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Re: [PATCH] capabilities: add capability cgroup controller

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Quoting Tejun Heo (tj@kernel.org):
> Hello,
> 
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 12:22:54AM +0000, Topi Miettinen wrote:
> > > This doesn't have anything to do with resource control and I don't
> > > think it's a good idea to add arbitrary monitoring mechanisms to
> > > cgroup just because it's easy to add interface there.  Given that
> > > capabilities are inherited and modified through the process hierarchy,
> > > shouldn't this be part of that?
> > 
> > With per process tracking, it's easy to miss if a short-lived process
> > exercised capabilities. Especially with ambient capabilities, the parent
> > process could be a shell script which might not use capabilities at all,
> > but its children do the heavy lifting.
> 
> But isn't being recursive orthogonal to using cgroup?  Why not account
> usages recursively along the process hierarchy?  Capabilities don't
> have much to do with cgroup but everything with process hierarchy.
> That's how they're distributed and modified.  If monitoring their
> usages is necessary, it makes sense to do it in the same structure.

That was my argument against using cgroups to enforce a new bounding
set.  For tracking though, the cgroup process tracking seems as applicable
to this as it does to systemd tracking of services.  It tracks a task and
the children it forks.

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Re: [PATCH] capabilities: add capability cgroup controller Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2016-06-23 23:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] capabilities: add capability cgroup controller Topi Miettinen <toiwoton@gmail.com> - 2016-06-24 02:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] capabilities: add capability cgroup controller Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2016-06-24 17:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] capabilities: add capability cgroup controller "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> - 2016-06-24 18:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] capabilities: add capability cgroup controller Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2016-06-24 18:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] capabilities: add capability cgroup controller "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> - 2016-06-24 19:00 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] capabilities: add capability cgroup controller Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2016-06-24 19:30 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] capabilities: add capability cgroup controller Topi Miettinen <toiwoton@gmail.com> - 2016-06-26 21:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] capabilities: add capability cgroup controller Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2016-06-27 00:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] capabilities: add capability cgroup controller "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> - 2016-06-27 17:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] capabilities: add capability cgroup controller Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2016-06-27 21:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] capabilities: add capability cgroup controller "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> - 2016-06-27 21:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] capabilities: add capability cgroup controller Topi Miettinen <toiwoton@gmail.com> - 2016-07-03 17:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] capabilities: audit capability use kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> - 2016-07-03 18:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] capabilities: add capability cgroup controller Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> - 2016-07-07 11:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] capabilities: add capability cgroup controller Topi Miettinen <toiwoton@gmail.com> - 2016-07-07 22:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] capabilities: add capability cgroup controller Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> - 2016-07-08 11:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] capabilities: add capability cgroup controller Topi Miettinen <toiwoton@gmail.com> - 2016-07-09 18:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] capabilities: add capability cgroup controller Topi Miettinen <toiwoton@gmail.com> - 2016-06-27 21:20 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] capabilities: add capability cgroup controller ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) - 2016-06-24 19:40 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] capabilities: add capability cgroup controller "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> - 2016-06-24 19:50 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] capabilities: add capability cgroup controller Topi Miettinen <toiwoton@gmail.com> - 2016-06-26 21:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] capabilities: add capability cgroup controller ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) - 2016-06-28 07:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] capabilities: add capability cgroup controller Topi Miettinen <toiwoton@gmail.com> - 2016-07-02 13:30 +0200

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