Re: [PATCH] utsns: fix !CONFIG_UTS_NS behavior

From: Serge E. Hallyn
Date: Sun Mar 25 2007 - 12:17:07 EST


Quoting Andrew Morton (akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx):
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:00:39 -0500 "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > When CONFIG_UTS_NS=n, clone(CLONE_NEWUTS) quietly refuses. So correctly does
> > not unshare a new uts namespace, but also does not return -EINVAL.
> >
> > Fix this to return -EINVAL so the caller knows his request was denied.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > ---
> >
> > include/linux/utsname.h | 2 ++
> > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >
> > bc350994ac67df8f1b917f9979c065d87757eabe
> > diff --git a/include/linux/utsname.h b/include/linux/utsname.h
> > index a4555fe..e10267d 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/utsname.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/utsname.h
> > @@ -70,6 +70,8 @@ static inline int unshare_utsname(unsign
> >
> > static inline int copy_utsname(int flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
> > {
> > + if (flags & CLONE_NEWUTS)
> > + return -EINVAL;
> > return 0;
> > }
> > static inline void put_uts_ns(struct uts_namespace *ns)
>
> I'm assuming that this is 2.6.21 material.
>
> Please review -mm's merge-sys_clone-sys_unshare-nsproxy-and-namespace.patch
> - it probably needs to propagate this fix.

Yes it does. Here's a patch on top of 2.6.21-rc4-mm1. (or do you prefer
I integrate it into merge-sys_clone-sys_unshare-nsproxy-and-namespace.patch
itself?)

From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [PATCH] utsns [-mm]: fix !CONFIG_UTS_NS behavior

When CONFIG_UTS_NS=n, clone(CLONE_NEWUTS) quietly refuses. So correctly does
not unshare a new uts namespace, but also does not return -EINVAL.

Fix this to return -EINVAL so the caller knows his request was denied.

Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx>

---

arch/s390/boot/image | Bin
include/linux/utsname.h | 3 +++
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

8b4ffb8d88f89f118751f05869613ee16d5c463f
diff --git a/arch/s390/boot/image b/arch/s390/boot/image
index da5b91f..2bab55e 100755
Binary files a/arch/s390/boot/image and b/arch/s390/boot/image differ
diff --git a/include/linux/utsname.h b/include/linux/utsname.h
index 528a071..d63cdd8 100644
--- a/include/linux/utsname.h
+++ b/include/linux/utsname.h
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ struct new_utsname {
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/kref.h>
#include <linux/nsproxy.h>
+#include <linux/err.h>
#include <asm/atomic.h>

struct uts_namespace {
@@ -60,6 +61,8 @@ static inline void put_uts_ns(struct uts
static inline struct uts_namespace *
copy_utsname(int flags, struct uts_namespace *ns)
{
+ if (flags & CLONE_NEWUTS)
+ return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
return ns;
}
static inline void put_uts_ns(struct uts_namespace *ns)
--
1.1.6
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