[PATCH RFC 00/48] Add namespace support for audit
This patchset try to add namespace support for audit.
I choose to assign audit to the user namespace.
Right now,there are six kinds of namespaces, such as
net, mount, ipc, pid, uts and user. the first five
namespaces have special usage. the audit isn't suitable to
belong to these five namespaces, so the user namespace
may be the best choice.
Through I decide to make audit related resources per user
namespace, but audit uses netlink to communicate between kernel
space and user space, and the netlink is a private resource
of per net namespace. So we need the capability to allow the
netlink sockets to communicate with each other in the same user
namespace even they are in different net namespace. [PATCH 2/48]
does this job, it adds a new function "compare" for per netlink
table to compare two sockets. it means the netlink protocols can
has its own compare fuction, For other protocols, two netlink
sockets are different if they belong to the different net namespace.
For audit protocol, two sockets can be the same even they in different
net namespace,we use user namespace not net namespace to make the
decision.
There is one point that some people may dislike,in [PATCH 1/48],
the kernel side audit netlink socket is created only when we create
the first netns for the userns, and this userns will hold the netns
until we destroy this userns.
The other patches just make the audit related resources per
user namespace.
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