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, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/user.c b/kernel/user.c
index 750acff..33acb5e 100644
--- a/kernel/user.c
+++ b/kernel/user.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 #include <linux/interrupt.h>
 #include <linux/export.h>
 #include <linux/user_namespace.h>
+#include <linux/proc_fs.h>
 
 /*
  * userns count is 1 for root user, 1 for init_uts_ns,
@@ -51,6 +52,7 @@ struct user_namespace init_user_ns = {
 	},
 	.owner = GLOBAL_ROOT_UID,
 	.group = GLOBAL_ROOT_GID,
+	.proc_inum = PROC_USER_INIT_INO,
 };
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(init_user_ns);