[PATCH v1 0/3] cgroup: allow for unprivileged management

From: Aleksa Sarai
Date: Mon Jul 18 2016 - 12:18:27 EST


This is a rewrite of my old cgroup unprivileged subtree management[1]
patchset. Rather than magically creating a new cgroup, I've instead
modified kernfs so that we can have custom permission hooks. The
following only applies to cgroupv2 trees, due to the fact that cgroupv1
doesn't explicitly require that cgroups be hierarchical.

You can only create a new subtree if you either would traditionally have
write access, or you are attempting to create a new cgroup under the
root cgroup of your current cgroup namespace (and you have CAP_SYS_ADMIN
in the user namespace pinned by the cgroup namespace). This means that
users would only be able to create sub-cgroups of their current cgroup
using this method.

In addition, I relaxed one of the ancestor restrictions so that you can
move to direct descendants of the current cgroup without needing to be
able to join the current cgroup you're in (because that restriction
doesn't make much sense).

[1]: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=146319604331859

Cc: dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Aleksa Sarai (3):
kernfs: add support for custom per-sb permission hooks
cgroup: allow for unprivileged subtree management
cgroup: relax common ancestor restriction for direct descendants

fs/kernfs/inode.c | 13 +++++++-
include/linux/kernfs.h | 3 ++
kernel/cgroup.c | 86 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
3 files changed, 93 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

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