[Devel] Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2] user namespace [try #2]

[Cedric Le Goater]

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Herbert Poetzl <herbert at 13thfloor.at> writes:
> 
>> On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 12:18:14PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>> Kirill Korotaev <dev at sw.ru> writes:
>>>
>>>> yes, these patches are usable for OpenVZ AS IS, so I'm not sure
>>>> why we can't do step by step and commit. However I posted some comments on
>>>> patches...
>>>>
>>>> Eric do you have some STRONG objections (maybe I just missed it somewhere)?
>>> - We do not handle interactions between processes in different uid
>>>   namespaces and still have the normal uid equality checks.
>>> - I am willing to be convinced that this is a nuclear missile the user
>>>   is allowed to shoot themselves in the foot with if someone can show me
>>>   how to use the current version safely.
>>>
>>> A lot of this scares me silly as when ever you touch the primary
>>> identifier in the security checks you must be very very very careful.
>>> My gut feeling is that I'm nowhere near paranoid enough and the rest
>>> of you aren't even paranoid.
>>>
>>> What I want to see is that every uid identity check becomes either
>>> a struct user comparison or a uid, uid_ns tuple comparison.
>> second that!
> 
> In addition I don't have problems with incremental progress
> if we implement in such a way that we don't enable the ability
> to create a new uid namespace to user space before we are certain
> it is safe.
> 
> All of the code could be present and we just have a one line check
> that denied requests to create a new namespace.

OK. I'll see how this is possible. I guess the simplest way for the moment
is to remove the unshare() of the user_namespace.

So, shall we follow the 'grep' method for uids like we are doing for pids
and thread ? This is going to be painful but I guess there is no simple
solution ...

C.
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