On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 08:03:18PM +0000, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-11-11 at 18:57 +0000, Sargun Dhillon wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 02:38:11PM +0000, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2020-11-11 at 11:12 +0000, Sargun Dhillon wrote:
> > >
> > > The current code for setting server->cred was developed
> > > independently
> > > of fsopen() (and predates it actually). I'm fine with the change to
> > > have server->cred be the cred of the user that called fsopen().
> > > That's
> > > in line with what we used to do for sys_mount().
> > >
> > Just curious, without FS_USERNS, how were you mounting NFSv4 in an
> > unprivileged user ns?
>
> The code was originally developed on a 5.1 kernel. So all my testing
> has been with ordinary sys_mount() calls in a container that had
> CAP_SYS_ADMIN privileges.
>
> > > However all the other stuff to throw errors when the user namespace
> > > is
> > > not init_user_ns introduces massive regressions.
> > >
> >
> > I can remove that and respin the patch. How do you feel about that?
> > I would
> > still like to keep the log lines though because it is a uapi change.
> > I am
> > worried that someone might exercise this path with GSS and allow for
> > upcalls
> > into the main namespaces by accident -- or be confused of why they're
> > seeing
> > upcalls "in a different namespace".
> >
> > Are you okay with picking up ("NFS: NFSv2/NFSv3: Use cred from
> > fs_context during
> > mount") without any changes?
>
> Why do we need the dprintk()s? It seems to me that either they should
> be reporting something that the user needs to know (in which case they
> should be real printk()s) or they are telling us something that we
> should already know. To me they seem to fit more in the latter
> category.
>
> >
> > I can respin ("NFSv4: Refactor NFS to use user namespaces") without:
> > /*
> > * nfs4idmap is not fully isolated by user namespaces. It is
> > currently
> > * only network namespace aware. If upcalls never happen, we do not
> > * need to worry as nfs_client instances aren't shared between
> > * user namespaces.
> > */
> > if (idmap_userns(server->nfs_client->cl_idmap) != &init_user_ns &&
> > !(server->caps & NFS_CAP_UIDGID_NOMAP)) {
> > error = -EINVAL;
> > errorf(fc, "Mount credentials are from non init user
> > namespace and ID mapping is enabled. This is not allowed.");
> > goto error;
> > }
> >
> > (and making it so we can call idmap_userns)
> >
>
> Yes. That would be acceptable. Again, though, I'd like to see the
> dprintk()s gone.
>
I can drop the dprintks, but given this is a uapi change, does it make sense to
pr_info_once? Especially, because this can have security impact?
