Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 2 authors, 2021-03-02

Re: [PATCH bpf 2/4] nsfs: add an ioctl to discover the network namespace cookie

From: Lorenz Bauer <hidden>
Date: 2021-03-02 12:06:27
Also in: bpf, linux-api, lkml, netdev

On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 at 10:04, Christian Brauner
[off-list ref] wrote:
Hey Lorenz,

Just to make sure: is it intentional that any user can retrieve the
cookie associated with any network namespace, i.e. you don't require any
form of permission checking in the owning user namespace of the network
namespace?

Christian
Hi Christian,

I've decided to drop the patch set for now, but that was my intention, yes. Is
there a downside I'm not aware of?

Lorenz

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