On Sat 02-07-16 12:18:08, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > As well as in these patches the code is also available from: > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace.git for-testing > > It has been a long time in coming but recently in the userns tree the > superblock has been expanded with a s_user_ns field indicating the user > namespace that owns a superblock. > > The s_user_ns owner of a superblock has three implications. > - Only kuids and kgids that map into s_user_ns are allowed to be sent to a > filesystem from the vfs. > - If the uid or gid on the filesystem does not map into s_user_ns i_uid > is set to INVALID_UID and i_gid is set to INVALID_GID. > - The scope of permission checks can be changed from global to a > capabilitiy check in s_user_ns. OK, to check that I understand it right: So the uids and gids that are stored on disk are still expected to be in the initial id namespace, aren't they? Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
