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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: [PATCH 9/9] userns: check user namespace for task->file uid equivalence checks
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:59:35 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110218155935.66e7782d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110217150406.GI26395@mail.hallyn.com>

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:04:07 +0000
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> wrote:

> Cheat for now and say all files belong to init_user_ns.  Next
> step will be to let superblocks belong to a user_ns, and derive
> inode_userns(inode) from inode->i_sb->s_user_ns.  Finally we'll
> introduce more flexible arrangements.
> 
>
> ...
>
> +
> +/*
> + * return 1 if current either has CAP_FOWNER to the
> + * file, or owns the file.
> + */
> +int is_owner_or_cap(const struct inode *inode)
> +{
> +	struct user_namespace *ns = inode_userns(inode);
> +
> +	if (current_user_ns() == ns && current_fsuid() == inode->i_uid)
> +		return 1;
> +	if (ns_capable(ns, CAP_FOWNER))
> +		return 1;
> +	return 0;
> +}

bool?

> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(is_owner_or_cap);

There's a fairly well adhered to convention that global symbols (and
often static symbols) have a prefix which identifies the subsystem to
which they belong.  This patchset rather scorns that convention.

Most of these identifiers are pretty obviously from the capability
subsystem, but still...

>
> ...
>


  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-19  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-17 15:02 userns: targeted capabilities v5 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 [this message]
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 ` userns: targeted capabilities v5 Andrew Morton
2011-02-18  3:53   ` 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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