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author | 2010-03-07 16:41:34 -0800 | |
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committer | 2011-05-10 14:31:44 -0700 | |
commit | 6b4e306aa3dc94a0545eb9279475b1ab6209a31f (patch) | |
tree | ca8c6dec0805076f0b5ba7c547e3cb2004e3aea2 /include/linux/proc_fs.h | |
parent | Linux 2.6.39-rc6 (diff) | |
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ns: proc files for namespace naming policy.
Create files under /proc/<pid>/ns/ to allow controlling the
namespaces of a process.
This addresses three specific problems that can make namespaces hard to
work with.
- Namespaces require a dedicated process to pin them in memory.
- It is not possible to use a namespace unless you are the child
of the original creator.
- Namespaces don't have names that userspace can use to talk about
them.
The namespace files under /proc/<pid>/ns/ can be opened and the
file descriptor can be used to talk about a specific namespace, and
to keep the specified namespace alive.
A namespace can be kept alive by either holding the file descriptor
open or bind mounting the file someplace else. aka:
mount --bind /proc/self/ns/net /some/filesystem/path
mount --bind /proc/self/fd/<N> /some/filesystem/path
This allows namespaces to be named with userspace policy.
It requires additional support to make use of these filedescriptors
and that will be comming in the following patches.
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/proc_fs.h')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/proc_fs.h | 18 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/proc_fs.h b/include/linux/proc_fs.h index 838c1149251a..a6d2c6da5e5a 100644 --- a/include/linux/proc_fs.h +++ b/include/linux/proc_fs.h @@ -179,6 +179,8 @@ extern void set_mm_exe_file(struct mm_struct *mm, struct file *new_exe_file); extern struct file *get_mm_exe_file(struct mm_struct *mm); extern void dup_mm_exe_file(struct mm_struct *oldmm, struct mm_struct *newmm); +extern struct file *proc_ns_fget(int fd); + #else #define proc_net_fops_create(net, name, mode, fops) ({ (void)(mode), NULL; }) @@ -239,6 +241,11 @@ static inline void dup_mm_exe_file(struct mm_struct *oldmm, struct mm_struct *newmm) {} +static inline struct file *proc_ns_fget(int fd) +{ + return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); +} + #endif /* CONFIG_PROC_FS */ #if !defined(CONFIG_PROC_KCORE) @@ -250,6 +257,15 @@ kclist_add(struct kcore_list *new, void *addr, size_t size, int type) extern void kclist_add(struct kcore_list *, void *, size_t, int type); #endif +struct nsproxy; +struct proc_ns_operations { + const char *name; + int type; + void *(*get)(struct task_struct *task); + void (*put)(void *ns); + int (*install)(struct nsproxy *nsproxy, void *ns); +}; + union proc_op { int (*proc_get_link)(struct inode *, struct path *); int (*proc_read)(struct task_struct *task, char *page); @@ -268,6 +284,8 @@ struct proc_inode { struct proc_dir_entry *pde; struct ctl_table_header *sysctl; struct ctl_table *sysctl_entry; + void *ns; + const struct proc_ns_operations *ns_ops; struct inode vfs_inode; }; |