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Re: [PATCH 1/9] Add a user_namespace as creator/owner of uts_namespace [message #41774 is a reply to message #41747] Fri, 18 February 2011 16:57 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Daniel Lezcano is currently offline  Daniel Lezcano
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On 02/17/2011 04:02 PM, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> copy_process() handles CLONE_NEWUSER before the rest of the
> namespaces. So in the case of clone(CLONE_NEWUSER|CLONE_NEWUTS)
> the new uts namespace will have the new user namespace as its
> owner. That is what we want, since we want root in that new
> userns to be able to have privilege over it.
>
> Changelog:
> Feb 15: don't set uts_ns->user_ns if we didn't create
> a new uts_ns.
>
> Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn<serge.hallyn@canonical.com>

Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>

A couple of comments.

> ---
> include/linux/utsname.h | 3 +++
> init/version.c | 2 ++
> kernel/nsproxy.c | 5 +++++
> kernel/user.c | 8 ++++++--
> kernel/utsname.c | 4 ++++
> 5 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/utsname.h b/include/linux/utsname.h
> index 69f3997..85171be 100644
> --- a/include/linux/utsname.h
> +++ b/include/linux/utsname.h
> @@ -37,9 +37,12 @@ struct new_utsname {
> #include<linux/nsproxy.h>
> #include<linux/err.h>
>
> +struct user_namespace;
> +
> struct uts_namespace {
> struct kref kref;
> struct new_utsname name;
> + struct user_namespace *user_ns;
> };
> extern struct uts_namespace init_uts_ns;
>
> diff --git a/init/version.c b/init/version.c
> index adff586..97bb86f 100644
> --- a/init/version.c
> +++ b/init/version.c
> @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ extern int version_string(LINUX_VERSION_CODE);
> int version_string(LINUX_VERSION_CODE);
> #endif
>
> +extern struct user_namespace init_user_ns;
> struct uts_namespace init_uts_ns = {
> .kref = {
> .refcount = ATOMIC_INIT(2),
> @@ -33,6 +34,7 @@ struct uts_namespace init_uts_ns = {
> .machine = UTS_MACHINE,
> .domainname = UTS_DOMAINNAME,
> },
> + .user_ns =&init_user_ns,
> };
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(init_uts_ns);
>
> diff --git a/kernel/nsproxy.c b/kernel/nsproxy.c
> index f74e6c0..034dc2e 100644
> --- a/kernel/nsproxy.c
> +++ b/kernel/nsproxy.c
> @@ -74,6 +74,11 @@ static struct nsproxy *create_new_namespaces(unsigned long flags,
> err = PTR_ERR(new_nsp->uts_ns);
> goto out_uts;
> }
> + if (new_nsp->uts_ns != tsk->nsproxy->uts_ns) {
> + put_user_ns(new_nsp->uts_ns->user_ns);
> + new_nsp->uts_ns->user_ns = task_cred_xxx(tsk, user)->user_ns;
> + get_user_ns(new_nsp->uts_ns->user_ns);
> + }

IMO you should add a comment telling this code assume create_user_ns was
called before (via copy_cred).

>
> new_nsp->ipc_ns = copy_ipcs(flags, tsk->nsproxy->ipc_ns);
> if (IS_ERR(new_nsp->ipc_ns)) {

[ ... ]

> static struct uts_namespace *create_uts_ns(void)
> {
> @@ -40,6 +41,8 @@ static struct uts_namespace *clone_uts_ns(struct uts_namespace *old_ns)
>
> down_read(&uts_sem);
> memcpy(&ns->name,&old_ns->name, sizeof(ns->name));
> + ns->user_ns = old_ns->user_ns;
> + get_user_ns(ns->user_ns);

ns->user_ns = get_user_ns(old_ns->user_ns);

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