"Serge E. Hallyn" <[email protected]> writes:
>
> Hey Eric,
>
> the patches look nice.
>
> The hand-forcing of the passed-in net_ns into a copy of current->nsproxy
> does make it seem like nsproxy may not be the best choice of what to
> pass in. Doesn't only net_sysctl_root->lookup() look at the argument?
Yes. Although I call it from __register_sysctl_paths.
> But I assume you don't want to be more general than sending in a
> nsproxy so as to dissuade abuse of this interface for needlessly complex
> sysctl interfaces?
A bit of that. I would love to pass in a task_struct so you can use
anything from a task. The trouble is I don't have any task_structs or
nsproxys with the proper value at the point where I am first setting
this up. Further I have to have the full sysctl lookup working or I
could not call sysctl_check.
> (Well I expect that'll become clear once the the patches using this
> come out.)
>
> Are you planning to use this infrastructure for the uts and ipc
> sysctls as well?
Yes. Where it comes in especially useful, is I can move /proc/sys
to /proc/sys/<tgid>/task/<pid>/sys. And get a particular processes
view of sysctl.
We also get a little more reuse of common functions.
Otherwise Pavel does have a point that using this for uts and ipc
is not a savings lines of code wise.
After having seen Pavel changes I am asking myself if there is a sane
way to remove the ctl_name argument from the ctl_path.
Anyway where I am with the nsproxy question was that I don't
see anything easily better. What I have works and gets the job
done, and doesn't have any module unload races or holes where a sloppy
programmer can mess up the sysctl tree. We needed a solution.
Trying any harder to find something better would take ages. So
I figured this implementation was good enough.
Eric
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