PID's Mapping

Richard Guy Briggs rgb at redhat.com
Fri Apr 29 14:03:14 UTC 2016


On 16/04/29, Deepika Sundar wrote:
> Thank You for the valuable Response RGB.
> 
> As you mentioned in the above statement is what I was looking for, "There
> is a mapping from the PID in the initial PID namespace to its PID in a
> child PID namespace".
> As per your context, Is it initial PID namespace is the one which is get
> created in the "HOST"?

If I understand your question, the first namespace of any type that is
created is the initial namespace.  This set of 6 different namespace
types are the default that are created on a newly booted kernel.

> Please provide me details about how to enter into INIT-PID namespace to get
> the mappings of child PID Namespace.

Generally, the init process (yes, the term "init" is a bit overloaded
here...) with PID 1 in the initial PID namespace is the starting point
for creating all other processes.  (Some distributions have switched over
from using "init" to using "systemd" in this role.)  If you are already
that process or you are a process that is a child of that process and
still in all the initial namespaces, you are already there.  If you are
a process that is in a child PID namespace, you can't see any parent or
peer namespaces.  This is intentional.

> -DEEPIKA
> 
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 8:07 AM, Richard Guy Briggs <rgb at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 16/04/28, Deepika Sundar wrote:
> > > Thank you for the replies.
> > >
> > > As per My understanding Root as Admin it has the control over all the
> > > namespaces.If this is correct,
> >
> > As per my previous email, not necessarily.
> >
> > > (i) Is that root should have access to all namespace relate info,
> > >     for ex: PID's in the host is mapped to what PID's in the Namespace?
> >
> > The initial PID namespace knows about all the PIDs on the machine since
> > the PID namespaces are hierarchical.  There is a mapping from the PID in
> > the initial PID namespace to its PID in a child PID namespace.  A child
> > PID namespace should never be able to find out what its PID is in a
> > parent PID namespace.
> >
> > >   if not ,
> > >
> > > (ii) Init should have only access to his own process and should not have
> > > access to other namespace.
> >
> > See above.
> >
> > > Is this design limitation (or) Is it designed for better security ?
> >
> > Both.
> >
> > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 4:49 PM, Deepika Sundar <
> > sundar.deepika18 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > As per rule root(admin) is the one who is monitoring the system's
> > > > information .so,there must exist some namespace information in proc
> > field
> > > > for the namespace related PID in global.Is this the way I'm
> > approaching to
> > > > the namespace related stuffs is correct?
> > > >
> > > > -Deepika
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 12:24 PM, Deepika Sundar <
> > > > sundar.deepika18 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Yeah.
> > > >> When the PID's which are in the namespace application has different
> > PID
> > > >> compared to Global PID.There would be some means to  map the PID's in
> > the
> > > >> kernel level.Can anyone suggest How it can be mapped?
> > > >>
> > > >> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 6:03 PM, Steve Grubb <sgrubb at redhat.com>
> > wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>> On Wednesday, April 20, 2016 10:06:38 AM Deepika Sundar wrote:
> > > >>> > Is there any way that can be suggested as to map PID's of
> > namespace in
> > > >>> > global?
> > > >>>
> > > >>> This is on the TODO list. We have been kicking around several ideas
> > but
> > > >>> have
> > > >>> not come to a conclusion about what exactly needs to be done. The
> > upshot
> > > >>> of
> > > >>> this is that basically containers have no support.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> -Steve
> > > >>>
> > > >>>
> > > >>> > On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 8:47 PM, Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com>
> > > >>> wrote:
> > > >>> > > Please ask your question on the mailing list so that everyone can
> > > >>> benefit.
> > > >>> > >
> > > >>> > > On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 1:34 AM, Deepika Sundar
> > > >>> > >
> > > >>> > > <sundar.deepika18 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >>> > > > How it can be achieved ,Can I get any idea on this?
> > > >>> > > >
> > > >>> > > > On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 4:12 AM, Paul Moore <
> > paul at paul-moore.com>
> > > >>> wrote:
> > > >>> > > >> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 1:43 AM, sowndarya kumar
> > > >>> > > >>
> > > >>> > > >> <sowndarya.nadar at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >>> > > >> > Hi
> > > >>> > > >> >
> > > >>> > > >> > Is there any way to map the PID's seen in the namespace
> > > >>> application
> > > >>> > >
> > > >>> > > with
> > > >>> > >
> > > >>> > > >> > the
> > > >>> > > >> > PID's seen in global?
> > > >>> > > >> > If it can be done please provide the documentation or idea
> > on
> > > >>> how it
> > > >>> > >
> > > >>> > > can
> > > >>> > >
> > > >>> > > >> > be
> > > >>> > > >> > done.
> > > >>> > > >>
> > > >>> > > >> In general the audit subsystem doesn't pay attention to
> > > >>> namespaces,
> > > >>> > > >> all PIDs reported to userspace are reported with respect to
> > the
> > > >>> init
> > > >>> > > >> namespace.
> > > >>> > > >>
> > > >>> > > >> --
> > > >>> > > >> paul moore
> > > >>> > > >> www.paul-moore.com
> > > >>> > > >>
> > > >>> > > >> --
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> > > >>> > > >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-audit
> > > >>> > >
> > > >>> > > --
> > > >>> > > paul moore
> > > >>> > > www.paul-moore.com
> > > >>>
> > > >>>
> > > >>
> > > >
> >
> > - RGB
> >
> > --
> > Richard Guy Briggs <rgb at redhat.com>
> > Kernel Security Engineering, Base Operating Systems, Red Hat
> > Remote, Ottawa, Canada
> > Voice: +1.647.777.2635, Internal: (81) 32635
> >

- RGB

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