, or if the strategy returns
>  	 * zero, proceed with automatic r/w */
> -	if (table->data && table->maxlen) {
> +	data = sysctl_table_data(table);
> +	if (data && table->maxlen) {
>  		if (oldval && oldlenp) {
>  			if (get_user(len, oldlenp))
>  				return -EFAULT;
>  			if (len) {
>  				if (len > table->maxlen)
>  					len = table->maxlen;
> -				if(copy_to_user(oldval, table->data, len))
> +				if(copy_to_user(oldval, data, len))
>  					return -EFAULT;
>  				if(put_user(len, oldlenp))
>  					return -EFAULT;
> @@ -1241,7 +1261,7 @@ int do_sysctl_strategy (ctl_table *table
>  			len = newlen;
>  			if (len > table->maxlen)
>  				len = table->maxlen;
> -			if(copy_from_user(table->data, newval, len))
> +			if(copy_from_user(data, newval, len))
>  				return -EFAULT;

Interesting idea.  One piece that's missing is strategy for controlling
creation the new context (assuming the data_access() will always evaluate
into a context sensitive piece of data).  Otherwise a user can get out
of the limits imposed by sysadmin (since they may have placed themselves
in a context which differs from admin).

thanks,
-chris