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From: ebiederm@xmission•com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us•ibm.com>
Cc: hadi@cyberus•ca, Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
	containers@lists•linux-foundation.org,
	Netfilter Development Mailinglist
	<netfilter-devel@vger•kernel.org>,
	Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech•com>,
	Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr•ibm.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: netfilter: nf_conntrack: add support for "conntrack zones"
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:32:07 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m18waj2zc8.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100223234942.GO3604@count0.beaverton.ibm.com> (Matt Helsley's message of "Tue\, 23 Feb 2010 15\:49\:42 -0800")

Matt Helsley <matthltc@us•ibm.com> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:00:55PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> jamal <hadi@cyberus•ca> writes:
>> 
>> > Added Daniel to the discussion..
>> >
>> > On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 06:07 -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> >> jamal <hadi@cyberus•ca> writes:
>> >
>> >> > Does the point after sys_setns(fd) allow me to do io inside
>> >> > ns <name>? Can i do open() and get a fd from ns <name>?
>> >> 
>> >> Yes.  My intention is that current->nsproxy->net_ns be changed.
>> >> We can already change it in unshare so this is feasible.
>> >
>> > I like it if it makes it as easy as it sounds;-> With lxc,
>> > i essentially have to create a proxy process inside the
>> > namespace that i use unix domain to open fds inside the ns.
>> > Do i still need that?
>> 
>> That point of the mount to hold a persistent reference to the
>> namespace without using a process.
>
> I think technicaly it's still held using processes, only now it's
> much more indirect:
>
> netns <- mount <- mount namespace(s) <- process(es)

True. The practical difference is that it doesn't require a dedicated
process which is a big improvement operationally.

> Using a mount requires keeping names for the namespaces themselves
> in the kernel which is a problem we've largely avoided so far.
> The nscgroup is an example of the messes that creates, I think. And it
> further complicates c/r -- we'd need to checkpoint and recreate the
> names of the namespaces too. So we'll need a namespace for the names of
> the namespaces to make restart reliable won't we? Makes my head spin...

This is strictly different.  It may require a bit of extra support from
checkpoint/restart because it introduces some more user visible objects
but the names themselves are nothing special.  The name that userspace
sees and deals with is the name of the mount point.  No new namespaces
are required.

Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-24  1:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 94+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-14 14:05 RFC: netfilter: nf_conntrack: add support for "conntrack zones" Patrick McHardy
2010-01-14 15:05 ` jamal
2010-01-14 15:37   ` Patrick McHardy
2010-01-14 17:33     ` jamal
2010-01-15 10:15       ` Patrick McHardy
2010-01-15 15:19         ` jamal
2010-02-22 20:46           ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-22 21:55             ` jamal
2010-02-22 23:17               ` Eric W. Biederman
     [not found]                 ` <m1wry46es9.fsf-+imSwln9KH6u2/kzUuoCbdi2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
2010-02-23 13:27                   ` jamal
2010-02-23 14:07                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-23 14:20                       ` jamal
2010-02-23 20:00                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-23 23:09                           ` jamal
2010-02-24  1:43                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-25 20:57                             ` [RFC][PATCH] ns: Syscalls for better namespace sharing control Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-25 21:31                               ` Daniel Lezcano
2010-02-25 21:49                                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-25 22:13                                   ` Daniel Lezcano
2010-02-25 22:31                                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-26 20:35                                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-25 21:46                               ` Matt Helsley
2010-02-25 21:54                                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-26  0:53                                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-26  1:09                               ` Matt Helsley
2010-02-26  1:26                                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-26  3:15                               ` [RFC][PATCH] ns: Syscalls for better namespace sharing control. v2 Eric W. Biederman
     [not found]                                 ` <m18wagy9f3.fsf_-_-+imSwln9KH6u2/kzUuoCbdi2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
2010-03-03 20:29                                   ` Jonathan Corbet
2010-03-03 20:50                                     ` Eric W. Biederman
     [not found]                               ` <m1pr3t2fvl.fsf_-_-+imSwln9KH6u2/kzUuoCbdi2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
2010-02-26 21:13                                 ` [RFC][PATCH] ns: Syscalls for better namespace sharing control Pavel Emelyanov
2010-02-26 21:24                                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-26 21:34                                     ` Pavel Emelyanov
2010-02-26 21:42                                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-26 21:58                                         ` Oren Laadan
2010-02-26 22:16                                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-26 22:52                                             ` Oren Laadan
2010-02-26 23:13                                               ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-27  8:30                                         ` Pavel Emelyanov
2010-02-27  9:04                                           ` Eric W. Biederman
     [not found]                                             ` <m1mxyvrqvk.fsf-+imSwln9KH6u2/kzUuoCbdi2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
2010-02-27  9:21                                               ` Pavel Emelyanov
2010-02-27  9:42                                                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-27 16:16                                                   ` Pavel Emelyanov
2010-02-27 19:08                                                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-27 19:29                                                       ` Pavel Emelyanov
2010-02-27 19:44                                                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-28 22:05                                                           ` Daniel Lezcano
2010-03-01 19:24                                                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-01 21:42                                                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-02 13:10                                                               ` Cedric Le Goater
2010-03-02 15:03                                                             ` Pavel Emelyanov
2010-03-02 15:14                                                               ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-03-02 21:45                                                                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-02 21:19                                                               ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2010-03-02 22:13                                                                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-03  0:07                                                                   ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2010-03-03  0:46                                                                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-03 15:38                                                                       ` Serge E. Hallyn
2010-03-03 19:47                                                                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-04 21:45                                                                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-04 22:55                                                                             ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-03-03 16:50                                                                       ` Pavel Emelyanov
2010-03-03 20:16                                                                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-05 19:18                                                                           ` Pavel Emelyanov
2010-03-05 20:26                                                                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-06 14:47                                                                               ` Daniel Lezcano
     [not found]                                                                                 ` <4B926B1B.5070207-GANU6spQydw@public.gmane.org>
2010-03-06 20:48                                                                                   ` Eric W. Biederman
     [not found]                                                                                     ` <m1aaulyy5c.fsf-+imSwln9KH6u2/kzUuoCbdi2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
2010-03-06 21:26                                                                                       ` Daniel Lezcano
2010-03-08  8:32                                                                                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-08 16:54                                                                                           ` Daniel Lezcano
2010-03-08 17:29                                                                                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-08 19:57                                                                                               ` Daniel Lezcano
2010-03-08 20:24                                                                                                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-08 20:42                                                                                                   ` Daniel Lezcano
2010-03-08 20:47                                                                                                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-08 21:12                                                                                                       ` Daniel Lezcano
2010-03-08 21:25                                                                                                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-08 21:49                                                                                                           ` Serge E. Hallyn
2010-03-08 22:24                                                                                                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-09 10:03                                                                                                           ` Daniel Lezcano
2010-03-09 10:13                                                                                                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-09 10:26                                                                                                               ` Daniel Lezcano
2010-03-10 21:16                                                                                                           ` Daniel Lezcano
2010-03-08 17:07                                                                                           ` Serge E. Hallyn
2010-03-08 17:35                                                                                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-08 17:47                                                                                               ` Serge E. Hallyn
2010-03-03 20:59                                                             ` Oren Laadan
2010-03-03 21:05                                                               ` Eric W. Biederman
     [not found]                                     ` <m1bpfbwuze.fsf-+imSwln9KH6u2/kzUuoCbdi2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
2010-02-26 21:35                                       ` Pavel Emelyanov
2010-02-26 21:49                                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-02-23 23:49                           ` RFC: netfilter: nf_conntrack: add support for "conntrack zones" Matt Helsley
2010-02-24  1:32                             ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2010-02-24  1:39                               ` Serge E. Hallyn
2010-01-14 18:32   ` Ben Greear
2010-01-15 15:03     ` jamal

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