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From: Jeff Moyer <[email protected]>
To: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: Keith Busch <[email protected]>,
	 [email protected], [email protected],
	 [email protected],  [email protected], [email protected],
	 Keith Busch <[email protected]>,
	[email protected]
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] iouring: one capable call per iouring instance
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2023 14:22:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> (Jens Axboe's message of "Mon, 4 Dec 2023 12:01:38 -0700")

Jens Axboe <[email protected]> writes:

> On 12/4/23 11:40 AM, Jeff Moyer wrote:
>> Finally, as Jens mentioned, I would expect dropping priviliges to, you
>> know, drop privileges.  I don't think a commit message is going to be
>> enough documentation for a change like this.
>
> Only thing I can think of here is to cache the state in
> task->io_uring->something, and then ensure those are invalidated
> whenever caps change.

I looked through the capable() code, and there is no way that I could
find to be notified of changes.

> It's one of those cases where that's probably only done once, but we
> do need to be able to catch it. Not convinced that caching it at ring
> creation is sane enough, even if it is kind of like opening devices
> before privs are dropped where you could not otherwise re-open them
> later on.

Agreed.

-Jeff


  reply	other threads:[~2023-12-04 19:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-04 17:53 [PATCH 1/2] iouring: one capable call per iouring instance Keith Busch
2023-12-04 17:53 ` [PATCH 2/2] nvme: use uring_cmd sys_admin flag Keith Busch
2023-12-04 18:05 ` [PATCH 1/2] iouring: one capable call per iouring instance Jens Axboe
2023-12-04 18:45   ` Pavel Begunkov
2023-12-05 16:21   ` Kanchan Joshi
2023-12-06 21:09     ` Keith Busch
2023-12-04 18:15 ` Jens Axboe
2023-12-04 18:40 ` Jeff Moyer
2023-12-04 18:57   ` Keith Busch
2023-12-05  4:14     ` Ming Lei
2023-12-05  4:31       ` Keith Busch
2023-12-05  5:25         ` Ming Lei
2023-12-05 15:45           ` Keith Busch
2023-12-06  3:08             ` Ming Lei
2023-12-06 15:31               ` Keith Busch
2023-12-07  1:23                 ` Ming Lei
2023-12-07 17:48                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-12-04 19:01   ` Jens Axboe
2023-12-04 19:22     ` Jeff Moyer [this message]
2023-12-04 19:33       ` Jens Axboe
2023-12-04 19:37       ` Keith Busch

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