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From: ebiederm-aS9lmoZGLiVWk0Htik3J/w@public•gmane.org (Eric W. Biederman)
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/11] SYSCTL: export root and set handling routines
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:37:19 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1pqfkecw0.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EEF2C9A.8000403-bzQdu9zFT3WakBO8gow8eQ@public.gmane.org> (Stanislav Kinsbursky's message of "Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:22:50 +0400")

Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky-bzQdu9zFT3WakBO8gow8eQ@public•gmane.org> writes:

>> In practice what this means is that register_net_sysctl_table should
>> work for any sysctl file anywhere under /proc/sys.  I think
>> register_net_sysctl_table is the right solution for your problem.  The
>> only possible caveat I can think of is you might hit Al's performance
>> optimizations and need to create a common empty directory first with
>> register_sysctl_paths.
>
> Sorry, but I forgot to mention one more important goal I would like to achieve:
> I want to manage sysctl's variables in context of mount owner, but not viewer one.
> IOW imagine, that we have one two network namespaces: "A" and "B". Both of them
> have it's own net sysctl's root. And we have per-net sysctl "/proc/sys/var".
> And for ns "A" variable was set to 0, and for "B" - to 1.
> And B's "/proc/sys/var" is accessible from "A" namespace
> ("/chroot_path/proc/sys/var" for example).
> With this configuration I want to read "1" from both namespaces:
> owner "B" (/proc/sys/var) and "A" ("/chroot_path/proc/sys/var").
> Looks like simple using of register_net_sysctl_table doesn't allow me this,
> because current net ns is used. And to achieve this goal I need my own sysctl
> set for SUNRPC like it was done for network namespaces.

Doing that independently of the rest of the sysctls is pretty horrible
and confusing to users.   What I am planning might suit your needs and
if not we need to talk some more about how to get the vfs to do
something reasonable.

>> That said since I am in the process of rewriting things some of this
>> may change a little bit, but hopefully not in ways that immediately
>> effect the users of register_sysctl_table.
>>
>> Don't use register_net_sysctl_ro_table.   I think what the implementors
>> actually wanted was register_net_sysctl_table(&init_net, ...) and didn't
>> know it.
>>
>> Don't put subdirectories in your sysctl tables.  Use a ctl_path to
>> specify the entire directory where the files should show up.  Generally
>> the code is easier to read in that form, and the code is simpler to deal
>> with if we don't have to worry about directories.
>>
>> Don't play with the sysctl roots.  It is my intention to completely kill
>> them off and replace them by moving the per net sysctl tree under
>> /proc/<pid>/sys/.   Leaving behind symlinks in /proc/sys/net and I guess
>> ultimately in /proc/sys/sunrpc/ and /proc/sys/fs/nfs...  Which actually
>> seems to better describe your mental model.
>>
>
>
> I'm afraid, that this approach this not allow me to achieve the goal, mentioned
> above, because current->nsproxy->net_ns will be used during lookup.
> Or maybe I misunderstanding here?

What I hope to do is to stop using current, and to behave like
/proc/net.  Aka a per process view under /proc/<pid>/sys that matches
the namespaces of the specified process.  

The VFS really hates my use of current in the sysctl case, and I intend
to stop.

I need to run and catch my plane.  It doesn't look like I will have
access to this email address for the next two weeks :(  

Eric
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-12-19 16:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-14 11:44 [PATCH 00/11] SUNRPC: make sysctl per network namespcase context Stanislav Kinsbursky
2011-12-14 11:44 ` [PATCH 01/11] SYSCTL: export root and set handling routines Stanislav Kinsbursky
     [not found]   ` <20111214104449.3991.61989.stgit-bi+AKbBUZKagILUCTcTcHdKyNwTtLsGr@public.gmane.org>
2011-12-17 22:25     ` Eric W. Biederman
     [not found]       ` <m1bor6rg39.fsf-+imSwln9KH6u2/kzUuoCbdi2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
2011-12-19  8:56         ` Stanislav Kinsbursky
2011-12-19 10:15           ` Eric W. Biederman
     [not found]             ` <m18vm8g951.fsf-+imSwln9KH6u2/kzUuoCbdi2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
2011-12-19 12:22               ` Stanislav Kinsbursky
     [not found]                 ` <4EEF2C9A.8000403-bzQdu9zFT3WakBO8gow8eQ@public.gmane.org>
2011-12-19 16:37                   ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
     [not found]                     ` <m1pqfkecw0.fsf-+imSwln9KH6u2/kzUuoCbdi2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
2011-12-19 17:24                       ` Stanislav Kinsbursky
     [not found]                         ` <4EEF7364.8000407-bzQdu9zFT3WakBO8gow8eQ@public.gmane.org>
2012-01-03  3:49                           ` Eric W. Biederman
     [not found]                             ` <m1vcotigyb.fsf-+imSwln9KH6u2/kzUuoCbdi2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
2012-01-10 10:38                               ` Stanislav Kinsbursky
     [not found]                                 ` <4F0C150F.1020007-bzQdu9zFT3WakBO8gow8eQ@public.gmane.org>
2012-01-10 22:39                                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-11  9:47                                     ` Stanislav Kinsbursky
2012-01-11 17:21                                       ` Eric W. Biederman
     [not found]                                         ` <m1sjjm40k8.fsf-+imSwln9KH6u2/kzUuoCbdi2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
2012-01-11 18:02                                           ` Stanislav Kinsbursky
2012-01-11 19:36                                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-12  9:17                                               ` Stanislav Kinsbursky
2011-12-14 11:44 ` [PATCH 02/11] SUNRPC: use syctl path instead of dummy parent table Stanislav Kinsbursky
2011-12-14 11:45 ` [PATCH 04/11] SUNRPC: per-net sysctl's set introduced Stanislav Kinsbursky
2011-12-14 11:45 ` [PATCH 05/11] SUNRPC: register debug sysctl table per network namespace Stanislav Kinsbursky
2011-12-14 11:45 ` [PATCH 06/11] SUNRPC: register xs_tunables " Stanislav Kinsbursky
2011-12-14 11:45 ` [PATCH 07/11] SUNRPC: xs tunables per network namespace introduced Stanislav Kinsbursky
2011-12-14 11:45 ` [PATCH 08/11] SUNRPC: use per-net xs tunables instead of static ones Stanislav Kinsbursky
     [not found] ` <20111214103602.3991.20990.stgit-bi+AKbBUZKagILUCTcTcHdKyNwTtLsGr@public.gmane.org>
2011-12-14 11:45   ` [PATCH 03/11] SUNRPC: sysctl root for debug table introduced Stanislav Kinsbursky
2011-12-14 11:45   ` [PATCH 09/11] SUNRPC: remove xs_tcp_fin_timeout variable Stanislav Kinsbursky
2011-12-14 11:46 ` [PATCH 10/11] SUNRPC: allow debug flags modifications only from init_net Stanislav Kinsbursky
2011-12-14 11:46 ` [PATCH 11/11] SUNRPC: sysctl table for rpc_debug introduced Stanislav Kinsbursky
2012-02-07 11:44 ` [PATCH 00/11] SUNRPC: make sysctl per network namespcase context Stanislav Kinsbursky
     [not found]   ` <4F310E8E.5040608-bzQdu9zFT3WakBO8gow8eQ@public.gmane.org>
2012-02-07 13:21     ` Myklebust, Trond

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