[RFC][PATCH 2/4] sunrpc: Use utsnamespaces

[Chuck Lever]

On Jan 6, 2009, at Jan 6, 2009, 3:02 PM, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting Matt Helsley (matthltc at us.ibm.com):
>> We can often specify the UTS namespace to use when starting an RPC  
>> client.
>> However sometimes no UTS namespace is available (specifically  
>> during system
>> shutdown as the last NFS mount in a container is unmounted) so fall
>> back to the initial UTS namespace.
>
> So what happens if we take this patch and do nothing else?

I thought the point of this was to prevent incorrect container  
nodenames from leaking onto the network.

> The only potential problem situation will be rpc requests
> made on behalf of a container in which the last task has
> exited, right?  So let's say a container did an nfs mount
> and then exits, causing an nfs umount request.
>
> That umount request will now be sent with the wrong nodename.
> Does that actually cause problems, will the server use the
> nodename to try and determine the client sending the request?
>
> thanks,
> -serge
>
>> Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc at us.ibm.com>
>> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg at fr.ibm.com>
>> Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org>
>> Cc: linux-nfs at vger.kernel.org
>> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust at fys.uio.no>
>> Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever at oracle.com>
>> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com>
>> Cc: Linux Containers <containers at lists.osdl.org>
>>
>> ---
>> net/sunrpc/clnt.c |    7 +++++--
>> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> Index: linux-2.6.28/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
>> ===================================================================
>> --- linux-2.6.28.orig/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
>> +++ linux-2.6.28/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
>> @@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ static struct rpc_clnt * rpc_new_client(
>> 	struct rpc_version	*version;
>> 	struct rpc_clnt		*clnt = NULL;
>> 	struct rpc_auth		*auth;
>> +	struct new_utsname	*uts_ns = init_utsname();
>> 	int err;
>> 	size_t len;
>>
>> @@ -213,10 +214,12 @@ static struct rpc_clnt * rpc_new_client(
>> 	}
>>
>> 	/* save the nodename */
>> -	clnt->cl_nodelen = strlen(init_utsname()->nodename);
>> +	if (current->nsproxy != NULL)
>> +		uts_ns = utsname();
>> +	clnt->cl_nodelen = strlen(uts_ns->nodename);
>> 	if (clnt->cl_nodelen > UNX_MAXNODENAME)
>> 		clnt->cl_nodelen = UNX_MAXNODENAME;
>> -	memcpy(clnt->cl_nodename, init_utsname()->nodename, clnt- 
>> >cl_nodelen);
>> +	memcpy(clnt->cl_nodename, uts_ns->nodename, clnt->cl_nodelen);
>> 	rpc_register_client(clnt);
>> 	return clnt;
>>
>>
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Chuck Lever
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