On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 10:54:53AM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > I'd like to write code that discovers the user namespace hierarchy on > a running system, and also shows who owns the various user namespaces. > Currently, there is no way of getting the owner UID of a user > namespace. Therefore, this patch adds an NS_GET_CREATOR_UID ioctl() > that fetches the (munged) UID of the creator of the user namespace > referred to by the specified file descriptor. > > If the supplied file descriptor does not refer to a user namespace, > the operation fails with the error EINVAL. > Acked-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxxx> Here is one minor comment bellow > Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@xxxxxxxxx> > > --- > V2 changes: > * Renamed ioctl() from NS_CREATOR_UID to NS_OWNER_UID, at the > suggestion of Eric Biederman. > * Make ioctl() return UID via buffer pointed to by argp. (Returning > the UID via the result value could lead to problems since a large > unsigned int UID might be misinterpreted as an error.) Thanks to > Andrei Vagin for pointing this out. > --- > fs/nsfs.c | 11 +++++++++++ > include/uapi/linux/nsfs.h | 8 +++++--- > 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/fs/nsfs.c b/fs/nsfs.c > index 9f24b47..9c9277c 100644 > --- a/fs/nsfs.c > +++ b/fs/nsfs.c > @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ > #include <linux/seq_file.h> > #include <linux/user_namespace.h> > #include <linux/nsfs.h> > +#include <linux/uaccess.h> > > static struct vfsmount *nsfs_mnt; > > @@ -163,7 +164,10 @@ static int open_related_ns(struct ns_common *ns, > static long ns_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int ioctl, > unsigned long arg) > { > + struct user_namespace *user_ns; > struct ns_common *ns = get_proc_ns(file_inode(filp)); > + unsigned int __user *argp; > + unsigned int uid; I think it is better to use uid_t here > > switch (ioctl) { > case NS_GET_USERNS: > @@ -174,6 +178,13 @@ static long ns_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int ioctl, > return open_related_ns(ns, ns->ops->get_parent); > case NS_GET_NSTYPE: > return ns->ops->type; > + case NS_GET_OWNER_UID: > + if (ns->ops->type != CLONE_NEWUSER) > + return -EINVAL; > + user_ns = container_of(ns, struct user_namespace, ns); > + argp = (unsigned int __user *) arg; > + uid = from_kuid_munged(current_user_ns(), user_ns->owner); > + return put_user(uid, argp); > default: > return -ENOTTY; > } > diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/nsfs.h b/include/uapi/linux/nsfs.h > index 2b48df1..c4a925e 100644 > --- a/include/uapi/linux/nsfs.h > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/nsfs.h > @@ -6,11 +6,13 @@ > #define NSIO 0xb7 > > /* Returns a file descriptor that refers to an owning user namespace */ > -#define NS_GET_USERNS _IO(NSIO, 0x1) > +#define NS_GET_USERNS _IO(NSIO, 0x1) > /* Returns a file descriptor that refers to a parent namespace */ > -#define NS_GET_PARENT _IO(NSIO, 0x2) > +#define NS_GET_PARENT _IO(NSIO, 0x2) > /* Returns the type of namespace (CLONE_NEW* value) referred to by > file descriptor */ > -#define NS_GET_NSTYPE _IO(NSIO, 0x3) > +#define NS_GET_NSTYPE _IO(NSIO, 0x3) > +/* Get owner UID for a user namespace */ > +#define NS_GET_OWNER_UID _IO(NSIO, 0x4) > > #endif /* __LINUX_NSFS_H */ > -- > 2.5.5 > -- 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