From: Andrew Vagin <avagin@virtuozzo.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>,
Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>,
"criu@openvz.org" <criu@openvz.org>,
Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Containers <containers@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5 RFC] Add an interface to discover relationships between namespaces
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 19:54:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160726025455.GC26206@outlook.office365.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r3ahepb4.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org>
On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 09:59:43AM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> writes:
[snip]
> [snip]
> >>> So, from my point of view, the important piece that was missing from
> >>> your commit message was the note to use readlink("/proc/self/fd/%d")
> >>> on the returned FDs. I think that detail needs to be part of the
> >>> commit message (and also the man page text). I think it even be
> >>> helpful to include the above program as part of the commit message:
> >>> it helps people more quickly grasp the API.
> >>
> >> Please, please make the standard way to compare these things fstat.
> >> That is much less magic than a symlink, and a little more future proof.
> >> Possibly even kcmp.
I like the idea to use kcmp to compare namespaces. I am going to add this
functionality to kcmp and describe all these in the man page.
> >
> > As in fstat() to get the st_ino field, right?
>
> Both the st_ino and st_dev fields.
>
> The most likely change to support checkpoint/restart in the future is to
> preserve st_ino across migrations and instantiate a different instance
> of nsfs to hold the inode numbers from the previous machine.
It sounds tricky. BTW: Actually this is not only one places where we have
this sort of problem. For example, now mount id-s are not preserved when
a container is migrated. The same problem is applied to tmpfs, where
inode numbers are not preserved for files.
>
> We would need to handle the preservation carefully or else there is
> a chance that two namespace file descriptors (collected from different
> sources) with different st_dev and st_ino fields may actuall refer to
> the same object.
>
> Which is a long way of saying we have the st_dev field please use it,
> it may matter at some point.
>
> Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-26 5:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-14 18:20 [PATCH 0/5 RFC] Add an interface to discover relationships between namespaces Andrey Vagin
2016-07-14 18:20 ` [PATCH 1/5] namespaces: move user_ns into ns_common Andrey Vagin
2016-07-15 12:21 ` kbuild test robot
2016-07-14 18:20 ` [PATCH 2/5] kernel: add a helper to get an owning user namespace for a namespace Andrey Vagin
2016-07-14 19:07 ` W. Trevor King
2016-07-14 18:20 ` [PATCH 3/5] nsfs: add ioctl to get an owning user namespace for ns file descriptor Andrey Vagin
2016-07-14 18:48 ` W. Trevor King
2016-07-14 18:20 ` [PATCH 4/5] nsfs: add ioctl to get a parent namespace Andrey Vagin
2016-07-14 18:20 ` [PATCH 5/5] tools/testing: add a test to check nsfs ioctl-s Andrey Vagin
2016-07-14 22:02 ` [PATCH 0/5 RFC] Add an interface to discover relationships between namespaces Andrey Vagin
2016-07-15 2:12 ` [PATCH 1/5] namespaces: move user_ns into ns_common Andrey Vagin
2016-07-15 2:12 ` [PATCH 2/5] kernel: add a helper to get an owning user namespace for a namespace Andrey Vagin
2016-07-24 5:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-07-24 6:37 ` Andrew Vagin
2016-07-24 14:30 ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-07-24 17:05 ` W. Trevor King
2016-07-24 16:54 ` W. Trevor King
2016-07-15 2:12 ` [PATCH 3/5] nsfs: add ioctl to get an owning user namespace for ns file descriptor Andrey Vagin
2016-07-15 2:12 ` [PATCH 4/5] nsfs: add ioctl to get a parent namespace Andrey Vagin
2016-07-24 5:07 ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-07-15 2:12 ` [PATCH 5/5] tools/testing: add a test to check nsfs ioctl-s Andrey Vagin
2016-07-16 8:21 ` [PATCH 1/5] namespaces: move user_ns into ns_common kbuild test robot
2016-07-23 23:07 ` kbuild test robot
2016-07-24 5:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-07-24 5:54 ` Andrew Vagin
[not found] ` <87k2gbmy02.fsf-JOvCrm2gF+uungPnsOpG7nhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org>
2016-07-24 5:54 ` Andrew Vagin
2016-07-24 5:54 ` Andrew Vagin
2016-07-24 5:54 ` Andrew Vagin
2016-07-24 5:10 ` [PATCH 0/5 RFC] Add an interface to discover relationships between namespaces Eric W. Biederman
2016-07-26 2:07 ` Andrew Vagin
2016-07-21 14:41 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2016-07-21 21:06 ` Andrew Vagin
[not found] ` <20160721210650.GA10989-1ViLX0X+lBJGNQ1M2rI3KwRV3xvJKrda@public.gmane.org>
2016-07-22 6:48 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2016-07-22 18:25 ` Andrey Vagin
2016-07-25 11:47 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2016-07-25 13:18 ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-07-25 14:46 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2016-07-25 14:54 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2016-07-25 15:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-07-25 14:59 ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-07-26 2:54 ` Andrew Vagin [this message]
2016-07-26 8:03 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2016-07-26 18:25 ` Andrew Vagin
2016-07-26 18:32 ` W. Trevor King
2016-07-26 19:11 ` Andrew Vagin
2016-07-26 19:17 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2016-07-26 20:39 ` Andrew Vagin
2016-07-28 10:45 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2016-07-28 12:56 ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-07-28 19:00 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2016-07-29 18:05 ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-07-31 21:31 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2016-08-01 23:01 ` Andrew Vagin
2016-07-26 19:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-07-23 21:14 ` W. Trevor King
2016-07-23 21:38 ` James Bottomley
2016-07-23 21:58 ` W. Trevor King
2016-07-23 21:56 ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-07-23 22:34 ` W. Trevor King
2016-07-24 4:51 ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-08-01 18:20 ` Alban Crequy
2016-08-01 23:32 ` Andrew Vagin
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