[PATCH 0/3] Allow initializing the kernfs node's secctx based on its parent

Tejun Heo tj at kernel.org
Mon Jan 14 15:50:19 UTC 2019


Hello,

On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 10:14:32AM +0100, Ondrej Mosnacek wrote:
> I'm not sure what are the exact needs of the container people, but
> IIUC the goal is to make it possible to have a subtree labeled with a
> specific label (that gets inherited by newly created cgroups in that
> subtree by default) so that container processes do not need to be
> given permissions for the whole cgroupfs tree.
> 
> I'm cc'ing Dan Walsh, who should be able to explain the use cases in
> more details. Dan, this is related to the cgroupfs labeling problem
> ([1] and [2]). See [3] for the root of this discussion.

Let's wait for Dan to respond but I'm pretty skeptical that this is a
good direction.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun



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