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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Yunhui Cui <cuiyunhui@bytedance.com>
Cc: keescook@chromium.org, brauner@kernel.org, jeffxu@google.com,
	frederic@kernel.org, mcgrof@kernel.org, cyphar@cyphar.com,
	rongtao@cestc.cn, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pid_ns: support pidns switching between sibling
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2023 10:22:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231011102231.5464c68ddd9e89deb9aa0ca9@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231011065446.53034-1-cuiyunhui@bytedance.com>

On Wed, 11 Oct 2023 14:54:46 +0800 Yunhui Cui <cuiyunhui@bytedance.com> wrote:

> In the scenario of container acceleration, when a target pstree
> is cloned from a temp pstree, we hope that the cloned process is
> inherently in the target's pid namespace.
> Examples of what we expected:
> 
> /* switch to target ns first. */
> setns(target_ns, CLONE_NEWPID);
> if(!fork()) {
> /* Child */
> ...
> }
> /* switch back */
> setns(temp_ns, CLONE_NEWPID);
> 
> However, it is limited by the existing implementation, CAP_SYS_ADMIN
> has been checked in pidns_install(), so remove the limitation that only
> by traversing parent can switch pidns.
> 

(cc Eric)

> --- a/kernel/pid_namespace.c
> +++ b/kernel/pid_namespace.c
> @@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ static int pidns_install(struct nsset *nsset, struct ns_common *ns)
>  {
>  	struct nsproxy *nsproxy = nsset->nsproxy;
>  	struct pid_namespace *active = task_active_pid_ns(current);
> -	struct pid_namespace *ancestor, *new = to_pid_ns(ns);
> +	struct pid_namespace *new = to_pid_ns(ns);
>  
>  	if (!ns_capable(new->user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN) ||
>  	    !ns_capable(nsset->cred->user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
> @@ -406,12 +406,6 @@ static int pidns_install(struct nsset *nsset, struct ns_common *ns)
>  	if (new->level < active->level)
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  
> -	ancestor = new;
> -	while (ancestor->level > active->level)
> -		ancestor = ancestor->parent;
> -	if (ancestor != active)
> -		return -EINVAL;
> -
>  	put_pid_ns(nsproxy->pid_ns_for_children);
>  	nsproxy->pid_ns_for_children = get_pid_ns(new);
>  	return 0;
> -- 
> 2.20.1

  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-11 17:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-11  6:54 Yunhui Cui
2023-10-11 17:22 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2023-10-12  3:30 ` Eric W. Biederman
2023-10-13  2:44   ` [External] " yunhui cui
2023-10-13  8:55     ` yunhui cui
2023-10-13 13:03     ` Eric W. Biederman
2023-10-14  3:41       ` yunhui cui
2023-10-14  4:21         ` Eric W. Biederman

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