Re: [PATCH] userns: Support fuse interacting with multiple user namespaces

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ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman) writes:

> Use kuid_t and kgid_t in struct fuse_conn and struct fuse_mount_data.
>
> The connection between between a fuse filesystem and a fuse daemon is
> established when a fuse filesystem is mounted and provided with a file
> descriptor the fuse daemon created by opening /dev/fuse.
>
> For now restrict the communication of uids and gids between the fuse
> filesystem and the fuse daemon to the initial user namespace.

Why?

I think far more logical would be to limit a single instance of the
filesystem and the daemon to an arbitrary but *single* namespace.
I.e. one fuse_conn <-> one user namespace.

Is there a reason to treat the initial namespace specially?

Thanks,
Miklos
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