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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Linux Containers <containers@lists.osdl.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 0/4] Fix the binary ipc and uts namespace sysctls.
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 21:59:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1hcwlmqmp.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
The binary interface to the namespace sysctls was never implemented
resulting in some really weird things if you attempted to use
sys_sysctl to read your hostname for example.
This patch series simples the code a little and implements the binary
sysctl interface.
In testing this patch series I discovered that our 32bit compatibility
for the binary sysctl interface is imperfect. In particular
KERN_SHMMAX and KERN_SMMALL are size_t sized quantities and are
returned as 8 bytes on to 32bit binaries using a x86_64 kernel.
However this has existing for a long time so it is not a new
regression with the namespace work.
Gads the whole sysctl thing needs work before it stops being easy
to shoot yourself in the foot.
Looking forward a little bit we need a better way to handle sysctls
and namespaces as our current technique will not work for the network
namespace. I think something based on the current overlapping sysctl
trees will work but the proc side needs to be redone before we can
use it.
Eric
next reply other threads:[~2006-11-27 5:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-27 4:59 Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2006-11-27 5:05 ` [PATCH 1/4] sysctl: Simplify sysctl_uts_string Eric W. Biederman
2006-11-27 5:05 ` [PATCH 2/4] sysctl: Implement sysctl_uts_string Eric W. Biederman
2006-11-27 5:05 ` [PATCH 3/4] sysctl: Simplify ipc ns specific sysctls Eric W. Biederman
2006-11-29 4:56 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-11-27 5:05 ` [PATCH 4/4] sysctl: Fix sys_sysctl interface of ipc sysctls Eric W. Biederman
2006-11-27 20:22 ` [PATCH 0/4] Fix the binary ipc and uts namespace sysctls Herbert Poetzl
2006-11-27 22:40 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-11-28 14:32 ` Herbert Poetzl
2006-11-28 15:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-11-28 16:21 ` Herbert Poetzl
2006-12-04 22:32 ` [PATCH] Fix linux banner utsname information Herbert Poetzl
2006-12-05 17:24 ` Herbert Poetzl
2006-12-06 18:32 ` Herbert Poetzl
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