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SubjectRe: [PATCH v5 0/3] implement OA2_CRED_INHERIT flag for openat2()
On Tue, May 07, 2024 at 01:38:42PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Tue, May 7, 2024 at 12:42 AM Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > > With my kernel hat on, maybe I agree. But with my *user* hat on, I
> > > think I pretty strongly disagree. Look, idmapis lousy for
> > > unprivileged use:
> > >
> > > $ install -m 0700 -d test_directory
> > > $ echo 'hi there' >test_directory/file
> > > $ podman run -it --rm
> > > --mount=type=bind,src=test_directory,dst=/tmp,idmap [debian-slim]
> >
> > $ podman run -it --rm --mount=type=bind,src=test_directory,dst=/tmp,idmap [debian-slim]
> >
> > as an unprivileged user doesn't use idmapped mounts at all. So I'm not
> > sure what this is showing. I suppose you're talking about idmaps in
> > general.
>
> Meh, fair enough. But I don't think this would have worked any better
> with privilege.
>
> Can idmaps be programmed by an otherwise unprivileged owner of a
> userns and a mountns inside?

Yes, but only for userns mountable filesystems that support idmapped
mounts. IOW, you need privilege over the superblock and the idmapping
you're trying to use.

>
> > Many idmappings to one is in principle possible and I've noted that idea
> > down as a possible extension at
> > https://github.com/uapi-group/kernel-features quite a while (2 years?) ago.
> >
> > > I haven't looked at the idmap implementation nearly enough to have any
> > > opinion as to whether squashing UID is practical or whether there's
> >
> > It's doable. The interesting bit to me was that if we want to allow
> > writes we'd need a way to determine what the uid/gid would be to write
> > down. Imho, that's not super difficult to solve though. The most obvious
> > one is that userspace can just determine it when creating the idmapped
> > mount.
>
> Seems reasonable to me. If this is set up by someone unprivileged, it
> would need to be that uid/gid.

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