Re: [PATCH] Trace event for capable().

[Serge Hallyn <serge@xxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original message -----
> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 3:33 PM, richard -rw- weinberger
> <richard.weinberger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@xxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > > Add a simple trace event for capable().
> > > 
> > > There's been a lot of discussion around capable(), and there
> > > are plenty of tools to help reduce capabilities' usage from
> > > userspace. A major gap however is that it's almost impossible
> > > to see or verify which bits are requested from either userspace
> > > or in the kernel.
> > > 
> > > This patch adds a minimal tracer that will print out which
> > > CAPs are requested and whether the request was granted.
> > 
> > Can we please have support for user namespaces?
> > At least idicate whether the current namespace is init_user_ns or not.
> 
> that was the main reason for sending this out already - that should be
> trivial to add to the trace event, but I haven't looked at namespaces
> yet myself. I'll check it out.
> 

right, trivial to add, but either go through linux-next or wait for Eric's patchset to move from there to Linus' tree.  Print the from_kuid(&init_user_ns, current_uid()), and if not in init_user_ns then also print the ns creator and task uid in his own ns.

I don't think you need to do that right now.

> Auke
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