2009/8/24 Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxx>
> Krzysztof Taraszka wrote:
>
>> 2009/8/24 Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Krzysztof Taraszka wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> 2009/8/24 Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>> Krzysztof Taraszka wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> 2009/8/23 Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxx>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> (...)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> With the lxc tools I did:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> lxc-execute -n foo /bin/bash
>>>>>>> echo 268435456 > /cgroup/foo/memory.limit_in_bytes
>>>>>>> mount --bind /cgroup/foo/memory.meminfo /proc/meminfo
>>>>>>> for i in $(seq 1 100); do sleep 3600 & done
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> (...)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> hmmm... I think that access to the cgroup inside container is very
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> risk
>>>>>> because I am able to manage for example memory resources (what if I am
>>>>>> not
>>>>>> the host owner and... I can give me via non-secure mounted /cgroup
>>>>>> (inside
>>>>>> container) all available memory resources...).
>>>>>> I think that the /proc/meminfo should be pass to the container in the
>>>>>> other
>>>>>> way, but this is the topic for the other thread.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It is not a problem, I did it in this way because it's easy to test
>>>>>> but
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> in
>>>>> a real use case, the memory limit is setup by the lxc configuration
>>>>> file
>>>>> and
>>>>> the cgroup directory will be no longer accessible from the container.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> So.. how there will be another method (more secure) for giving
>>>> /proc/meminfo
>>>> with limits to the container, right?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Same method. The lxc tools can be configured with a fstab to mount more
>>> mount points, furthermore if memory.meminfo is available I will add the
>>> code
>>> to mount it automatically to /proc/meminfo in the lxc tools.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> Hmm... setup_fs() from lxc_init.c or another way?
>>
>>
> No, I was thinking in the setup_cgroup() function in conf.c.
>
> Something like:
>
> ...
>
> if (!access("/var/lib/lxc/mycontainer/nsgroup/memory.meminfo"), F_OK) {
> mount("/var/lib/lxc/mycontainer/nsgroup/memory.meminfo", "/proc/meminfo",
> MS_BIND, ...);
> }
>
> ...
>
>
> but a bit more clean :)
>
Oh, ok. I didn't read conf.c jet :) thanks for the tip. I will play with it
today or... you can be faster than me and do it before that I do (like you
did with the memory.meminfo kernel patch ;)), because you know how does it
look like more than me...
--
Krzysztof Taraszka
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