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SubjectRe: [PATCH V6 05/10] audit: log creation and deletion of namespace instances
Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com> writes:
> As Eric, and others, have stated, the container concept is a userspace idea,
> not a kernel idea; the kernel only knows, and cares about, namespaces. This
> is unlikely to change.
>
> However, as Steve points out, there is precedence for the kernel to record
> userspace tokens for the sake of audit. Personally I'm not a big fan of this
> in general, but I do recognize that it does satisfy a legitimate need. Think
> of things like auid and the sessionid as necessary evils; audit is already
> chock full of evilness I doubt one more will doom us all to hell.
>
> Moving forward, I'd like to see the following:

> * Create a container ID token (unsigned 32-bit integer?), similar to
> auid/sessionid, that is set by userspace and carried by the kernel to be used
> in audit records. I'd like to see some discussion on how we manage this, e.g.
> how do handle container ID inheritance, how do we handle nested containers
> (setting the containerid when it is already set), do we care if multiple
> different containers share the same namespace config, etc.?


> Can we all live with this? If not, please suggest some alternate ideas;
> simply shouting "IT'S ALL CRAP!" isn't helpful for anyone ... it may be true,
> but it doesn't help us solve the problem ;)

Without stopping and defining what someone means by container I think it
is pretty much nonsense.

Should every vsftp connection get a container every? Every chrome tab?

At some of the connections per second numbers I have seen we might
exhaust a 32bit number in an hour or two. Will any of that make sense
to someone reading the audit logs?

Without considerning that container creation is an unprivileged
operation I think it is pretty much nonsense. Do I get to say I am any
container I want? That would seem to invalidate the concept of
userspace setting a container id.

How does any of this interact with setns? AKA entering a container?

I will go as far as looking at patches. If someone comes up with
a mission statement about what they are actually trying to achieve and a
mechanism that actually achieves that, and that allows for containers to
nest we can talk about doing something like that.

But for right now I just hear proposals for things that make no sense
and can not possibly work. Not least because it will require modifying
every program that creates a container and who knows how many of them
there are. Especially since you don't need to be root. Modifying
/usr/bin/unshare seems a little far out to me.

Eric






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