user/sven/linux.git/kernel/user_namespace.c, branch v3.8-rc4

userns: Fix typo in description of the limitation of userns_install

2012-12-15T02:36:36Z

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"

proc: Usable inode numbers for the namespace file descriptors.

2012-11-20T12:19:49Z

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

userns: For /proc/self/{uid,gid}_map derive the lower userns from the struct file

2012-11-20T12:18:55Z

To keep things sane in the context of file descriptor passing derive the user namespace that uids are mapped into from the opener of the file instead of from current. When writing to the maps file the lower user namespace must always be the parent user namespace, or setting the mapping simply does not make sense. Enforce that the opener of the file was in the parent user namespace or the user namespace whose mapping is being set. Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"

userns: Implement unshare of the user namespace

2012-11-20T12:18:14Z

- Add CLONE_THREAD to the unshare flags if CLONE_NEWUSER is selected As changing user namespaces is only valid if all there is only a single thread. - Restore the code to add CLONE_VM if CLONE_THREAD is selected and the code to addCLONE_SIGHAND if CLONE_VM is selected. Making the constraints in the code clear. Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"

userns: Implent proc namespace operations

2012-11-20T12:18:13Z

This allows entering a user namespace, and the ability to store a reference to a user namespace with a bind mount. Addition of missing userns_ns_put in userns_install from Gao feng Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"

userns: Allow setting a userns mapping to your current uid.

2012-11-20T12:17:40Z

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"

userns: Add kprojid_t and associated infrastructure in projid.h

2012-09-18T08:01:37Z

Implement kprojid_t a cousin of the kuid_t and kgid_t. The per user namespace mapping of project id values can be set with /proc//projid_map. A full compliment of helpers is provided: make_kprojid, from_kprojid, from_kprojid_munged, kporjid_has_mapping, projid_valid, projid_eq, projid_eq, projid_lt. Project identifiers are part of the generic disk quota interface, although it appears only xfs implements project identifiers currently. The xfs code allows anyone who has permission to set the project identifier on a file to use any project identifier so when setting up the user namespace project identifier mappings I do not require a capability. Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"

userns: Store uid and gid values in struct cred with kuid_t and kgid_t types

2012-05-03T10:28:38Z

cred.h and a few trivial users of struct cred are changed. The rest of the users of struct cred are left for other patches as there are too many changes to make in one go and leave the change reviewable. If the user namespace is disabled and CONFIG_UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS are disabled the code will contiue to compile and behave correctly. Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman

userns: Rework the user_namespace adding uid/gid mapping support

2012-04-26T09:01:39Z

- Convert the old uid mapping functions into compatibility wrappers - Add a uid/gid mapping layer from user space uid and gids to kernel internal uids and gids that is extent based for simplicty and speed. * Working with number space after mapping uids/gids into their kernel internal version adds only mapping complexity over what we have today, leaving the kernel code easy to understand and test. - Add proc files /proc/self/uid_map /proc/self/gid_map These files display the mapping and allow a mapping to be added if a mapping does not exist. - Allow entering the user namespace without a uid or gid mapping. Since we are starting with an existing user our uids and gids still have global mappings so are still valid and useful they just don't have local mappings. The requirement for things to work are global uid and gid so it is odd but perfectly fine not to have a local uid and gid mapping. Not requiring global uid and gid mappings greatly simplifies the logic of setting up the uid and gid mappings by allowing the mappings to be set after the namespace is created which makes the slight weirdness worth it. - Make the mappings in the initial user namespace to the global uid/gid space explicit. Today it is an identity mapping but in the future we may want to twist this for debugging, similar to what we do with jiffies. - Document the memory ordering requirements of setting the uid and gid mappings. We only allow the mappings to be set once and there are no pointers involved so the requirments are trivial but a little atypical. Performance: In this scheme for the permission checks the performance is expected to stay the same as the actuall machine instructions should remain the same. The worst case I could think of is ls -l on a large directory where all of the stat results need to be translated with from kuids and kgids to uids and gids. So I benchmarked that case on my laptop with a dual core hyperthread Intel i5-2520M cpu with 3M of cpu cache. My benchmark consisted of going to single user mode where nothing else was running. On an ext4 filesystem opening 1,000,000 files and looping through all of the files 1000 times and calling fstat on the individuals files. This was to ensure I was benchmarking stat times where the inodes were in the kernels cache, but the inode values were not in the processors cache. My results: v3.4-rc1: ~= 156ns (unmodified v3.4-rc1 with user namespace support disabled) v3.4-rc1-userns-: ~= 155ns (v3.4-rc1 with my user namespace patches and user namespace support disabled) v3.4-rc1-userns+: ~= 164ns (v3.4-rc1 with my user namespace patches and user namespace support enabled) All of the configurations ran in roughly 120ns when I performed tests that ran in the cpu cache. So in summary the performance impact is: 1ns improvement in the worst case with user namespace support compiled out. 8ns aka 5% slowdown in the worst case with user namespace support compiled in. Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman

userns: Simplify the user_namespace by making userns->creator a kuid.

2012-04-26T09:00:59Z

- Transform userns->creator from a user_struct reference to a simple kuid_t, kgid_t pair. In cap_capable this allows the check to see if we are the creator of a namespace to become the classic suser style euid permission check. This allows us to remove the need for a struct cred in the mapping functions and still be able to dispaly the user namespace creators uid and gid as 0. - Remove the now unnecessary delayed_work in free_user_ns. All that is left for free_user_ns to do is to call kmem_cache_free and put_user_ns. Those functions can be called in any context so call them directly from free_user_ns removing the need for delayed work. Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman