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vfs-6.11.nsfs

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Merge tag 'vfs-6.11.nsfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

Pull namespace-fs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This adds ioctls allowing to translate PIDs between PID namespaces.

  The motivating use-case comes from LXCFS which is a tiny fuse
  filesystem used to virtualize various aspects of procfs. LXCFS is run
  on the host. The files and directories it creates can be bind-mounted
  by e.g. a container at startup and mounted over the various procfs
  files the container wishes to have virtualized.

  When e.g. a read request for uptime is received, LXCFS will receive
  the pid of the reader. In order to virtualize the corresponding read,
  LXCFS needs to know the pid of the init process of the reader's pid
  namespace.

  In order to do this, LXCFS first needs to fork() two helper processes.
  The first helper process setns() to the readers pid namespace. The
  second helper process is needed to create a process that is a proper
  member of the pid namespace.

  The second helper process then creates a ucred message with ucred.pid
  set to 1 and sends it back to LXCFS. The kernel will translate the
  ucred.pid field to the corresponding pid number in LXCFS's pid
  namespace. This way LXCFS can learn the init pid number of the
  reader's pid namespace and can go on to virtualize.

  Since these two forks() are costly LXCFS maintains an init pid cache
  that caches a given pid for a fixed amount of time. The cache is
  pruned during new read requests. However, even with the cache the hit
  of the two forks() is singificant when a very large number of
  containers are running.

  So this adds a simple set of ioctls that let's a caller translate PIDs
  from and into a given PID namespace. This significantly improves
  performance with a very simple change.

  To protect against races pidfds can be used to check whether the
  process is still valid"

* tag 'vfs-6.11.nsfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  nsfs: add pid translation ioctls
This commit is contained in:
Linus Torvalds 2024-07-15 12:27:39 -07:00
commit 1b074abe88
2 changed files with 60 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
#include <linux/magic.h>
#include <linux/ktime.h>
#include <linux/seq_file.h>
#include <linux/pid_namespace.h>
#include <linux/user_namespace.h>
#include <linux/nsfs.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
@ -124,9 +125,12 @@ static long ns_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int ioctl,
unsigned long arg)
{
struct user_namespace *user_ns;
struct pid_namespace *pid_ns;
struct task_struct *tsk;
struct ns_common *ns = get_proc_ns(file_inode(filp));
uid_t __user *argp;
uid_t uid;
int ret;
switch (ioctl) {
case NS_GET_USERNS:
@ -157,9 +161,56 @@ static long ns_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int ioctl,
id = mnt_ns->seq;
return put_user(id, idp);
}
case NS_GET_PID_FROM_PIDNS:
fallthrough;
case NS_GET_TGID_FROM_PIDNS:
fallthrough;
case NS_GET_PID_IN_PIDNS:
fallthrough;
case NS_GET_TGID_IN_PIDNS:
if (ns->ops->type != CLONE_NEWPID)
return -EINVAL;
ret = -ESRCH;
pid_ns = container_of(ns, struct pid_namespace, ns);
rcu_read_lock();
if (ioctl == NS_GET_PID_IN_PIDNS ||
ioctl == NS_GET_TGID_IN_PIDNS)
tsk = find_task_by_vpid(arg);
else
tsk = find_task_by_pid_ns(arg, pid_ns);
if (!tsk)
break;
switch (ioctl) {
case NS_GET_PID_FROM_PIDNS:
ret = task_pid_vnr(tsk);
break;
case NS_GET_TGID_FROM_PIDNS:
ret = task_tgid_vnr(tsk);
break;
case NS_GET_PID_IN_PIDNS:
ret = task_pid_nr_ns(tsk, pid_ns);
break;
case NS_GET_TGID_IN_PIDNS:
ret = task_tgid_nr_ns(tsk, pid_ns);
break;
default:
ret = 0;
break;
}
rcu_read_unlock();
if (!ret)
ret = -ESRCH;
break;
default:
return -ENOTTY;
ret = -ENOTTY;
}
return ret;
}
int ns_get_name(char *buf, size_t size, struct task_struct *task,

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@ -17,5 +17,13 @@
#define NS_GET_OWNER_UID _IO(NSIO, 0x4)
/* Get the id for a mount namespace */
#define NS_GET_MNTNS_ID _IO(NSIO, 0x5)
/* Translate pid from target pid namespace into the caller's pid namespace. */
#define NS_GET_PID_FROM_PIDNS _IOR(NSIO, 0x6, int)
/* Return thread-group leader id of pid in the callers pid namespace. */
#define NS_GET_TGID_FROM_PIDNS _IOR(NSIO, 0x7, int)
/* Translate pid from caller's pid namespace into a target pid namespace. */
#define NS_GET_PID_IN_PIDNS _IOR(NSIO, 0x8, int)
/* Return thread-group leader id of pid in the target pid namespace. */
#define NS_GET_TGID_IN_PIDNS _IOR(NSIO, 0x9, int)
#endif /* __LINUX_NSFS_H */