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Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] Add further ioctl() operations for namespace discovery

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"Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> writes:


> On 25 January 2017 at 15:28, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:

>> My concern is that the difference between returning -EOVERFLOW and
>> overflow_uid is primarily about usability.  If you haven't played with
>> the usability I don't trust that we have made the proper trade off.
>
> So, I had not initially included the no-UID-mapping case, and when you
> proposed -EOVERFLOW for that case, it seemed better.
>
> On reflection, mapping to the overflow_uid seems simpler. Taking the
> example shown in my other mail a short time ago, the unmapped UID 0
> from the outer namespace would map to the overflow_uid (which UID my
> program would print), but my program would still correctly report that
> the UID 0 process in the outer namespace might (subject to LSM checks)
> have capabilities in the inner namespace.
>
> So, it seems that reverting the EOVERFLOW change is in order (and my
> example program thus needs no changes). Does that sound reasonable to
> you?

It does.  I just care that you have thought through the tradeoffs of
that corner of the interface design.

Eric

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[PATCH v4 0/2] Add further ioctl() operations for namespace discovery "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> - 2017-01-25 02:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] Add further ioctl() operations for namespace discovery ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) - 2017-01-25 03:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] Add further ioctl() operations for namespace discovery ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) - 2017-01-25 03:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] Add further ioctl() operations for namespace discovery ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) - 2017-01-25 03:40 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] Add further ioctl() operations for namespace discovery "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> - 2017-01-25 05:00 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] Add further ioctl() operations for namespace discovery ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) - 2017-01-26 05:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] Add further ioctl() operations for namespace discovery "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> - 2017-01-25 03:40 +0100

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