Re: [RFC] RPCBIND: add anonymous listening socket in addition to named one

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On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 07:17:30PM +0400, Stanislav Kinsbursky wrote:
> I've experienced a problem with registering Lockd service with
> rpcbind in container. My container operates in it's own network
> namespace context and has it's own root. But on service register,
> kernel tries to connect to named unix socket by using
> rpciod_workqueue. Thus any connect is done with the same fs->root,

There's no way to pass the correct context down to the rpc task and from
there to the registration code?

--b.

> and this leads to that kernel socket, used for registering service
> with local portmapper, will always connect to the same user-space
> socket regardless to fs->root of process, requested register
> operation.
> Possible solution for this problem, which I would like to discuss,
> is to add one more listening socket to rpcbind process. But this one
> should be anonymous. Anonymous unix sockets accept connections only
> within it's network namespace context, so kernel socket connect will
> be done always to the user-space socket in the same network
> namespace.
> Does anyone have any objections to this? Or, probably, better
> solution for the problem?
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Stanislav Kinsbursky
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