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author | Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> | 2012-01-13 02:20:27 +0100 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-01-13 05:13:11 +0100 |
commit | b8f566b04d3cddd192cfd2418ae6d54ac6353792 (patch) | |
tree | 32a5bf86548cd43feff4822d800b6a99e157b5d7 /kernel/pid_namespace.c | |
parent | kdump: add udev events for memory online/offline (diff) | |
download | linux-b8f566b04d3cddd192cfd2418ae6d54ac6353792.tar.xz linux-b8f566b04d3cddd192cfd2418ae6d54ac6353792.zip |
sysctl: add the kernel.ns_last_pid control
The sysctl works on the current task's pid namespace, getting and setting
its last_pid field.
Writing is allowed for CAP_SYS_ADMIN-capable tasks thus making it possible
to create a task with desired pid value. This ability is required badly
for the checkpoint/restore in userspace.
This approach suits all the parties for now.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/pid_namespace.c')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/pid_namespace.c | 31 |
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/pid_namespace.c b/kernel/pid_namespace.c index e9c9adc84ca6..a8968396046d 100644 --- a/kernel/pid_namespace.c +++ b/kernel/pid_namespace.c @@ -191,9 +191,40 @@ void zap_pid_ns_processes(struct pid_namespace *pid_ns) return; } +static int pid_ns_ctl_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, + void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) +{ + struct ctl_table tmp = *table; + + if (write && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + return -EPERM; + + /* + * Writing directly to ns' last_pid field is OK, since this field + * is volatile in a living namespace anyway and a code writing to + * it should synchronize its usage with external means. + */ + + tmp.data = ¤t->nsproxy->pid_ns->last_pid; + return proc_dointvec(&tmp, write, buffer, lenp, ppos); +} + +static struct ctl_table pid_ns_ctl_table[] = { + { + .procname = "ns_last_pid", + .maxlen = sizeof(int), + .mode = 0666, /* permissions are checked in the handler */ + .proc_handler = pid_ns_ctl_handler, + }, + { } +}; + +static struct ctl_path kern_path[] = { { .procname = "kernel", }, { } }; + static __init int pid_namespaces_init(void) { pid_ns_cachep = KMEM_CACHE(pid_namespace, SLAB_PANIC); + register_sysctl_paths(kern_path, pid_ns_ctl_table); return 0; } |