Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [lxc-devel] [RFC PATCH 11/11] loop: Allow priveleged operations for root in the namespace which owns a device | From | "Michael H. Warfield" <> | Date | Mon, 26 May 2014 11:32:05 -0400 |
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On Mon, 2014-05-26 at 11:16 +0200, Seth Forshee wrote: > On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 08:48:25AM +0300, Marian Marinov wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > One question about this patch. > > > > Why don't you use the devices cgroup check if the root user in that namespace is allowed to use this device? > > > > This way you can be sure that the root in that namespace can not access devices to which the host system did not gave > > him access to.
> That might be possible, but I don't want to require something on the > host to whitelist the device for the container. Then loop would need to > automatically add the device to devices.allow, which doesn't seem > desirable to me. But I'm not entirely opposed to the idea if others > think this is a better way to go.
I don't see any safe way to avoid it. The host has to be in control of what devices can and can not be accessed by the container.
> Seth
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