pidns: expose task pid_ns_for_children to userspace
authorKirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Mon, 8 May 2017 22:56:41 +0000 (15:56 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 9 May 2017 00:15:12 +0000 (17:15 -0700)
commiteaa0d190bfe1ed891b814a52712dcd852554cb08
treefafc1eb0753750511bac47f2368d8d6ead2f66a9
parent25b14e92af1a563c7331466ca59188f88050bbf0
pidns: expose task pid_ns_for_children to userspace

pid_ns_for_children set by a task is known only to the task itself, and
it's impossible to identify it from outside.

It's a big problem for checkpoint/restore software like CRIU, because it
can't correctly handle tasks, that do setns(CLONE_NEWPID) in proccess of
their work.

This patch solves the problem, and it exposes pid_ns_for_children to ns
directory in standard way with the name "pid_for_children":

  ~# ls /proc/5531/ns -l | grep pid
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 14 16:38 pid -> pid:[4026531836]
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 14 16:38 pid_for_children -> pid:[4026532286]

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/149201123914.6007.2187327078064239572.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Andrei Vagin <avagin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/proc/namespaces.c
include/linux/proc_ns.h
kernel/pid_namespace.c