Re: [PATCH] Deny CLONE_PARENT|CLONE_NEWPID combination

From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu
Date: Tue Jul 28 2009 - 15:04:32 EST


Serge E. Hallyn [serue@xxxxxxxxxx] wrote:
| Quoting Sukadev Bhattiprolu (sukadev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx):
| >
| > Deny CLONE_PARENT|CLONE_NEWPID combination.
| >
| > CLONE_PARENT was used to implement an older threading model. For consistency
| > with the CLONE_THREAD check in copy_pid_ns(), disable CLONE_PARENT and
| > CLONE_SIGHAND with CLONE_NEWPID, at least until the required semantics of
| > the pid namespaces are clear.
| >
| > Changelog[v3]:
| > Remove CLONE_SIGHAND and for now only fail CLONE_NEWPID|CLONE_PARENT.
|
| (FWIW your patch description does not reflect this...)

You are right. Here is the patch with updated description.
---

Deny CLONE_PARENT|CLONE_NEWPID|CLONE_SIGHAND combination.

CLONE_PARENT was used to implement an older threading model. For consistency
with the CLONE_THREAD check in copy_pid_ns(), disable CLONE_PARENT with
CLONE_NEWPID, at least until the required semantics of pid namespaces are
clear.

Changelog[v3]:
Remove CLONE_SIGHAND and for now only fail CLONE_NEWPID|CLONE_PARENT.
Changelog[v2]:
[Eric Biederman] Disable CLONE_SIGHAND also ?

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/pid_namespace.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-mmotm/kernel/pid_namespace.c
===================================================================
--- linux-mmotm.orig/kernel/pid_namespace.c 2009-07-16 10:03:01.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-mmotm/kernel/pid_namespace.c 2009-07-16 11:37:24.000000000 -0700
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@
{
if (!(flags & CLONE_NEWPID))
return get_pid_ns(old_ns);
- if (flags & CLONE_THREAD)
+ if (flags & (CLONE_THREAD|CLONE_PARENT))
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
return create_pid_namespace(old_ns);
}
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/