Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] Filesystem namespaces and uid/gid/lsm remapping

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On Mon, 2014-12-08 at 15:59 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >>  - How should LSM security labels be translated?
> >
> > I'm definitely interested in that.  Especially with respect to how to deal
> > with SELinux + overlay{fs,}/unionmount.
> >
> > Also, I'm interested in how keyrings should interact with namespaces.  Should
> > keys be namespaced?
> 
> Key lookups are already per user namespace, so I would call that
> namespaced.  We do have the question with keys, should we allow
> duplicate key values so that checkpoint/restart can carry keys between
> different kernels.
> 
> > And I'm also interested in how upcalls, including to /sbin/request-key, should
> > be dealt with.
> 
> Good question.  There is some ongoing discussion on that right now.

Aren't the upcalls exactly the same problem as NFS in a container (which
uses daemon upcalls).  Can the existing solution for that be
generalised?

James


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