ns: proc files for namespace naming policy.
Create files under /proc/<pid>/ns/ to allow controlling the
namespaces of a process.
This addresses three specific problems that can make namespaces hard to
work with.
- Namespaces require a dedicated process to pin them in memory.
- It is not possible to use a namespace unless you are the child
of the original creator.
- Namespaces don't have names that userspace can use to talk about
them.
The namespace files under /proc/<pid>/ns/ can be opened and the
file descriptor can be used to talk about a specific namespace, and
to keep the specified namespace alive.
A namespace can be kept alive by either holding the file descriptor
open or bind mounting the file someplace else. aka:
mount --bind /proc/self/ns/net /some/filesystem/path
mount --bind /proc/self/fd/<N> /some/filesystem/path
This allows namespaces to be named with userspace policy.
It requires additional support to make use of these filedescriptors
and that will be comming in the following patches.
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index dfa5327..dc8bca7 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -600,7 +600,7 @@
return allowed;
}
-static int proc_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *attr)
+int proc_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *attr)
{
int error;
struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
@@ -1736,8 +1736,7 @@
return 0;
}
-
-static struct inode *proc_pid_make_inode(struct super_block * sb, struct task_struct *task)
+struct inode *proc_pid_make_inode(struct super_block * sb, struct task_struct *task)
{
struct inode * inode;
struct proc_inode *ei;
@@ -1779,7 +1778,7 @@
return NULL;
}
-static int pid_getattr(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct dentry *dentry, struct kstat *stat)
+int pid_getattr(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct dentry *dentry, struct kstat *stat)
{
struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
struct task_struct *task;
@@ -1820,7 +1819,7 @@
* made this apply to all per process world readable and executable
* directories.
*/
-static int pid_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd)
+int pid_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd)
{
struct inode *inode;
struct task_struct *task;
@@ -1862,7 +1861,7 @@
return !proc_pid(dentry->d_inode)->tasks[PIDTYPE_PID].first;
}
-static const struct dentry_operations pid_dentry_operations =
+const struct dentry_operations pid_dentry_operations =
{
.d_revalidate = pid_revalidate,
.d_delete = pid_delete_dentry,
@@ -1870,9 +1869,6 @@
/* Lookups */
-typedef struct dentry *instantiate_t(struct inode *, struct dentry *,
- struct task_struct *, const void *);
-
/*
* Fill a directory entry.
*
@@ -1885,8 +1881,8 @@
* reported by readdir in sync with the inode numbers reported
* by stat.
*/
-static int proc_fill_cache(struct file *filp, void *dirent, filldir_t filldir,
- char *name, int len,
+int proc_fill_cache(struct file *filp, void *dirent, filldir_t filldir,
+ const char *name, int len,
instantiate_t instantiate, struct task_struct *task, const void *ptr)
{
struct dentry *child, *dir = filp->f_path.dentry;
@@ -2820,6 +2816,7 @@
DIR("task", S_IRUGO|S_IXUGO, proc_task_inode_operations, proc_task_operations),
DIR("fd", S_IRUSR|S_IXUSR, proc_fd_inode_operations, proc_fd_operations),
DIR("fdinfo", S_IRUSR|S_IXUSR, proc_fdinfo_inode_operations, proc_fdinfo_operations),
+ DIR("ns", S_IRUSR|S_IXUGO, proc_ns_dir_inode_operations, proc_ns_dir_operations),
#ifdef CONFIG_NET
DIR("net", S_IRUGO|S_IXUGO, proc_net_inode_operations, proc_net_operations),
#endif
@@ -3168,6 +3165,7 @@
static const struct pid_entry tid_base_stuff[] = {
DIR("fd", S_IRUSR|S_IXUSR, proc_fd_inode_operations, proc_fd_operations),
DIR("fdinfo", S_IRUSR|S_IXUSR, proc_fdinfo_inode_operations, proc_fdinfo_operations),
+ DIR("ns", S_IRUSR|S_IXUGO, proc_ns_dir_inode_operations, proc_ns_dir_operations),
REG("environ", S_IRUSR, proc_environ_operations),
INF("auxv", S_IRUSR, proc_pid_auxv),
ONE("status", S_IRUGO, proc_pid_status),