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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2011-06-15 10:21:48 -0700
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2012-11-20 04:19:49 -0800
commit98f842e675f96ffac96e6c50315790912b2812be (patch)
treeed4dee9a6e54e3443e9f3f1614c8a2fcf9b31e0a /kernel/utsname.c
parentbf056bfa80596a5d14b26b17276a56a0dcb080e5 (diff)
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/utsname.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/utsname.c17
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/utsname.c b/kernel/utsname.c
index fdc619eb61ef..f6336d51d64c 100644
--- a/kernel/utsname.c
+++ b/kernel/utsname.c
@@ -36,11 +36,18 @@ static struct uts_namespace *clone_uts_ns(struct user_namespace *user_ns,
struct uts_namespace *old_ns)
{
struct uts_namespace *ns;
+ int err;
ns = create_uts_ns();
if (!ns)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+ err = proc_alloc_inum(&ns->proc_inum);
+ if (err) {
+ kfree(ns);
+ return ERR_PTR(err);
+ }
+
down_read(&uts_sem);
memcpy(&ns->name, &old_ns->name, sizeof(ns->name));
ns->user_ns = get_user_ns(user_ns);
@@ -77,6 +84,7 @@ void free_uts_ns(struct kref *kref)
ns = container_of(kref, struct uts_namespace, kref);
put_user_ns(ns->user_ns);
+ proc_free_inum(ns->proc_inum);
kfree(ns);
}
@@ -114,11 +122,18 @@ static int utsns_install(struct nsproxy *nsproxy, void *new)
return 0;
}
+static unsigned int utsns_inum(void *vp)
+{
+ struct uts_namespace *ns = vp;
+
+ return ns->proc_inum;
+}
+
const struct proc_ns_operations utsns_operations = {
.name = "uts",
.type = CLONE_NEWUTS,
.get = utsns_get,
.put = utsns_put,
.install = utsns_install,
+ .inum = utsns_inum,
};
-