Re: [PATCH v3 00/25] user_namespace: introduce fsid mappings

[Serge E. Hallyn]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 01:35:58PM -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 03:33:46PM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > With fsid mappings we can solve this by writing an id mapping of 0
> > 100000 100000 and an fsid mapping of 0 300000 100000. On filesystem
> > access the kernel will now lookup the mapping for 300000 in the fsid
> > mapping tables of the user namespace. And since such a mapping exists,
> > the corresponding files will have correct ownership.
> 
> So if I have
> 
> /proc/self/uid_map: 0 100000 100000
> /proc/self/fsid_map: 1000 1000 1

Oh, sorry.  Your explanation in 20/25 i think set me straight, though I need
to think through a few more examples.

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> 3. If I create a new file, as nsuid 1000, what will be the inode owning kuid?

(Note - I edited the quoted txt above to be more precise)

I'm still not quite clear on this.  I believe the fsid mapping will take
precedence so it'll be uid 1000 ?  Per mount behavior would be nice there,
but perhaps unwieldy.