Re: [PATCH 3/8] ns proc: Add support for the network namespace.

[ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)]

Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com> writes:

> On 23/09/10  1:47 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> 
>> Implementing file descriptors for the network namespace is simple and
>> straight forward.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
>
> [...]
>
>> diff --git a/net/core/net_namespace.c b/net/core/net_namespace.c
>> index c988e68..581a088 100644
>> --- a/net/core/net_namespace.c
>> +++ b/net/core/net_namespace.c
>> @@ -571,3 +571,33 @@ void unregister_pernet_device(struct pernet_operations *ops)
>>  	mutex_unlock(&net_mutex);
>>  }
>>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(unregister_pernet_device);
>> +
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_NET_NS
>> +static void *netns_get(struct task_struct *task)
>> +{
>> +	struct net *net;
>> +	rcu_read_lock();
>> +	net = get_net(task->nsproxy->net_ns);
>
> task could be exiting, so task->nsproxy could be NULL, right?
> Maybe make proc_ns_instantiate() rcu_dereference task->nsproxy, check for it
> being not NULL, and pass task->nsproxy to ns_ops->get()?

Ugh.  Thanks. fixed.

Somehow I forgot /proc shows zombies which means nsproxy
will definitely be NULL in those cases.  It is easy enough to handle
once my brain gets out of park.

I don't hold any locks at that point so I don't think I want to do
anything in proc_ns_instantiate() except handle a NULL return when
the ns_ops->get() fails.

> That could be an issue for the user namespace since it is not in nsproxy, but
> maybe no reasonable usage of ns_ops with user namespaces is
> envisioned.

It is also a issue for the pid namespace.  

> Otherwise, checking that task is alive with RCU locked in proc_ns_instantiate() should be enough to be
> rely on task->cred when calling ns_ops->get().

That sounds about right.  I keep conveniently forgetting the user
namespace.  It doesn't support unshare right now so there isn't anything
I can reasonably do with it at the moment.  It wouldn't surprise me if I
don't wind up handling the user namespace like the pid namespace, where
unsharing it changes the properties for the children and not the parent.
Bleh.

Eric