nsfs: add ioctl to get a parent namespace
Pid and user namepaces are hierarchical. There is no way to discover
parent-child relationships.
In a future we will use this interface to dump and restore nested
namespaces.
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
diff --git a/include/linux/proc_ns.h b/include/linux/proc_ns.h
index ca85a43..12cb8bd 100644
--- a/include/linux/proc_ns.h
+++ b/include/linux/proc_ns.h
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
void (*put)(struct ns_common *ns);
int (*install)(struct nsproxy *nsproxy, struct ns_common *ns);
struct user_namespace *(*owner)(struct ns_common *ns);
+ struct ns_common *(*get_parent)(struct ns_common *ns);
};
extern const struct proc_ns_operations netns_operations;