Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: connect to UNIX sockets from specified root

[Stanislav Kinsbursky]

10.08.2012 22:15, H. Peter Anvin ÐÐÑÐÑ:
> On 08/10/2012 05:57 AM, Stanislav Kinsbursky wrote:
> > Today, there is a problem in connecting of local SUNRPC thansports. These
> > transports uses UNIX sockets and connection itself is done by rpciod
> > workqueue.
> > But UNIX sockets lookup is done in context of process file system root. I.e.
> > all local thunsports are connecting in rpciod context.
> > This works nice until we will try to mount NFS from process with other root -
> > for example in container. This container can have it's own (nested) root and
> > rcpbind process, listening on it's own unix sockets. But NFS mount attempt in
> > this container will register new service (Lockd for example) in global rpcbind
> > - not containers's one.
> >
> > This patch set introduces kernel connect helper for UNIX stream sockets and
> > modifies unix_find_other() to be able to search from specified root.
> > It also replaces generic socket connect call for local transports by new
> > helper in SUNRPC layer.
> >
> > The following series implements...
> On that whole subject...
>
> Do we need a Unix domain socket equivalent to openat()?

It looks like sys_connectat () and sys_bindat () could be an organic 
part on openat () and friends family.
But currently I don't have any usage example for them in hands.  And the 
main problem here, that this syscalls can be used only for unix sockets.

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