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>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/proc_fs.h b/include/linux/proc_fs.h
index bf1d000fbba..2e24018b7ce 100644
--- a/include/linux/proc_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/proc_fs.h
@@ -28,7 +28,11 @@ struct mm_struct;
  */
 
 enum {
-        PROC_ROOT_INO = 1,
+        PROC_ROOT_INO           = 1,
+        PROC_IPC_INIT_INO       = 0xEFFFFFFFU,
+        PROC_UTS_INIT_INO       = 0xEFFFFFFEU,
+        PROC_USER_INIT_INO      = 0xEFFFFFFDU,
+        PROC_PID_INIT_INO       = 0xEFFFFFFCU,
 };
 
 /*
@@ -263,6 +267,7 @@ struct proc_ns_operations {
         void *(*get)(struct task_struct *task);
         void (*put)(void *ns);
         int (*install)(struct nsproxy *nsproxy, void *ns);
+        unsigned int (*inum)(void *ns);
 };
 extern const struct proc_ns_operations netns_operations;
 extern const struct proc_ns_operations utsns_operations;