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<title>cgroup: don't online subsystems before cgroup_name/path() are operational</title>
<updated>2017-02-09T07:08:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-26T21:47:28+00:00</published>
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commit 07cd12945551b63ecb1a349d50a6d69d1d6feb4a upstream.

While refactoring cgroup creation, a5bca2152036 ("cgroup: factor out
cgroup_create() out of cgroup_mkdir()") incorrectly onlined subsystems
before the new cgroup is associated with it kernfs_node.  This is fine
for cgroup proper but cgroup_name/path() depend on the associated
kernfs_node and if a subsystem makes the new cgroup_subsys_state
visible, which they're allowed to after onlining, it can lead to NULL
dereference.

The current code performs cgroup creation and subsystem onlining in
cgroup_create() and cgroup_mkdir() makes the cgroup and subsystems
visible afterwards.  There's no reason to online the subsystems early
and we can simply drop cgroup_apply_control_enable() call from
cgroup_create() so that the subsystems are onlined and made visible at
the same time.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Fixes: a5bca2152036 ("cgroup: factor out cgroup_create() out of cgroup_mkdir()")
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 07cd12945551b63ecb1a349d50a6d69d1d6feb4a upstream.

While refactoring cgroup creation, a5bca2152036 ("cgroup: factor out
cgroup_create() out of cgroup_mkdir()") incorrectly onlined subsystems
before the new cgroup is associated with it kernfs_node.  This is fine
for cgroup proper but cgroup_name/path() depend on the associated
kernfs_node and if a subsystem makes the new cgroup_subsys_state
visible, which they're allowed to after onlining, it can lead to NULL
dereference.

The current code performs cgroup creation and subsystem onlining in
cgroup_create() and cgroup_mkdir() makes the cgroup and subsystems
visible afterwards.  There's no reason to online the subsystems early
and we can simply drop cgroup_apply_control_enable() call from
cgroup_create() so that the subsystems are onlined and made visible at
the same time.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Fixes: a5bca2152036 ("cgroup: factor out cgroup_create() out of cgroup_mkdir()")
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-4.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup</title>
<updated>2016-10-14T19:18:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-14T19:18:50+00:00</published>
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Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:

 - tracepoints for basic cgroup management operations added

 - kernfs and cgroup path formatting functions updated to behave in the
   style of strlcpy()

 - non-critical bug fixes

* 'for-4.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  blkcg: Unlock blkcg_pol_mutex only once when cpd == NULL
  cgroup: fix error handling regressions in proc_cgroup_show() and cgroup_release_agent()
  cpuset: fix error handling regression in proc_cpuset_show()
  cgroup: add tracepoints for basic operations
  cgroup: make cgroup_path() and friends behave in the style of strlcpy()
  kernfs: remove kernfs_path_len()
  kernfs: make kernfs_path*() behave in the style of strlcpy()
  kernfs: add dummy implementation of kernfs_path_from_node()
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Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:

 - tracepoints for basic cgroup management operations added

 - kernfs and cgroup path formatting functions updated to behave in the
   style of strlcpy()

 - non-critical bug fixes

* 'for-4.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  blkcg: Unlock blkcg_pol_mutex only once when cpd == NULL
  cgroup: fix error handling regressions in proc_cgroup_show() and cgroup_release_agent()
  cpuset: fix error handling regression in proc_cpuset_show()
  cgroup: add tracepoints for basic operations
  cgroup: make cgroup_path() and friends behave in the style of strlcpy()
  kernfs: remove kernfs_path_len()
  kernfs: make kernfs_path*() behave in the style of strlcpy()
  kernfs: add dummy implementation of kernfs_path_from_node()
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2016-10-06T16:52:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-06T16:52:23+00:00</published>
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Pull namespace updates from Eric Biederman:
 "This set of changes is a number of smaller things that have been
  overlooked in other development cycles focused on more fundamental
  change. The devpts changes are small things that were a distraction
  until we managed to kill off DEVPTS_MULTPLE_INSTANCES. There is an
  trivial regression fix to autofs for the unprivileged mount changes
  that went in last cycle. A pair of ioctls has been added by Andrey
  Vagin making it is possible to discover the relationships between
  namespaces when referring to them through file descriptors.

  The big user visible change is starting to add simple resource limits
  to catch programs that misbehave. With namespaces in general and user
  namespaces in particular allowing users to use more kinds of
  resources, it has become important to have something to limit errant
  programs. Because the purpose of these limits is to catch errant
  programs the code needs to be inexpensive to use as it always on, and
  the default limits need to be high enough that well behaved programs
  on well behaved systems don't encounter them.

  To this end, after some review I have implemented per user per user
  namespace limits, and use them to limit the number of namespaces. The
  limits being per user mean that one user can not exhause the limits of
  another user. The limits being per user namespace allow contexts where
  the limit is 0 and security conscious folks can remove from their
  threat anlysis the code used to manage namespaces (as they have
  historically done as it root only). At the same time the limits being
  per user namespace allow other parts of the system to use namespaces.

  Namespaces are increasingly being used in application sand boxing
  scenarios so an all or nothing disable for the entire system for the
  security conscious folks makes increasing use of these sandboxes
  impossible.

  There is also added a limit on the maximum number of mounts present in
  a single mount namespace. It is nontrivial to guess what a reasonable
  system wide limit on the number of mount structure in the kernel would
  be, especially as it various based on how a system is using
  containers. A limit on the number of mounts in a mount namespace
  however is much easier to understand and set. In most cases in
  practice only about 1000 mounts are used. Given that some autofs
  scenarious have the potential to be 30,000 to 50,000 mounts I have set
  the default limit for the number of mounts at 100,000 which is well
  above every known set of users but low enough that the mount hash
  tables don't degrade unreaonsably.

  These limits are a start. I expect this estabilishes a pattern that
  other limits for resources that namespaces use will follow. There has
  been interest in making inotify event limits per user per user
  namespace as well as interest expressed in making details about what
  is going on in the kernel more visible"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (28 commits)
  autofs:  Fix automounts by using current_real_cred()-&gt;uid
  mnt: Add a per mount namespace limit on the number of mounts
  netns: move {inc,dec}_net_namespaces into #ifdef
  nsfs: Simplify __ns_get_path
  tools/testing: add a test to check nsfs ioctl-s
  nsfs: add ioctl to get a parent namespace
  nsfs: add ioctl to get an owning user namespace for ns file descriptor
  kernel: add a helper to get an owning user namespace for a namespace
  devpts: Change the owner of /dev/pts/ptmx to the mounter of /dev/pts
  devpts: Remove sync_filesystems
  devpts: Make devpts_kill_sb safe if fsi is NULL
  devpts: Simplify devpts_mount by using mount_nodev
  devpts: Move the creation of /dev/pts/ptmx into fill_super
  devpts: Move parse_mount_options into fill_super
  userns: When the per user per user namespace limit is reached return ENOSPC
  userns; Document per user per user namespace limits.
  mntns: Add a limit on the number of mount namespaces.
  netns: Add a limit on the number of net namespaces
  cgroupns: Add a limit on the number of cgroup namespaces
  ipcns: Add a  limit on the number of ipc namespaces
  ...
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Pull namespace updates from Eric Biederman:
 "This set of changes is a number of smaller things that have been
  overlooked in other development cycles focused on more fundamental
  change. The devpts changes are small things that were a distraction
  until we managed to kill off DEVPTS_MULTPLE_INSTANCES. There is an
  trivial regression fix to autofs for the unprivileged mount changes
  that went in last cycle. A pair of ioctls has been added by Andrey
  Vagin making it is possible to discover the relationships between
  namespaces when referring to them through file descriptors.

  The big user visible change is starting to add simple resource limits
  to catch programs that misbehave. With namespaces in general and user
  namespaces in particular allowing users to use more kinds of
  resources, it has become important to have something to limit errant
  programs. Because the purpose of these limits is to catch errant
  programs the code needs to be inexpensive to use as it always on, and
  the default limits need to be high enough that well behaved programs
  on well behaved systems don't encounter them.

  To this end, after some review I have implemented per user per user
  namespace limits, and use them to limit the number of namespaces. The
  limits being per user mean that one user can not exhause the limits of
  another user. The limits being per user namespace allow contexts where
  the limit is 0 and security conscious folks can remove from their
  threat anlysis the code used to manage namespaces (as they have
  historically done as it root only). At the same time the limits being
  per user namespace allow other parts of the system to use namespaces.

  Namespaces are increasingly being used in application sand boxing
  scenarios so an all or nothing disable for the entire system for the
  security conscious folks makes increasing use of these sandboxes
  impossible.

  There is also added a limit on the maximum number of mounts present in
  a single mount namespace. It is nontrivial to guess what a reasonable
  system wide limit on the number of mount structure in the kernel would
  be, especially as it various based on how a system is using
  containers. A limit on the number of mounts in a mount namespace
  however is much easier to understand and set. In most cases in
  practice only about 1000 mounts are used. Given that some autofs
  scenarious have the potential to be 30,000 to 50,000 mounts I have set
  the default limit for the number of mounts at 100,000 which is well
  above every known set of users but low enough that the mount hash
  tables don't degrade unreaonsably.

  These limits are a start. I expect this estabilishes a pattern that
  other limits for resources that namespaces use will follow. There has
  been interest in making inotify event limits per user per user
  namespace as well as interest expressed in making details about what
  is going on in the kernel more visible"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (28 commits)
  autofs:  Fix automounts by using current_real_cred()-&gt;uid
  mnt: Add a per mount namespace limit on the number of mounts
  netns: move {inc,dec}_net_namespaces into #ifdef
  nsfs: Simplify __ns_get_path
  tools/testing: add a test to check nsfs ioctl-s
  nsfs: add ioctl to get a parent namespace
  nsfs: add ioctl to get an owning user namespace for ns file descriptor
  kernel: add a helper to get an owning user namespace for a namespace
  devpts: Change the owner of /dev/pts/ptmx to the mounter of /dev/pts
  devpts: Remove sync_filesystems
  devpts: Make devpts_kill_sb safe if fsi is NULL
  devpts: Simplify devpts_mount by using mount_nodev
  devpts: Move the creation of /dev/pts/ptmx into fill_super
  devpts: Move parse_mount_options into fill_super
  userns: When the per user per user namespace limit is reached return ENOSPC
  userns; Document per user per user namespace limits.
  mntns: Add a limit on the number of mount namespaces.
  netns: Add a limit on the number of net namespaces
  cgroupns: Add a limit on the number of cgroup namespaces
  ipcns: Add a  limit on the number of ipc namespaces
  ...
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<title>Merge branch 'linus' into locking/core, to pick up fixes</title>
<updated>2016-09-30T08:54:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-30T08:54:46+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>cgroup: fix error handling regressions in proc_cgroup_show() and cgroup_release_agent()</title>
<updated>2016-09-29T13:55:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-29T13:49:40+00:00</published>
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4c737b41de7f ("cgroup: make cgroup_path() and friends behave in the
style of strlcpy()") broke error handling in proc_cgroup_show() and
cgroup_release_agent() by not handling negative return values from
cgroup_path_ns_locked().  Fix it.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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4c737b41de7f ("cgroup: make cgroup_path() and friends behave in the
style of strlcpy()") broke error handling in proc_cgroup_show() and
cgroup_release_agent() by not handling negative return values from
cgroup_path_ns_locked().  Fix it.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-4.8-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup</title>
<updated>2016-09-27T23:43:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-27T23:43:11+00:00</published>
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Pull cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo:
 "Three late fixes for cgroup: Two cpuset ones, one trivial and the
  other pretty obscure, and a cgroup core fix for a bug which impacts
  cgroup v2 namespace users"

* 'for-4.8-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  cgroup: fix invalid controller enable rejections with cgroup namespace
  cpuset: fix non static symbol warning
  cpuset: handle race between CPU hotplug and cpuset_hotplug_work
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Pull cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo:
 "Three late fixes for cgroup: Two cpuset ones, one trivial and the
  other pretty obscure, and a cgroup core fix for a bug which impacts
  cgroup v2 namespace users"

* 'for-4.8-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  cgroup: fix invalid controller enable rejections with cgroup namespace
  cpuset: fix non static symbol warning
  cpuset: handle race between CPU hotplug and cpuset_hotplug_work
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<title>cgroup: fix invalid controller enable rejections with cgroup namespace</title>
<updated>2016-09-23T20:55:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-23T20:55:49+00:00</published>
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On the v2 hierarchy, "cgroup.subtree_control" rejects controller
enables if the cgroup has processes in it.  The enforcement of this
logic assumes that the cgroup wouldn't have any css_sets associated
with it if there are no tasks in the cgroup, which is no longer true
since a79a908fd2b0 ("cgroup: introduce cgroup namespaces").

When a cgroup namespace is created, it pins the css_set of the
creating task to use it as the root css_set of the namespace.  This
extra reference stays as long as the namespace is around and makes
"cgroup.subtree_control" think that the namespace root cgroup is not
empty even when it is and thus reject controller enables.

Fix it by making cgroup_subtree_control() walk and test emptiness of
each css_set instead of testing whether the list_head is empty.

While at it, update the comment of cgroup_task_count() to indicate
that the returned value may be higher than the number of tasks, which
has always been true due to temporary references and doesn't break
anything.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Evgeny Vereshchagin &lt;evvers@ya.ru&gt;
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn &lt;serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com&gt;
Cc: Aditya Kali &lt;adityakali@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.6+
Fixes: a79a908fd2b0 ("cgroup: introduce cgroup namespaces")
Link: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/3589#issuecomment-249089541
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On the v2 hierarchy, "cgroup.subtree_control" rejects controller
enables if the cgroup has processes in it.  The enforcement of this
logic assumes that the cgroup wouldn't have any css_sets associated
with it if there are no tasks in the cgroup, which is no longer true
since a79a908fd2b0 ("cgroup: introduce cgroup namespaces").

When a cgroup namespace is created, it pins the css_set of the
creating task to use it as the root css_set of the namespace.  This
extra reference stays as long as the namespace is around and makes
"cgroup.subtree_control" think that the namespace root cgroup is not
empty even when it is and thus reject controller enables.

Fix it by making cgroup_subtree_control() walk and test emptiness of
each css_set instead of testing whether the list_head is empty.

While at it, update the comment of cgroup_task_count() to indicate
that the returned value may be higher than the number of tasks, which
has always been true due to temporary references and doesn't break
anything.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Evgeny Vereshchagin &lt;evvers@ya.ru&gt;
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn &lt;serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com&gt;
Cc: Aditya Kali &lt;adityakali@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.6+
Fixes: a79a908fd2b0 ("cgroup: introduce cgroup namespaces")
Link: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/3589#issuecomment-249089541
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<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>
<updated>2016-09-23T00:59:39+00:00</updated>
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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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<title>userns: When the per user per user namespace limit is reached return ENOSPC</title>
<updated>2016-09-22T18:25:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
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The current error codes returned when a the per user per user
namespace limit are hit (EINVAL, EUSERS, and ENFILE) are wrong.  I
asked for advice on linux-api and it we made clear that those were
the wrong error code, but a correct effor code was not suggested.

The best general error code I have found for hitting a resource limit
is ENOSPC.  It is not perfect but as it is unambiguous it will serve
until someone comes up with a better error code.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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The current error codes returned when a the per user per user
namespace limit are hit (EINVAL, EUSERS, and ENFILE) are wrong.  I
asked for advice on linux-api and it we made clear that those were
the wrong error code, but a correct effor code was not suggested.

The best general error code I have found for hitting a resource limit
is ENOSPC.  It is not perfect but as it is unambiguous it will serve
until someone comes up with a better error code.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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