From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: LSM <linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>,
James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>,
containers@lists.linux-foundation.org,
kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
xemul@parallels.com, dhowells@redhat.com
Subject: Re: userns: targeted capabilities v5
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:21:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110217162146.1b8e45e0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110217150224.GA26334@mail.hallyn.com>
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:02:24 +0000
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> wrote:
> Here is a repost of my previous user namespace patch, ported onto
> last night's git head.
>
> It fixes several things I was doing wrong in the last (v4)
> posting, in particular:
>
> 1. don't set uts_ns->user_ns to current's when !CLONE_NEWUTS
> 2. add a ipc_ns->user_ns which owns ipc_ns, and use that to
> decide CAP_IPC_OWNER
> 3. fix logic flaw caused by bad parantheses
> 4. allow do_prlimit to current
> 5. don't always give root full privs to init_user_ns
>
> The expected course of development for user namespaces is laid out
> at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserNamespace.
Seems like a nice feature to be developing.
I worry about the maturity of it all at this stage. How far along is
it *really*?
Is anyone else working with you on developing and reviewing this work?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-18 0:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-17 15:02 Serge E. Hallyn
2011-02-17 15:02 ` [PATCH 1/9] Add a user_namespace as creator/owner of uts_namespace Serge E. Hallyn
2011-02-18 3:31 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-02-18 16:57 ` Daniel Lezcano
2011-02-18 23:59 ` Andrew Morton
2011-02-17 15:03 ` [PATCH 2/9] security: Make capabilities relative to the user namespace Serge E. Hallyn
2011-02-18 3:46 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-02-18 23:44 ` Daniel Lezcano
2011-02-18 23:59 ` Andrew Morton
2011-02-17 15:03 ` [PATCH 3/9] allow sethostname in a container Serge E. Hallyn
2011-02-18 3:05 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-02-18 23:46 ` Daniel Lezcano
2011-02-17 15:03 ` [PATCH 4/9] allow killing tasks in your own or child userns Serge E. Hallyn
2011-02-18 3:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-02-18 23:59 ` Andrew Morton
2011-02-24 0:48 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-02-24 0:54 ` Andrew Morton
2011-02-19 10:55 ` Daniel Lezcano
2011-02-17 15:03 ` [PATCH 5/9] Allow ptrace from non-init user namespaces Serge E. Hallyn
2011-02-18 2:59 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-02-18 4:36 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-02-24 0:49 ` [PATCH] userns: ptrace: incorporate feedback from Eric Serge E. Hallyn
2011-02-24 0:56 ` Andrew Morton
2011-02-24 3:15 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-02-18 23:59 ` [PATCH 5/9] Allow ptrace from non-init user namespaces Andrew Morton
2011-02-24 0:43 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-02-19 17:49 ` Daniel Lezcano
2011-02-17 15:03 ` [PATCH 6/9] user namespaces: convert all capable checks in kernel/sys.c Serge E. Hallyn
2011-02-18 1:57 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-02-18 23:59 ` Andrew Morton
2011-02-19 0:01 ` Andrew Morton
2011-02-19 17:52 ` Daniel Lezcano
2011-02-17 15:03 ` [PATCH 7/9] add a user namespace owner of ipc ns Serge E. Hallyn
2011-02-18 3:19 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-02-18 23:59 ` Andrew Morton
2011-02-19 17:57 ` Daniel Lezcano
2011-02-17 15:03 ` [PATCH 8/9] user namespaces: convert several capable() calls Serge E. Hallyn
2011-02-18 1:51 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-02-19 19:07 ` Daniel Lezcano
2011-02-17 15:04 ` [PATCH 9/9] userns: check user namespace for task->file uid equivalence checks Serge E. Hallyn
2011-02-18 1:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-02-18 23:59 ` Andrew Morton
2011-02-24 3:24 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-02-24 5:08 ` Andrew Morton
2011-02-19 19:22 ` Daniel Lezcano
2011-02-18 0:21 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2011-02-18 3:53 ` userns: targeted capabilities v5 Eric W. Biederman
2011-02-18 4:28 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-02-23 11:40 ` [PATCH 2/9] security: Make capabilities relative to the user namespace David Howells
2011-02-23 12:01 ` David Howells
2011-02-23 13:43 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-02-23 12:05 ` User namespaces and keys David Howells
2011-02-23 13:58 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-02-23 14:46 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-02-23 15:06 ` David Howells
2011-02-23 15:45 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-02-23 15:53 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-02-23 19:24 ` Casey Schaufler
2011-02-23 20:55 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-02-23 21:37 ` Casey Schaufler
2011-02-24 6:56 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-02-23 16:59 ` [PATCH 2/9] security: Make capabilities relative to the user namespace David Howells
2011-02-23 17:05 ` [PATCH 5/9] Allow ptrace from non-init user namespaces David Howells
2011-02-23 17:11 ` David Howells
2011-02-23 17:16 ` [PATCH 1/9] Add a user_namespace as creator/owner of uts_namespace David Howells
2011-02-23 21:21 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-02-23 23:19 ` David Howells
2011-02-23 23:54 ` Eric W. Biederman
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