proc: Usable inode numbers for the namespace file descriptors.
Assign a unique proc inode to each namespace, and use that
inode number to ensure we only allocate at most one proc
inode for every namespace in proc.
A single proc inode per namespace allows userspace to test
to see if two processes are in the same namespace.
This has been a long requested feature and only blocked because
a naive implementation would put the id in a global space and
would ultimately require having a namespace for the names of
namespaces, making migration and certain virtualization tricks
impossible.
We still don't have per superblock inode numbers for proc, which
appears necessary for application unaware checkpoint/restart and
migrations (if the application is using namespace file descriptors)
but that is now allowd by the design if it becomes important.
I have preallocated the ipc and uts initial proc inode numbers so
their structures can be statically initialized.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
diff --git a/ipc/msgutil.c b/ipc/msgutil.c
index 26143d3..6471f1b 100644
--- a/ipc/msgutil.c
+++ b/ipc/msgutil.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
#include <linux/msg.h>
#include <linux/ipc_namespace.h>
#include <linux/utsname.h>
+#include <linux/proc_fs.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include "util.h"
@@ -30,6 +31,7 @@
struct ipc_namespace init_ipc_ns = {
.count = ATOMIC_INIT(1),
.user_ns = &init_user_ns,
+ .proc_inum = PROC_IPC_INIT_INO,
};
atomic_t nr_ipc_ns = ATOMIC_INIT(1);