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, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/pid_namespace.c b/kernel/pid_namespace.c
index 68508d330634..560da0dab230 100644
--- a/kernel/pid_namespace.c
+++ b/kernel/pid_namespace.c
@@ -107,6 +107,10 @@ static struct pid_namespace *create_pid_namespace(struct user_namespace *user_ns
 	if (ns->pid_cachep == NULL)
 		goto out_free_map;
 
+	err = proc_alloc_inum(&ns->proc_inum);
+	if (err)
+		goto out_free_map;
+
 	kref_init(&ns->kref);
 	ns->level = level;
 	ns->parent = get_pid_ns(parent_pid_ns);
@@ -133,6 +137,7 @@ static void destroy_pid_namespace(struct pid_namespace *ns)
 {
 	int i;
 
+	proc_free_inum(ns->proc_inum);
 	for (i = 0; i < PIDMAP_ENTRIES; i++)
 		kfree(ns->pidmap[i].page);
 	put_user_ns(ns->user_ns);
@@ -345,12 +350,19 @@ static int pidns_install(struct nsproxy *nsproxy, void *ns)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static unsigned int pidns_inum(void *ns)
+{
+	struct pid_namespace *pid_ns = ns;
+	return pid_ns->proc_inum;
+}
+
 const struct proc_ns_operations pidns_operations = {
 	.name		= "pid",
 	.type		= CLONE_NEWPID,
 	.get		= pidns_get,
 	.put		= pidns_put,
 	.install	= pidns_install,
+	.inum		= pidns_inum,
 };
 
 static __init int pid_namespaces_init(void)