setns() affecting other threads in 5.10.132 and 6.0

[David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>]

Sometime after 5.10.105 (5.10.132 and 6.0) there is a change that
makes setns(open("/proc/1/ns/net")) in the main process change
the behaviour of other process threads.

I don't know how much is broken, but the following fails.

Create a network namespace (eg "test").
Create a 'bond' interface (eg "test0") in the namespace.

Then /proc/net/bonding/test0 only exists inside the namespace.

However if you run a program in the "test" namespace that does:
- create a thread.
- change the main thread to in "init" namespace.
- try to open /proc/net/bonding/test0 in the thread.
then the open fails.

I don't know how much else is affected and haven't tried
to bisect (I can't create bonds on my normal test kernel).

The test program below shows the problem.
Compile and run as:
# ip netns exec test strace -f test_prog /proc/net/bonding/test0

The second open by the child should succeed, but fails.

I can't see any changes to the bonding code, so I suspect
it is something much more fundamental.
It might only affect /proc/net, but it might also affect
which namespace sockets get created in.
IIRC ls -l /proc/n/task/*/ns gives the correct namespaces.

	David


#define _GNU_SOURCE

#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <poll.h>
#include <pthread.h>
#include <sched.h>

#define delay(secs) poll(0,0, (secs) * 1000)

static void *thread_fn(void *file)
{
        delay(2);
        open(file, O_RDONLY);

        delay(5);
        open(file, O_RDONLY);

        return NULL;
}

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
        pthread_t id;

        pthread_create(&id, NULL, thread_fn, argv[1]);

        delay(1);
        open(argv[1], O_RDONLY);

        delay(2);
        setns(open("/proc/1/ns/net", O_RDONLY), 0);

        delay(1);
        open(argv[1], O_RDONLY);

        delay(4);

        return 0;
}

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