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nsfs: Add an ioctl() to return the namespace type 

Linux 4.9 added two ioctl() operations that can be used to discover:

* the parental relationships for hierarchical namespaces (user and PID)
  [NS_GET_PARENT]
* the user namespaces that owns a specified non-user-namespace
  [NS_GET_USERNS]

For no good reason that I can glean, NS_GET_USERNS was made synonymous
with NS_GET_PARENT for user namespaces. It might have been better if
NS_GET_USERNS had returned an error if the supplied file descriptor
referred to a user namespace, since it suggests that the caller may be
confused. More particularly, if it had generated an error, then I wouldn't
need the new ioctl() operation proposed here. (On the other hand, what
I propose here may be more generally useful.)

I would like to write code that discovers namespace relationships for
the purpose of understanding the namespace setup on a running system.
In particular, given a file descriptor (or pathname) for a namespace,
N, I'd like to obtain the corresponding user namespace.  Namespace N
might be a user namespace (in which case my code would just use N) or
a non-user namespace (in which case my code will use NS_GET_USERNS to
get the user namespace associated with N). The problem is that there
is no way to tell the difference by looking at the file descriptor
(and if I try to use NS_GET_USERNS on an N that is a user namespace, I
get the parent user namespace of N, which is not what I want).

This patch therefore adds a new ioctl(), NS_GET_NSTYPE, which, given
a file descriptor that refers to a user namespace, returns the
namespace type (one of the CLONE_NEW* constants).

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) 2017-01-25 14:03:36 +13:00 committed by Eric W. Biederman
parent 68eb94f162
commit e5ff5ce6e2
2 changed files with 5 additions and 0 deletions
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fs/nsfs.c
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@ -172,6 +172,8 @@ static long ns_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int ioctl,
if (!ns->ops->get_parent)
return -EINVAL;
return open_related_ns(ns, ns->ops->get_parent);
case NS_GET_NSTYPE:
return ns->ops->type;
default:
return -ENOTTY;
}

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include/uapi/linux/nsfs.h
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@ -9,5 +9,8 @@
#define NS_GET_USERNS _IO(NSIO, 0x1)
/* Returns a file descriptor that refers to a parent namespace */
#define NS_GET_PARENT _IO(NSIO, 0x2)
/* Returns the type of namespace (CLONE_NEW* value) referred to by
file descriptor */
#define NS_GET_NSTYPE _IO(NSIO, 0x3)
#endif /* __LINUX_NSFS_H */