Re: [RFC PATCH 5/8] KEYS: exec request-key within the requesting task's init namespace

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 12:31:32PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 12:06:20PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 09:47:25AM +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2015-02-05 at 15:14 +0000, David Howells wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > +	/* If running within a container use the container namespace */
> > > > > +	if (current->nsproxy->net_ns != &init_net)
> > > > 
> > > > Is that a viable check?  Is it possible to have a container that shares
> > > > networking details?
> > > 
> > > That's up for discussion.
> > > 
> > > I thought about it and concluded that the check is probably not
> > > sufficient for any of the cases.
> > > 
> > > I left it like that because I'm not sure exactly what the use cases are,
> > > hoping it promote discussion and here we are.
> > > 
> > > I also think the current container environments don't share net
> > > namespace with the root init net namspace, necessarily, because thy are
> > > containers, ;)
> > > 
> > > TBH I haven't looked at the user space container creation code but I
> > > expect it could be done that way if it was needed, so the answer is yes
> > > and no, ;)
> > > 
> > > The questions then are do we need to check anything else, and what
> > > environment should the callback use in the different cases, and what
> > > other cases might break if we change it?
> > > 
> > > For example, should the fs namespace also be checked for all of these
> > > cases, since we're executing a callback, or is whatever that's set to in
> > > the container always what's required for locating the executable.
> > 
> > What would be the disadvantage of setting UMH_USE_NS unconditionally
> > here?
> 
> In the nfs idmapping case, the mapping is per-nfs_client.
> 
> Can nfs_idmap_new be the one that calls umh_get_init_task, with the
> corresponding put done in nfs_idmap_delete, or is there some reason that
> doesn't work?

It's confusing sorting out possible use cases, but I think both of these
are reasonable:

	- mount an nfs filesystem from the host, then spawn containers
	  that all use that filesystem.
	- mount an nfs filesystem from within a container.

Your approach might work for the second, but in the first case we'll end
up with idmappers from multiple containers all trying to do the
idmapping for the shared filesystem.

--b.
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