proc: Usable inode numbers for the namespace file descriptors.

Assign a unique proc inode to each namespace, and use that
inode number to ensure we only allocate at most one proc
inode for every namespace in proc.

A single proc inode per namespace allows userspace to test
to see if two processes are in the same namespace.

This has been a long requested feature and only blocked because
a naive implementation would put the id in a global space and
would ultimately require having a namespace for the names of
namespaces, making migration and certain virtualization tricks
impossible.

We still don't have per superblock inode numbers for proc, which
appears necessary for application unaware checkpoint/restart and
migrations (if the application is using namespace file descriptors)
but that is now allowd by the design if it becomes important.

I have preallocated the ipc and uts initial proc inode numbers so
their structures can be statically initialized.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c
index 6e8da291de49..3026ddae0a34 100644
--- a/kernel/pid.c
+++ b/kernel/pid.c
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ struct pid_namespace init_pid_ns = {
 	.level = 0,
 	.child_reaper = &init_task,
 	.user_ns = &init_user_ns,
+	.proc_inum = PROC_PID_INIT_INO,
 };
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(init_pid_ns);