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>
diff --git a/kernel/utsname.c b/kernel/utsname.c
index fdc619e..f6336d5 100644
--- a/kernel/utsname.c
+++ b/kernel/utsname.c
@@ -36,11 +36,18 @@
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 @@
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 @@
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,
};
-
