user/sven/linux.git/kernel/utsname.c, branch v3.18.75

namespaces: Use task_lock and not rcu to protect nsproxy

2014-07-30T01:08:50Z

The synchronous syncrhonize_rcu in switch_task_namespaces makes setns a sufficiently expensive system call that people have complained. Upon inspect nsproxy no longer needs rcu protection for remote reads. remote reads are rare. So optimize for same process reads and write by switching using rask_lock instead. This yields a simpler to understand lock, and a faster setns system call. In particular this fixes a performance regression observed by Rafael David Tinoco . This is effectively a revert of Pavel Emelyanov's commit cf7b708c8d1d7a27736771bcf4c457b332b0f818 Make access to task's nsproxy lighter from 2007. The race this originialy fixed no longer exists as do_notify_parent uses task_active_pid_ns(parent) instead of parent->nsproxy. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"

userns: Kill nsown_capable it makes the wrong thing easy

2013-08-31T06:44:11Z

nsown_capable is a special case of ns_capable essentially for just CAP_SETUID and CAP_SETGID. For the existing users it doesn't noticably simplify things and from the suggested patches I have seen it encourages people to do the wrong thing. So remove nsown_capable. Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"

proc: Split the namespace stuff out into linux/proc_ns.h

2013-05-01T21:29:39Z

Split the proc namespace stuff out into linux/proc_ns.h. Signed-off-by: David Howells cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org cc: Serge E. Hallyn cc: Eric W. Biederman Signed-off-by: Al Viro

kernel/utsname.c: fix wrong comment about clone_uts_ns()

2013-02-28T03:10:22Z

Fix the wrong comment about the return value of clone_uts_ns() Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

userns: Require CAP_SYS_ADMIN for most uses of setns.

2012-12-15T00:12:03Z

Andy Lutomirski found a nasty little bug in the permissions of setns. With unprivileged user namespaces it became possible to create new namespaces without privilege. However the setns calls were relaxed to only require CAP_SYS_ADMIN in the user nameapce of the targed namespace. Which made the following nasty sequence possible. pid = clone(CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_NEWNS); if (pid == 0) { /* child */ system("mount --bind /home/me/passwd /etc/passwd"); } else if (pid != 0) { /* parent */ char path[PATH_MAX]; snprintf(path, sizeof(path), "/proc/%u/ns/mnt"); fd = open(path, O_RDONLY); setns(fd, 0); system("su -"); } Prevent this possibility by requiring CAP_SYS_ADMIN in the current user namespace when joing all but the user namespace. 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: Make create_new_namespaces take a user_ns parameter

2012-11-20T12:17:43Z

Modify create_new_namespaces to explicitly take a user namespace parameter, instead of implicitly through the task_struct. This allows an implementation of unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER) where the new user namespace is not stored onto the current task_struct until after all of the namespaces are created. Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"

userns: Allow unprivileged use of setns.

2012-11-20T12:17:42Z

- Push the permission check from the core setns syscall into the setns install methods where the user namespace of the target namespace can be determined, and used in a ns_capable call. Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"

userns: Use cred->user_ns instead of cred->user->user_ns

2012-04-07T23:55:51Z

Optimize performance and prepare for the removal of the user_ns reference from user_struct. Remove the slow long walk through cred->user->user_ns and instead go straight to cred->user_ns. Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman

kernel: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h

2011-10-31T13:20:12Z

The changed files were only including linux/module.h for the EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure, and nothing else. Revector them onto the isolated export header for faster compile times. Nothing to see here but a whole lot of instances of: -#include +#include This commit is only changing the kernel dir; next targets will probably be mm, fs, the arch dirs, etc. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker