Re: PATCH -mm] fix create_new_namespaces() return value

From: Badari Pulavarty
Date: Mon Jun 11 2007 - 12:22:56 EST




Cedric Le Goater wrote:

The following patch modifies create_new_namespaces() to also use the errors returned by the copy_*_ns routines and not to systematically return ENOMEM.


In my initial version, I did same. It doesn't work :(

copy_*_ns() routines doesn't return any errors. All they return is NULL in case of a
failure + with the exception of copy_mnt_ns, there are no other failure cases.
So, there is no way to find out why the copy_*_ns() routines failed from create_new_namespaces().
If you really really want to do this, change all copy_*_ns() routines to returns meaningful
errors instead of NULL.



Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/nsproxy.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Index: 2.6.22-rc4-mm2/kernel/nsproxy.c
===================================================================
--- 2.6.22-rc4-mm2.orig/kernel/nsproxy.c
+++ 2.6.22-rc4-mm2/kernel/nsproxy.c
@@ -58,30 +58,41 @@ static struct nsproxy *create_new_namesp
struct fs_struct *new_fs)
{
struct nsproxy *new_nsp;
+ int err;

new_nsp = clone_nsproxy(tsk->nsproxy);
if (!new_nsp)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);

new_nsp->mnt_ns = copy_mnt_ns(flags, tsk->nsproxy->mnt_ns, new_fs);
- if (IS_ERR(new_nsp->mnt_ns))
+ if (IS_ERR(new_nsp->mnt_ns)) {
+ err = PTR_ERR(new_nsp->mnt_ns);
goto out_ns;
+ }

new_nsp->uts_ns = copy_utsname(flags, tsk->nsproxy->uts_ns);
- if (IS_ERR(new_nsp->uts_ns))
+ if (IS_ERR(new_nsp->uts_ns)) {
+ err = PTR_ERR(new_nsp->uts_ns);
goto out_uts;
+ }

new_nsp->ipc_ns = copy_ipcs(flags, tsk->nsproxy->ipc_ns);
- if (IS_ERR(new_nsp->ipc_ns))
+ if (IS_ERR(new_nsp->ipc_ns)) {
+ err = PTR_ERR(new_nsp->ipc_ns);
goto out_ipc;
+ }

new_nsp->pid_ns = copy_pid_ns(flags, tsk->nsproxy->pid_ns);
- if (IS_ERR(new_nsp->pid_ns))
+ if (IS_ERR(new_nsp->pid_ns)) {
+ err = PTR_ERR(new_nsp->pid_ns);
goto out_pid;
+ }

new_nsp->user_ns = copy_user_ns(flags, tsk->nsproxy->user_ns);
- if (IS_ERR(new_nsp->user_ns))
+ if (IS_ERR(new_nsp->user_ns)) {
+ err = PTR_ERR(new_nsp->user_ns);

Hmm.. copy_user_ns() ? I don't see this in rc4-mm2.

Thanks,
Badari


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