lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2018]   [Nov]   [30]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH] fs: Make /proc/sys inodes be owned by global root.
On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 11:29:40PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> writes:
> > Thanks for the description of how to run into the issue described but
> > is there also a practical use case today where this is happening? I ask
> > as it would be good to know the severity of the issue in the real world
> > today.
>
> People trying to run containers without a root user in the container.
> It atypical but something doable.

My question was if there are generic tools / propreitary tools which are
doing this widely *today*. Or is this just a custom setup some folks
use?

> We spoke about this at LPC. And this is the correct behavioral change.
>
> The problem is there is a default value for i_uid and i_gid that is
> correct in the general case. That default value is not corect for
> sysctl, because proc is weird. As the sysctl permission check in
> test_perm are all against GLOBAL_ROOT_UID and GLOBAL_ROOT_GID we did not
> notice that i_uid and i_gid were being set wrong.
>
> So all this patch does is fix the default values i_uid and i_gid.
>
> The commit comment seems worth cleaning up. But for the
> content of the code.

The logic seems sensible then, but are we implicating what a container
does with its sysctl values onto the entire system? If so, sure, it
seems you want this for networking purposes as there are a series of
sysctl values a container may want to muck with, but are we sure we
want the same for *all* sysctl entries?

Luis

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2018-11-30 02:10    [W:0.075 / U:0.508 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site