Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting dlezcano@fr.ibm.com (dlezcano@fr.ibm.com):
>> Paul Menage mentionned, a few weeks ago, he wanted a bind filtering 
>> for containers. Here it is  :) 
>>
>> The following patches are a proposition to bring IP isolation to a container.
>>
>> After looking more closely at the code I found that security hooks are
>> at the right place to catch socket calls. The IP isolation relies on the
>> security hooks and that has the advantage of not having the kernel code modified,
>> (expect container.h and makefile/kconfig), the patchset provide just a new 
>> file container_network.c
>>
>> Roughly, a container has a subsystem for the network (only ipv4). 
> 
> Just curious - why ipv4 only?  When i wrote the bsdjail lsm, using the
> same approach, doing ipv6 address was pretty simple.  Did something
> change?  Or is ipv4 just a temporary restriction while you prototype?

It is a temporary restriction for the prototype.
> 
>> This subsystem contains the list of the addresses allowed to be used by the 
>> container. If a container tries to bind to an address not contained into
>> this list, the bind will fail with EPERM. Of course the bind is allowed to
>> INADDR_ANY.
>>
>> If this approach is ok for everyone, I can extend the bind filtering to
>> consolidate the IP isolation.
> 
> You'll want to cc: the linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org list on
> this patchset.

Sure.

> thanks,
> -serge
> 

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