Re: [PATCH V3 0/6] namespaces: log namespaces per task

[Nicolas Dichtel]

Le 20/08/2014 18:25, Richard Guy Briggs a écrit :
> On 14/08/19, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > > On 14/05/20, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> > > > On 14/05/20, Eric Paris wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, 2014-05-20 at 09:12 -0400, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> > > > > > The purpose is to track namespaces in use by logged processes from the
> > > > > > perspective of init_*_ns.
> > >
> > > (Including the Linux API list due to the additions to /proc/<pid>/ns/.
> > > Please see http://www.kernelhub.org/?p=2&msg=477668 and in particular
> > > http://www.kernelhub.org/?msg=477678&p=2 )
> >
> > Sigh if you have to use something like this use the proc inode
> > number.  It is the same thing.
> >
> > I hate to claim it is unique absent of the proc superblock but it is and
> > will be for the forseable future.
> >
> > It would be better to include the block device number that appears in
> > proc of 3h of the primary mount of to qualify the number.  But it is not
> > particularly important.  Coming up with an additional unique number that
> > needs to be maintained seems stronlgy silly.
>
> I am reading a contradiction here:
> 	https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2013-March/msg00032.html
>
> and this posting went completely ignored:
> 	https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2014-January/msg00180.html
>
> And then there was this patchset and thread where there was some good
> discussion to clarify the use case:
> 	https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/22/662
>
> Then V2:
> 	https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/9/637
>
> Then V3 3 months ago:
> 	https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2014-May/msg00071.html
>
> I'm about to post another version of the patchset addressing Eric Paris'
> concerns about record types, field naming...
I also try to find a solution to identify netns in userland to solve
some network problems (see 
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/315933/focus=321753).

This serial number solution may be reused for this.
We really need to find a way to solve this.


Regards,
Nicolas
--
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/