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authorDmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>2018-07-20 21:56:48 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2018-07-20 23:44:35 -0700
commit5f81880d5204ee2388fd9a75bb850ccd526885b7 (patch)
tree7f7c7d943e679c97d7bf28f89b499a22109c07ff /include/linux/kobject.h
parentkernfs: allow creating kernfs objects with arbitrary uid/gid (diff)
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sysfs, kobject: allow creating kobject belonging to arbitrary users
Normally kobjects and their sysfs representation belong to global root, however it is not necessarily the case for objects in separate namespaces. For example, objects in separate network namespace logically belong to the container's root and not global root. This change lays groundwork for allowing network namespace objects ownership to be transferred to container's root user by defining get_ownership() callback in ktype structure and using it in sysfs code to retrieve desired uid/gid when creating sysfs objects for given kobject. Co-Developed-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/kobject.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/kobject.h4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kobject.h b/include/linux/kobject.h
index 7f6f93c3df9c..b49ff230beba 100644
--- a/include/linux/kobject.h
+++ b/include/linux/kobject.h
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
#include <linux/wait.h>
#include <linux/atomic.h>
#include <linux/workqueue.h>
+#include <linux/uidgid.h>
#define UEVENT_HELPER_PATH_LEN 256
#define UEVENT_NUM_ENVP 32 /* number of env pointers */
@@ -114,6 +115,8 @@ extern struct kobject * __must_check kobject_get_unless_zero(
extern void kobject_put(struct kobject *kobj);
extern const void *kobject_namespace(struct kobject *kobj);
+extern void kobject_get_ownership(struct kobject *kobj,
+ kuid_t *uid, kgid_t *gid);
extern char *kobject_get_path(struct kobject *kobj, gfp_t flag);
struct kobj_type {
@@ -122,6 +125,7 @@ struct kobj_type {
struct attribute **default_attrs;
const struct kobj_ns_type_operations *(*child_ns_type)(struct kobject *kobj);
const void *(*namespace)(struct kobject *kobj);
+ void (*get_ownership)(struct kobject *kobj, kuid_t *uid, kgid_t *gid);
};
struct kobj_uevent_env {