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From: Li Zefan <lizf@cn•fujitsu.com>
To: Grzegorz Nosek <root@localdomain•pl>
Cc: containers@lists•osdl.org, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] IP address restricting cgroup subsystem
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:36:35 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49646993.6080802@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090107073831.GA23648@megiteam.pl>

Grzegorz Nosek wrote:
> On śro, sty 07, 2009 at 02:01:10 +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
>> CC: netdev@vger•kernel.org
>>
>> I'll review the cgroup part if this patch is regarded as useful.
>>
>> Grzegorz Nosek wrote:
>>> This is a very simple cgroup subsystem to restrict IP addresses used
>>> by member processes. Currently it is limited to IPv4 only but IPv6 (or
>>> other protocols) should be easy to implement.
>>>
>>> IP addresses are write-once (via /cgroup/.../ipaddr.ipv4 in dotted-quad
>> Why they should be write-once ?
> 
> No real (technical) reason. Making it read-write would be fine with me.
> I wanted to make the restriction a one-way road but I guess I can police
> that in userspace (simply don't write anything to the file twice).
> 

But seems the patch makes it impossible to re-allow a restricted task to
be binded to INADDR_ANY.

> However, I think that the restriction should be inherited, so that if
> CG1 is bound to e.g. 10.0.0.1, CG1/CG2 must be bound to the same
> address. But what would I do then with descendant cgroups? Leave them as
> is (breaking the inheritance)? Find them all and change their bound
> address behind their back (do we have an API for that?)?
> 

Firstly, is inheritance necessary ?

If yes, then how about:

The root cgroup is read-only, so the tasks in it always bind to INADDR_ANY.
For other cgroups, write is allowed only if it has no children and the
parent is INADDR_ANY.

> I guess I have the same problem right now, anyway (only once instead of
> multiple times), so I'd really appreciate your input on this.
> 
> Best regards,
>  Grzegorz Nosek
> 
> 



  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-07  8:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20090106230554.GB25228@eskarina.localdomain.pl>
     [not found] ` <20090106230554.GB25228-IaEwMO9oKu/77SC2UrCW1JJg/dWx8T/9@public.gmane.org>
2009-01-07  6:01   ` [RFC][PATCH] IP address restricting cgroup subsystem Li Zefan
     [not found]     ` <49644526.8030205-BthXqXjhjHXQFUHtdCDX3A@public.gmane.org>
2009-01-07  7:38       ` Grzegorz Nosek
2009-01-07  8:36         ` Li Zefan [this message]
2009-01-07  9:16           ` Grzegorz Nosek
2009-01-07  9:33             ` Li Zefan
2009-01-07  9:37               ` Grzegorz Nosek
2009-01-09 21:38               ` [Devel] " Paul Menage
2009-01-10  4:50                 ` Li Zefan
2009-01-10 16:14                   ` Paul Menage
2009-01-12  2:20                     ` Li Zefan
2009-01-14  2:07                       ` Paul Menage
2009-01-14  2:47                         ` Li Zefan
2009-01-14  2:50                           ` Paul Menage

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