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, 16 insertions, 1 deletions

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 @@ 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,
 };
-