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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2011-06-15 10:21:48 -0700
committerZiyan <jaraidaniel@gmail.com>2016-04-03 14:55:57 +0200
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proc: Usable inode numbers for the namespace file descriptors.
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 <ebiederm@xmission.com> (cherry picked from commit 98f842e675f96ffac96e6c50315790912b2812be)
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diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c
index 57a8346..29d34a1 100644
--- a/kernel/pid.c
+++ b/kernel/pid.c
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ struct pid_namespace init_pid_ns = {
.last_pid = 0,
.level = 0,
.child_reaper = &init_task,
+ .proc_inum = PROC_PID_INIT_INO,
};
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(init_pid_ns);