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From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 0/3]Sysctl: clean the code and prepare for secure use in containers
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:47:10 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47C569DE.9060208@openvz.org> (raw)
Many (most of) sysctls do not have a per-container sense. E.g.
kernel.print_fatal_signals, vm.panic_on_oom, net.core.netdev_budget
and so on and so forth. Besides, tuning then from inside a container
is not even secure. On the other hand, hiding them completely from
the container's tasks sometimes causes user-space to stop working.
When developing net sysctl, the common practice was to duplicate
a table and drop the write bits in table->mode, but this approach
was not very elegant, lead to excessive memory consumption and
was not suitable in general.
Here's the alternative solution. To facilitate the per-container
sysctls ctl_table_root-s were introduced. Each root contains a
list of ctl_table_header-s that are visible to different namespaces.
The idea of this set is to add the permissions() callback on the
ctl_table_root to allow ctl root limit permissions to the same
ctl_table-s.
The main user of this functionality is the net-namespaces code,
but later this will (should) be used by more and more namespaces,
containers and control groups.
Actually, this idea's core is in a single hunk in the third patch.
First two patches are cleanups for sysctl code, while the third
one mostly extends the arguments set of some sysctl functions.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
next reply other threads:[~2008-02-27 13:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-27 13:47 Pavel Emelyanov [this message]
2008-02-27 13:48 ` [PATCH 1/3] Sysctl: merge equal proc_sys_read and proc_sys_write Pavel Emelyanov
2008-02-27 13:51 ` [PATCH 2/3] Sysctl: clean from unneeded extern and forward declarations Pavel Emelyanov
2008-02-27 13:54 ` [PATCH 3/3] Sysctl: add the ->permissions callback on the ctl_table_root Pavel Emelyanov
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