Re: [fuse-devel] fuse_get_context() and namespaces

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Fri May 22 2015 - 13:49:34 EST


Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 04:23:55PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
>> On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 5:56 PM, <alexey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > 3.10.0-229 form Scientific Linux and native 4.0.1-1 (from elrepo).
>> > SL 7.1 on the host and SL 6.6 on the LXC guest. At least in 3.10
>> > the 499dcf2024092e5cce41d05599a5b51d1f92031a is present.
>> > Steps to reproduce:
>> >
>> > On first console:
>> > [root@sl7test ~]# lxc-start -n test-2 /bin/su -
>> > [root@test-2 ~]# diff -u hello.py /usr/share/doc/fuse-python-0.2.1/example/hello.py
>> > --- hello.py 2015-05-02 11:12:13.963093580 -0400
>> > +++ /usr/share/doc/fuse-python-0.2.1/example/hello.py 2010-04-14 18:29:21.000000000 -0400
>> > @@ -41,8 +41,6 @@
>> > class HelloFS(Fuse):
>> >
>> > def getattr(self, path):
>> > - dic = Fuse.GetContext(self)
>> > - print dic
>> > st = MyStat()
>> > if path == '/':
>> > st.st_mode = stat.S_IFDIR | 0755
>> > [root@test-2 ~]# python hello.py -f /mnt/
>> >
>> > On second console:
>> > [root@test-2 ~]# echo $$
>> > 41
>> > [root@test-2 ~]# ls /mnt/
>> > hello
>> >
>> > Output of first console:
>> > {'gid': 0, 'pid': 12083, 'uid': 0}
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Digging in mailbox... There was a thread last year about adding
>> support for running fuse daemon in a container:
>>
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1811658
>>
>> Not sure what happened, but no updated patches have been posted or
>> maybe I just missed them.
>
> I haven't sent updated patches in a while. I still intend to, but I
> shifted focus to first getting general support for mounts from user
> namespaces into the vfs (which will give a clearer direction for some of
> the concerns raised about the fuse patches).
>
> All of this code is available in the userns-mounts branch of
> git://kernel.ubuntu.com/sforshee/linux.git, and I don't think the fuse
> patches actually depend on any of the stuff that precedes them. I'm
> planning to start submitting some of the earlier patches from that
> branch soon, and eventually get back to resubmitting the fuse patches.
>
> This is about pid namespaces though, and the fuse pid namespace patch
> from that series (see below) should be more or less independent of the
> rest of the patches. Potentially that could be merged separately from
> the user namespae stuff.

[snip]

> @@ -2076,7 +2077,15 @@ static int convert_fuse_file_lock(const struct fuse_file_lock *ffl,
>
> fl->fl_start = ffl->start;
> fl->fl_end = ffl->end;
> - fl->fl_pid = ffl->pid;
> +
> + /*
> + * Convert pid into the connection's pid namespace. If the
> + * pid does not map into the namespace fl_pid will get set
> + * to 0.
> + */
> + rcu_read_lock();
> + fl->fl_pid = pid_vnr(find_pid_ns(ffl->pid, fc->pid_ns));
> + rcu_read_unlock();

Scratches my head. This looks wrong.

I would have expected pid_nr_ns. Am I missing something reading this
patch quickly?

Eric
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