[libvirt] [PATCH v3 02/12] LXC: enable user namespace only when user set the uidmap

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:06:46PM +0800, Gao feng wrote:
> User namespace will be enabled only when the idmap exist
> in configuration.
> 
> If you want disable user namespace,just remove these
> elements from XML.
> 
> If kernel doesn't support user namespace and idmap exist
> in configuration file, libvirt lxc will start failed and
> return "Kernel doesn't support user namespace" message.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gao feng <gaofeng at cn.fujitsu.com>
> ---
>  src/lxc/lxc_container.c | 24 ++++++++++++++----------
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/lxc/lxc_container.c b/src/lxc/lxc_container.c
> index c74e3ca..618252c 100644
> --- a/src/lxc/lxc_container.c
> +++ b/src/lxc/lxc_container.c
> @@ -2116,9 +2114,15 @@ int lxcContainerStart(virDomainDefPtr def,
>  
>      cflags = CLONE_NEWPID|CLONE_NEWNS|CLONE_NEWUTS|CLONE_NEWIPC|SIGCHLD;
>  
> -    if (userns_supported()) {
> -        VIR_DEBUG("Enable user namespaces");
> -        cflags |= CLONE_NEWUSER;
> +    if (userns_required(def)) {
> +        if (userns_supported()) {
> +            VIR_DEBUG("Enable user namespace");
> +            cflags |= CLONE_NEWUSER;
> +        } else {
> +            virReportSystemError(VIR_ERR_NO_KERNEL, "%s",

Use  VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED for this error message.

> +                                 _("Kernel doesn't support user namespace"));
> +            return -1;
> +        }
>      }

Regards,
Daniel
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