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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2010-03-02 15:41:50 -0800
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2012-11-19 05:59:16 -0800
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pidns: Support unsharing the pid namespace.
Unsharing of the pid namespace unlike unsharing of other namespaces does not take affect immediately. Instead it affects the children created with fork and clone. The first of these children becomes the init process of the new pid namespace, the rest become oddball children of pid 0. From the point of view of the new pid namespace the process that created it is pid 0, as it's pid does not map. A couple of different semantics were considered but this one was settled on because it is easy to implement and it is usable from pam modules. The core reasons for the existence of unshare. I took a survey of the callers of pam modules and the following appears to be a representative sample of their logic. { setup stuff include pam child = fork(); if (!child) { setuid() exec /bin/bash } waitpid(child); pam and other cleanup } As you can see there is a fork to create the unprivileged user space process. Which means that the unprivileged user space process will appear as pid 1 in the new pid namespace. Further most login processes do not cope with extraneous children which means shifting the duty of reaping extraneous child process to the creator of those extraneous children makes the system more comprehensible. The practical reason for this set of pid namespace semantics is that it is simple to implement and verify they work correctly. Whereas an implementation that requres changing the struct pid on a process comes with a lot more races and pain. Not the least of which is that glibc caches getpid(). These semantics are implemented by having two notions of the pid namespace of a proces. There is task_active_pid_ns which is the pid namspace the process was created with and the pid namespace that all pids are presented to that process in. The task_active_pid_ns is stored in the struct pid of the task. Then there is the pid namespace that will be used for children that pid namespace is stored in task->nsproxy->pid_ns. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/pid_namespace.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/pid_namespace.c2
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/pid_namespace.c b/kernel/pid_namespace.c
index f78fc48c86bc..68508d330634 100644
--- a/kernel/pid_namespace.c
+++ b/kernel/pid_namespace.c
@@ -144,8 +144,6 @@ struct pid_namespace *copy_pid_ns(unsigned long flags,
{
if (!(flags & CLONE_NEWPID))
return get_pid_ns(old_ns);
- if (flags & (CLONE_THREAD|CLONE_PARENT))
- return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
if (task_active_pid_ns(current) != old_ns)
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
return create_pid_namespace(user_ns, old_ns);