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/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 @@
},
.owner = GLOBAL_ROOT_UID,
.group = GLOBAL_ROOT_GID,
+ .proc_inum = PROC_USER_INIT_INO,
};
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(init_user_ns);
