sysctl: add the kernel.ns_last_pid control
The sysctl works on the current task's pid namespace, getting and setting
its last_pid field.
Writing is allowed for CAP_SYS_ADMIN-capable tasks thus making it possible
to create a task with desired pid value. This ability is required badly
for the checkpoint/restore in userspace.
This approach suits all the parties for now.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/kernel/pid_namespace.c b/kernel/pid_namespace.c
index e9c9adc..a896839 100644
--- a/kernel/pid_namespace.c
+++ b/kernel/pid_namespace.c
@@ -191,9 +191,40 @@
return;
}
+static int pid_ns_ctl_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
+ void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
+{
+ struct ctl_table tmp = *table;
+
+ if (write && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+ return -EPERM;
+
+ /*
+ * Writing directly to ns' last_pid field is OK, since this field
+ * is volatile in a living namespace anyway and a code writing to
+ * it should synchronize its usage with external means.
+ */
+
+ tmp.data = ¤t->nsproxy->pid_ns->last_pid;
+ return proc_dointvec(&tmp, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
+}
+
+static struct ctl_table pid_ns_ctl_table[] = {
+ {
+ .procname = "ns_last_pid",
+ .maxlen = sizeof(int),
+ .mode = 0666, /* permissions are checked in the handler */
+ .proc_handler = pid_ns_ctl_handler,
+ },
+ { }
+};
+
+static struct ctl_path kern_path[] = { { .procname = "kernel", }, { } };
+
static __init int pid_namespaces_init(void)
{
pid_ns_cachep = KMEM_CACHE(pid_namespace, SLAB_PANIC);
+ register_sysctl_paths(kern_path, pid_ns_ctl_table);
return 0;
}