Re: [PATCH] ipc: add set_ownership() and permissions() callbacks for posix mqueue sysctl

[CGEL <cgel.zte@gmail.com>]

O Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 08:09:32AM -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> On 2021-07-28 20:06, cgel.zte@gmail.com wrote:
> > This patch adds a ctl_table_set per ipc namespace, and also the
> > set_ownership() and permissions() callbacks for the new ctl_table_root
> > for ipc mqueue syscgtls.
>                   ^^ sysctls
> 
> This makes sense to me, just some nits below.
> 
> Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
> 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ran Xiaokai <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn>
> > ---
> ...
> > +static int set_permissions(struct ctl_table_header *head,
> > +				struct ctl_table *table)
> > +{
> 
> Please use curly braces for the else.
> 
> > +	return (mode << 6) | (mode << 3) | mode;
> > +}
> > +
> > +static void set_ownership(struct ctl_table_header *head,
> > +				struct ctl_table *table,
> > +				kuid_t *uid, kgid_t *gid)
> > +{
> > +	struct ipc_namespace *ipc_ns =
> > +		container_of(head->set, struct ipc_namespace, mq_set);
> > +	struct user_namespace *user_ns = ipc_ns->user_ns;
> > +	kuid_t ns_root_uid;
> > +	kgid_t ns_root_gid;
> > +
> > +	ns_root_uid = make_kuid(user_ns, 0);
> > +	if (uid_valid(ns_root_uid))
> > +		*uid = ns_root_uid;
> > +
> > +	ns_root_gid = make_kgid(user_ns, 0);
> > +	if (gid_valid(ns_root_gid))
> > +		*gid = ns_root_gid;
> > +}
> 
> Could set_permissions() and set_ownership() be factored such that we can
> avoid duplicated code between ipc and net ns? Something like:
> 
> void set_permissions(struct ctl_table_header *head, struct ctl_table *table)
> {
>     struct ipc_namespace *ipc_ns = container_of(head->set, struct
> ipc_namespace, mq_set);
>     set_permissions_common(ipc_ns->user_ns);
> }
> 
> Thanks,
> Davidlohr

Hi Davidlohr

Thanks for your comments.
I will sent a v2 patch together with Christian's comments.