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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2017-09-12T01:34:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-12T01:34:47+00:00</published>
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Pull namespace updates from Eric Biederman:
 "Life has been busy and I have not gotten half as much done this round
  as I would have liked. I delayed it so that a minor conflict
  resolution with the mips tree could spend a little time in linux-next
  before I sent this pull request.

  This includes two long delayed user namespace changes from Kirill
  Tkhai. It also includes a very useful change from Serge Hallyn that
  allows the security capability attribute to be used inside of user
  namespaces. The practical effect of this is people can now untar
  tarballs and install rpms in user namespaces. It had been suggested to
  generalize this and encode some of the namespace information
  information in the xattr name. Upon close inspection that makes the
  things that should be hard easy and the things that should be easy
  more expensive.

  Then there is my bugfix/cleanup for signal injection that removes the
  magic encoding of the siginfo union member from the kernel internal
  si_code. The mips folks reported the case where I had used FPE_FIXME
  me is impossible so I have remove FPE_FIXME from mips, while at the
  same time including a return statement in that case to keep gcc from
  complaining about unitialized variables.

  I almost finished the work to get make copy_siginfo_to_user a trivial
  copy to user. The code is available at:

     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace.git neuter-copy_siginfo_to_user-v3

  But I did not have time/energy to get the code posted and reviewed
  before the merge window opened.

  I was able to see that the security excuse for just copying fields
  that we know are initialized doesn't work in practice there are buggy
  initializations that don't initialize the proper fields in siginfo. So
  we still sometimes copy unitialized data to userspace"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  Introduce v3 namespaced file capabilities
  mips/signal: In force_fcr31_sig return in the impossible case
  signal: Remove kernel interal si_code magic
  fcntl: Don't use ambiguous SIG_POLL si_codes
  prctl: Allow local CAP_SYS_ADMIN changing exe_file
  security: Use user_namespace::level to avoid redundant iterations in cap_capable()
  userns,pidns: Verify the userns for new pid namespaces
  signal/testing: Don't look for __SI_FAULT in userspace
  signal/mips: Document a conflict with SI_USER with SIGFPE
  signal/sparc: Document a conflict with SI_USER with SIGFPE
  signal/ia64: Document a conflict with SI_USER with SIGFPE
  signal/alpha: Document a conflict with SI_USER for SIGTRAP
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Pull namespace updates from Eric Biederman:
 "Life has been busy and I have not gotten half as much done this round
  as I would have liked. I delayed it so that a minor conflict
  resolution with the mips tree could spend a little time in linux-next
  before I sent this pull request.

  This includes two long delayed user namespace changes from Kirill
  Tkhai. It also includes a very useful change from Serge Hallyn that
  allows the security capability attribute to be used inside of user
  namespaces. The practical effect of this is people can now untar
  tarballs and install rpms in user namespaces. It had been suggested to
  generalize this and encode some of the namespace information
  information in the xattr name. Upon close inspection that makes the
  things that should be hard easy and the things that should be easy
  more expensive.

  Then there is my bugfix/cleanup for signal injection that removes the
  magic encoding of the siginfo union member from the kernel internal
  si_code. The mips folks reported the case where I had used FPE_FIXME
  me is impossible so I have remove FPE_FIXME from mips, while at the
  same time including a return statement in that case to keep gcc from
  complaining about unitialized variables.

  I almost finished the work to get make copy_siginfo_to_user a trivial
  copy to user. The code is available at:

     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace.git neuter-copy_siginfo_to_user-v3

  But I did not have time/energy to get the code posted and reviewed
  before the merge window opened.

  I was able to see that the security excuse for just copying fields
  that we know are initialized doesn't work in practice there are buggy
  initializations that don't initialize the proper fields in siginfo. So
  we still sometimes copy unitialized data to userspace"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  Introduce v3 namespaced file capabilities
  mips/signal: In force_fcr31_sig return in the impossible case
  signal: Remove kernel interal si_code magic
  fcntl: Don't use ambiguous SIG_POLL si_codes
  prctl: Allow local CAP_SYS_ADMIN changing exe_file
  security: Use user_namespace::level to avoid redundant iterations in cap_capable()
  userns,pidns: Verify the userns for new pid namespaces
  signal/testing: Don't look for __SI_FAULT in userspace
  signal/mips: Document a conflict with SI_USER with SIGFPE
  signal/sparc: Document a conflict with SI_USER with SIGFPE
  signal/ia64: Document a conflict with SI_USER with SIGFPE
  signal/alpha: Document a conflict with SI_USER for SIGTRAP
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<title>userns,pidns: Verify the userns for new pid namespaces</title>
<updated>2017-07-20T12:43:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-29T19:12:15+00:00</published>
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It is pointless and confusing to allow a pid namespace hierarchy and
the user namespace hierarchy to get out of sync.  The owner of a child
pid namespace should be the owner of the parent pid namespace or
a descendant of the owner of the parent pid namespace.

Otherwise it is possible to construct scenarios where a process has a
capability over a parent pid namespace but does not have the
capability over a child pid namespace.  Which confusingly makes
permission checks non-transitive.

It requires use of setns into a pid namespace (but not into a user
namespace) to create such a scenario.

Add the function in_userns to help in making this determination.

v2: Optimized in_userns by using level as suggested
    by: Kirill Tkhai &lt;ktkhai@virtuozzo.com&gt;

Ref: 49f4d8b93ccf ("pidns: Capture the user namespace and filter ns_last_pid")
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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It is pointless and confusing to allow a pid namespace hierarchy and
the user namespace hierarchy to get out of sync.  The owner of a child
pid namespace should be the owner of the parent pid namespace or
a descendant of the owner of the parent pid namespace.

Otherwise it is possible to construct scenarios where a process has a
capability over a parent pid namespace but does not have the
capability over a child pid namespace.  Which confusingly makes
permission checks non-transitive.

It requires use of setns into a pid namespace (but not into a user
namespace) to create such a scenario.

Add the function in_userns to help in making this determination.

v2: Optimized in_userns by using level as suggested
    by: Kirill Tkhai &lt;ktkhai@virtuozzo.com&gt;

Ref: 49f4d8b93ccf ("pidns: Capture the user namespace and filter ns_last_pid")
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>randstruct: Mark various structs for randomization</title>
<updated>2017-06-30T19:00:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-28T08:22:25+00:00</published>
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This marks many critical kernel structures for randomization. These are
structures that have been targeted in the past in security exploits, or
contain functions pointers, pointers to function pointer tables, lists,
workqueues, ref-counters, credentials, permissions, or are otherwise
sensitive. This initial list was extracted from Brad Spengler/PaX Team's
code in the last public patch of grsecurity/PaX based on my understanding
of the code. Changes or omissions from the original code are mine and
don't reflect the original grsecurity/PaX code.

Left out of this list is task_struct, which requires special handling
and will be covered in a subsequent patch.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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This marks many critical kernel structures for randomization. These are
structures that have been targeted in the past in security exploits, or
contain functions pointers, pointers to function pointer tables, lists,
workqueues, ref-counters, credentials, permissions, or are otherwise
sensitive. This initial list was extracted from Brad Spengler/PaX Team's
code in the last public patch of grsecurity/PaX based on my understanding
of the code. Changes or omissions from the original code are mine and
don't reflect the original grsecurity/PaX code.

Left out of this list is task_struct, which requires special handling
and will be covered in a subsequent patch.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ucount: Remove the atomicity from ucount-&gt;count</title>
<updated>2017-03-06T21:26:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-05T21:03:22+00:00</published>
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Always increment/decrement ucount-&gt;count under the ucounts_lock.  The
increments are there already and moving the decrements there means the
locking logic of the code is simpler.  This simplification in the
locking logic fixes a race between put_ucounts and get_ucounts that
could result in a use-after-free because the count could go zero then
be found by get_ucounts and then be freed by put_ucounts.

A bug presumably this one was found by a combination of syzkaller and
KASAN.  JongWhan Kim reported the syzkaller failure and Dmitry Vyukov
spotted the race in the code.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: f6b2db1a3e8d ("userns: Make the count of user namespaces per user")
Reported-by: JongHwan Kim &lt;zzoru007@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrei Vagin &lt;avagin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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Always increment/decrement ucount-&gt;count under the ucounts_lock.  The
increments are there already and moving the decrements there means the
locking logic of the code is simpler.  This simplification in the
locking logic fixes a race between put_ucounts and get_ucounts that
could result in a use-after-free because the count could go zero then
be found by get_ucounts and then be freed by put_ucounts.

A bug presumably this one was found by a combination of syzkaller and
KASAN.  JongWhan Kim reported the syzkaller failure and Dmitry Vyukov
spotted the race in the code.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: f6b2db1a3e8d ("userns: Make the count of user namespaces per user")
Reported-by: JongHwan Kim &lt;zzoru007@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrei Vagin &lt;avagin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sched/headers, timers: Remove the &lt;linux/sysctl.h&gt; include from &lt;linux/timer.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2017-03-03T00:45:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-06T08:56:40+00:00</published>
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So we want to simplify &lt;linux/sched.h&gt;'s header dependencies, but one
roadblock of that is &lt;linux/timer.h&gt;'s inclusion of sysctl.h,
which brings in other, problematic headers.

Note that timer.h's inclusion of sysctl.h can be avoided if we
pre-declare ctl_table - so do that.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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So we want to simplify &lt;linux/sched.h&gt;'s header dependencies, but one
roadblock of that is &lt;linux/timer.h&gt;'s inclusion of sysctl.h,
which brings in other, problematic headers.

Note that timer.h's inclusion of sysctl.h can be avoided if we
pre-declare ctl_table - so do that.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sched/headers: Remove &lt;linux/rwsem.h&gt; from &lt;linux/sched.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2017-03-03T00:45:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-08T17:51:58+00:00</published>
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This is a stray header that is not needed by anything in sched.h,
so remove it.

Update files that relied on the stray inclusion.

This reduces the size of the header dependency graph.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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This is a stray header that is not needed by anything in sched.h,
so remove it.

Update files that relied on the stray inclusion.

This reduces the size of the header dependency graph.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sched/headers: Prepare for the removal of various unrelated headers from &lt;linux/sched.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2017-03-02T07:42:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-03T09:06:45+00:00</published>
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We are going to remove the following header inclusions from &lt;linux/sched.h&gt;:

	#include &lt;asm/param.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/threads.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/kernel.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/types.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/timex.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/jiffies.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/rbtree.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/thread_info.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/cpumask.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/errno.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/nodemask.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/preempt.h&gt;
	#include &lt;asm/page.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/smp.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/compiler.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/completion.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/percpu.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/topology.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/rcupdate.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/time.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/timer.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/llist.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/uidgid.h&gt;
	#include &lt;asm/processor.h&gt;

Fix up a single .h file that got hold of &lt;linux/sysctl.h&gt; via one of these headers.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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We are going to remove the following header inclusions from &lt;linux/sched.h&gt;:

	#include &lt;asm/param.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/threads.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/kernel.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/types.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/timex.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/jiffies.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/rbtree.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/thread_info.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/cpumask.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/errno.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/nodemask.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/preempt.h&gt;
	#include &lt;asm/page.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/smp.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/compiler.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/completion.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/percpu.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/topology.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/rcupdate.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/time.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/timer.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/llist.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/uidgid.h&gt;
	#include &lt;asm/processor.h&gt;

Fix up a single .h file that got hold of &lt;linux/sysctl.h&gt; via one of these headers.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>inotify: Convert to using per-namespace limits</title>
<updated>2017-01-23T23:03:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nikolay Borisov</name>
<email>n.borisov.lkml@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-14T13:56:33+00:00</published>
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This patchset converts inotify to using the newly introduced
per-userns sysctl infrastructure.

Currently the inotify instances/watches are being accounted in the
user_struct structure. This means that in setups where multiple
users in unprivileged containers map to the same underlying
real user (i.e. pointing to the same user_struct) the inotify limits
are going to be shared as well, allowing one user(or application) to exhaust
all others limits.

Fix this by switching the inotify sysctls to using the
per-namespace/per-user limits. This will allow the server admin to
set sensible global limits, which can further be tuned inside every
individual user namespace. Additionally, in order to preserve the
sysctl ABI make the existing inotify instances/watches sysctls
modify the values of the initial user namespace.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov &lt;n.borisov.lkml@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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This patchset converts inotify to using the newly introduced
per-userns sysctl infrastructure.

Currently the inotify instances/watches are being accounted in the
user_struct structure. This means that in setups where multiple
users in unprivileged containers map to the same underlying
real user (i.e. pointing to the same user_struct) the inotify limits
are going to be shared as well, allowing one user(or application) to exhaust
all others limits.

Fix this by switching the inotify sysctls to using the
per-namespace/per-user limits. This will allow the server admin to
set sensible global limits, which can further be tuned inside every
individual user namespace. Additionally, in order to preserve the
sysctl ABI make the existing inotify instances/watches sysctls
modify the values of the initial user namespace.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov &lt;n.borisov.lkml@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'nsfs-ioctls' into HEAD</title>
<updated>2016-09-23T01:00:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-23T01:00:36+00:00</published>
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From: Andrey Vagin &lt;avagin@openvz.org&gt;

Each namespace has an owning user namespace and now there is not way
to discover these relationships.

Pid and user namepaces are hierarchical. There is no way to discover
parent-child relationships too.

Why we may want to know relationships between namespaces?

One use would be visualization, in order to understand the running
system.  Another would be to answer the question: what capability does
process X have to perform operations on a resource governed by namespace
Y?

One more use-case (which usually called abnormal) is checkpoint/restart.
In CRIU we are going to dump and restore nested namespaces.

There [1] was a discussion about which interface to choose to determing
relationships between namespaces.

Eric suggested to add two ioctl-s [2]:
&gt; Grumble, Grumble.  I think this may actually a case for creating ioctls
&gt; for these two cases.  Now that random nsfs file descriptors are bind
&gt; mountable the original reason for using proc files is not as pressing.
&gt;
&gt; One ioctl for the user namespace that owns a file descriptor.
&gt; One ioctl for the parent namespace of a namespace file descriptor.

Here is an implementaions of these ioctl-s.

$ man man7/namespaces.7
...
Since  Linux  4.X,  the  following  ioctl(2)  calls are supported for
namespace file descriptors.  The correct syntax is:

      fd = ioctl(ns_fd, ioctl_type);

where ioctl_type is one of the following:

NS_GET_USERNS
      Returns a file descriptor that refers to an owning user names‐
      pace.

NS_GET_PARENT
      Returns  a  file descriptor that refers to a parent namespace.
      This ioctl(2) can be used for pid  and  user  namespaces.  For
      user namespaces, NS_GET_PARENT and NS_GET_USERNS have the same
      meaning.

In addition to generic ioctl(2) errors, the following  specific  ones
can occur:

EINVAL NS_GET_PARENT was called for a nonhierarchical namespace.

EPERM  The  requested  namespace  is outside of the current namespace
      scope.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/7/6/158
[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/7/9/101

Changes for v2:
* don't return ENOENT for init_user_ns and init_pid_ns. There is nothing
  outside of the init namespace, so we can return EPERM in this case too.
  &gt; The fewer special cases the easier the code is to get
  &gt; correct, and the easier it is to read. // Eric

Changes for v3:
* rename ns-&gt;get_owner() to ns-&gt;owner(). get_* usually means that it
  grabs a reference.

Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" &lt;mtk.manpages@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "W. Trevor King" &lt;wking@tremily.us&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge.hallyn@canonical.com&gt;
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From: Andrey Vagin &lt;avagin@openvz.org&gt;

Each namespace has an owning user namespace and now there is not way
to discover these relationships.

Pid and user namepaces are hierarchical. There is no way to discover
parent-child relationships too.

Why we may want to know relationships between namespaces?

One use would be visualization, in order to understand the running
system.  Another would be to answer the question: what capability does
process X have to perform operations on a resource governed by namespace
Y?

One more use-case (which usually called abnormal) is checkpoint/restart.
In CRIU we are going to dump and restore nested namespaces.

There [1] was a discussion about which interface to choose to determing
relationships between namespaces.

Eric suggested to add two ioctl-s [2]:
&gt; Grumble, Grumble.  I think this may actually a case for creating ioctls
&gt; for these two cases.  Now that random nsfs file descriptors are bind
&gt; mountable the original reason for using proc files is not as pressing.
&gt;
&gt; One ioctl for the user namespace that owns a file descriptor.
&gt; One ioctl for the parent namespace of a namespace file descriptor.

Here is an implementaions of these ioctl-s.

$ man man7/namespaces.7
...
Since  Linux  4.X,  the  following  ioctl(2)  calls are supported for
namespace file descriptors.  The correct syntax is:

      fd = ioctl(ns_fd, ioctl_type);

where ioctl_type is one of the following:

NS_GET_USERNS
      Returns a file descriptor that refers to an owning user names‐
      pace.

NS_GET_PARENT
      Returns  a  file descriptor that refers to a parent namespace.
      This ioctl(2) can be used for pid  and  user  namespaces.  For
      user namespaces, NS_GET_PARENT and NS_GET_USERNS have the same
      meaning.

In addition to generic ioctl(2) errors, the following  specific  ones
can occur:

EINVAL NS_GET_PARENT was called for a nonhierarchical namespace.

EPERM  The  requested  namespace  is outside of the current namespace
      scope.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/7/6/158
[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/7/9/101

Changes for v2:
* don't return ENOENT for init_user_ns and init_pid_ns. There is nothing
  outside of the init namespace, so we can return EPERM in this case too.
  &gt; The fewer special cases the easier the code is to get
  &gt; correct, and the easier it is to read. // Eric

Changes for v3:
* rename ns-&gt;get_owner() to ns-&gt;owner(). get_* usually means that it
  grabs a reference.

Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" &lt;mtk.manpages@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "W. Trevor King" &lt;wking@tremily.us&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge.hallyn@canonical.com&gt;
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<title>kernel: add a helper to get an owning user namespace for a namespace</title>
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<name>Andrey Vagin</name>
<email>avagin@openvz.org</email>
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<published>2016-09-06T07:47:13+00:00</published>
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Return -EPERM if an owning user namespace is outside of a process
current user namespace.

v2: In a first version ns_get_owner returned ENOENT for init_user_ns.
    This special cases was removed from this version. There is nothing
    outside of init_user_ns, so we can return EPERM.
v3: rename ns-&gt;get_owner() to ns-&gt;owner(). get_* usually means that it
grabs a reference.

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin &lt;avagin@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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Return -EPERM if an owning user namespace is outside of a process
current user namespace.

v2: In a first version ns_get_owner returned ENOENT for init_user_ns.
    This special cases was removed from this version. There is nothing
    outside of init_user_ns, so we can return EPERM.
v3: rename ns-&gt;get_owner() to ns-&gt;owner(). get_* usually means that it
grabs a reference.

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin &lt;avagin@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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