Hello Andrei, On 24 December 2016 at 14:16, Andrei Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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> Thanks for looking the patches over. > 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 Fair enough. Should in fact the type for the ioctl() argument be changed? I mean, make the following change to the line before: - unsigned int __user *argp; + uid_t __user *argp; And further below, change: - argp = (unsigned int __user *) arg; + argp = (uid_t __user *) arg; ? Happy New Year! Cheers, Michael >> 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 >> -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html