[Devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3] keys: play nicely with user namespaces

[David Howells]

Serge E. Hallyn <serue at us.ibm.com> wrote:

> I guess the question is what sorts of keys would you want a child
> user-namespace to inherit (that perhaps it couldn't)?  The primary
> ones I can think of are keys for an encrypted fs.

Yeah.  But it can always ask for them.

> Are there any sorts of keys X uses?

Not at the moment.

> Anyway if this set of patches does the segration correctly, I can float
> a patch on top of these to copy the keyrings.

Each key type would need to provide an operation for copying its keys.

> But should the (automatic in-kernel) copy then still go through the security
> checks?  (If not, is that safe, and if so, is there any advantage?)

I'm not sure, and that raises an interesting point.  How do you alter the UID
and GID of keys that you're copying?  You may have a set of keys with
different UIDs, for example.

> Do you have an automated testsuite for the keyrings?  I just played
> around with keyctl to test, since there was nothing in ltp.

Yes.

	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/keys/keyutils/keyutils-tests.tar.bz2

which may need:

	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/keys/keyutils/rhts_environment.sh

The tests are designed to run under RH's automated test environment.  All my
tests are shell scripts that wrap the keyctl program.

David
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