Quoting Tejun Heo (t...@kernel.org):
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Serge Hallyn <serge.hal...@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > This doesn't delegate it into the container. It allows me, on the host,
> > to set the cgroup for a container.
>
> Hmmm? I'm a bit confused. Isn't the description saying that the patch
> allows pseudo-root in userns to change cgroup membership even if it
> isn't actually root?
>
> Besides, I find the whole check rather bogus and would actually much
> prefer just nuking the check and just follow the standard permission
> checks.
Can we please nuke it like this then?
>From b840083ec8fa1f0645ae925c79db3dc51edd019c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Serge Hallyn <serge.hal...@ubuntu.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 01:34:00 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] device_cgroup: remove can_attach
It is really only wanting to duplicate a check which is already done by the
cgroup subsystem.
With this patch, user jdoe still cannot move pid 1 into a devices cgroup
he owns, but now he can move his own other tasks into devices cgroups.
Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hal...@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Aristeu Rozanski <a...@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <t...@kernel.org>
---
security/device_cgroup.c | 11 -----------
1 file changed, 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/security/device_cgroup.c b/security/device_cgroup.c
index efc6f68..a37c054 100644
--- a/security/device_cgroup.c
+++ b/security/device_cgroup.c
@@ -64,16 +64,6 @@ static inline struct dev_cgroup *task_devcgroup(struct
task_struct *task)
struct cgroup_subsys devices_subsys;
-static int devcgroup_can_attach(struct cgroup_subsys_state *new_css,
- struct cgroup_taskset *set)
-{
- struct task_struct *task = cgroup_taskset_first(set);
-
- if (current != task && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
- return -EPERM;
- return 0;
-}
-
/*
* called under devcgroup_mutex
*/
@@ -698,7 +688,6 @@ static struct cftype dev_cgroup_files[] = {
struct cgroup_subsys devices_subsys = {
.name = "devices",
- .can_attach = devcgroup_can_attach,
.css_alloc = devcgroup_css_alloc,
.css_free = devcgroup_css_free,
.css_online = devcgroup_online,
--
1.8.3.2
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