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From: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: passt-dev@passt.top
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] Fixes and cleanups for capability handling
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2022 04:44:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221013044423.2fc0d429@elisabeth> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221011054018.1449506-1-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>

On Tue, 11 Oct 2022 16:40:08 +1100
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:

> Our current handling of capabilities isn't quite right.  In
> particular, drop_caps() attempts to remove capabilities from the
> bounding set, which usually won't work, and even if it does won't have
> the effect we want.
> 
> This series corrects that, as well as making some other fixes and
> cleanups in adjacent code.

Other than those entirely formal details I reported (...and I tried
hard), this looks great to me, and feels like a relief. :)

-- 
Stefano


      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-10-13  2:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-11  5:40 [PATCH 00/10] Fixes and cleanups for capability handling David Gibson
2022-10-11  5:40 ` [PATCH 01/10] test: Move slower tests to end of test run David Gibson
2022-10-11  5:40 ` [PATCH 02/10] pasta: More general way of starting spawned shell as a login shell David Gibson
2022-10-13  2:16   ` Stefano Brivio
2022-10-13  8:22     ` David Gibson
2022-10-13  9:48       ` Stefano Brivio
2022-10-13 23:24         ` David Gibson
2022-10-11  5:40 ` [PATCH 03/10] pasta_start_ns() always ends in parent context David Gibson
2022-10-11  5:40 ` [PATCH 04/10] Remove unhelpful drop_caps() call in pasta_start_ns() David Gibson
2022-10-11  5:40 ` [PATCH 05/10] Clarify various self-isolation steps David Gibson
2022-10-13  2:17   ` Stefano Brivio
2022-10-13  8:31     ` David Gibson
2022-10-13 12:49   ` Stefano Brivio
2022-10-13 23:25     ` David Gibson
2022-10-11  5:40 ` [PATCH 06/10] Replace FWRITE with a function David Gibson
2022-10-13  2:17   ` Stefano Brivio
2022-10-13  8:51     ` David Gibson
2022-10-11  5:40 ` [PATCH 07/10] isolation: Replace drop_caps() with a version that actually does something David Gibson
2022-10-13  2:18   ` Stefano Brivio
2022-10-13  9:44     ` David Gibson
2022-10-13  4:01   ` Stefano Brivio
2022-10-13 13:08     ` Stefano Brivio
2022-10-13 16:37       ` Stefano Brivio
2022-10-13 23:42         ` David Gibson
2022-10-11  5:40 ` [PATCH 08/10] isolation: Prevent any child processes gaining capabilities David Gibson
2022-10-13  2:17   ` Stefano Brivio
2022-10-13  9:33     ` David Gibson
2022-10-13  9:50       ` Stefano Brivio
2022-10-11  5:40 ` [PATCH 09/10] isolation: Only configure UID/GID mappings in userns when spawning shell David Gibson
2022-10-13  2:18   ` Stefano Brivio
2022-10-13  9:36     ` David Gibson
2022-10-11  5:40 ` [PATCH 10/10] Rename pasta_setup_ns() to pasta_spawn_cmd() David Gibson
2022-10-13  2:44 ` Stefano Brivio [this message]

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