Messages in this thread | | | From | Andy Lutomirski <> | Date | Fri, 23 Aug 2013 10:42:07 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] fork: unify and tighten up CLONE_NEWUSER/CLONE_NEWPID checks |
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On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 6:59 AM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> wrote: > On 08/22, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> >> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> wrote: >> > On 08/22, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> >> >> >> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> wrote: >> >> > >> >> > Yes. Before this patch do_fork() did: >> >> > >> >> > if (clone_flags & (CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_NEWPID)) { >> >> > if (clone_flags & (CLONE_THREAD|CLONE_PARENT)) >> >> > return -EINVAL; >> >> > } >> >> > >> >> > however, let me repeat, CLONE_PARENT after unshare(CLONE_NEWPID) was >> >> > allowed. With this patch CLONE_PARENT is nacked in both cases. >> >> >> >> Is this -stable-worthy? >> > >> > Honestly, I do not know. I do not want to abuse -stable, and I will >> > sleep better if this patch won't go into the stable trees ;) >> > >> > OTOH, I think that at least 1/3 is probably -stable material... Since >> > I am going to send v2, I would not mind to add stable@vger.kernel.org >> > if both you and Eric agree. >> >> This may allow creation of a process with tgid and pid in different >> pid namespaces. If so, I have no idea what the consequences would be. > > and share the parent with the creator. > > Not good. But probably not too bad, one can abuse ->pidns_install() > anyway, create a child in another ns, exit. Like it or not but pid_ns > is "special" and you even sent the patch to reflect this sad^W fact. > > Anyway. The main point of this patch is the consistency (plus imho it > cleanups/simplifies the code). Both CLONE_NEWPID and > "task_active_pid_ns() != pid_ns" create a task in another namespace, > we should use the same restrictions. > > And you seem to agree with this change, can I take it as your ack ? > I am going to preserve your acks in 1-2 and resend. >
Yes. These patches probably want Eric's ack, too, though -- it's his code.
--Andy
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