[PATCH 3/4] nfsd: disable usermode helper client tracker in container

[Stanislav Kinsbursky]

This tracker uses khelper kthread to execute binaries.
Execution itself is done from kthread context - i.e. global root is used.
This is not suitable for containers with own root.
So, disable this tracker for a while.

Note: one of possible solutions can be pass "init" callback to khelper, which
will swap root to desired one.

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c |    6 ++++++
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c
index ba6fdd4..e0ae1cf 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c
@@ -1185,6 +1185,12 @@ bin_to_hex_dup(const unsigned char *src, int srclen)
 static int
 nfsd4_umh_cltrack_init(struct net __attribute__((unused)) *net)
 {
+	/* XXX: The usermode helper s not working in container yet. */
+	if (net != &init_net) {
+		WARN(1, KERN_ERR "NFSD: attempt to initialize umh client "
+			"tracking in a container!\n");
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
 	return nfsd4_umh_cltrack_upcall("init", NULL, NULL);
 }
 

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