Re: [RFC PATCH 3/8] kmod - teach call_usermodehelper() to use a namespace

[Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>]

On 02/16, Ian Kent wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2015-02-10 at 17:55 +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > On 02/10, Ian Kent wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2015-02-09 at 17:03 +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I understand. but I still can't understand why we can't implement something
> > > > like
> > > > 	enter_ns(struct nsproxy *p)
> > > > 	{
> > > > 		new_nsproxy = create_new_namespaces(...);
> > > >
> > > > 		p->mnt_ns->ns->ops->install(new_nsproxy, ...);
> > > > 		p->pid_ns_for_children->ns->ops->install(new_nsproxy, ...);
> > > > 		...
> > > >
> > > > 		switch_task_namespaces(new_nsproxy);
> > > > 	}
> > > >
> > > > Why we should abuse fs/proc ?
> > >
> > > That sounds like a much better approach.
> > > Your saying just take a reference to the nsproxy from the located
> > > process and use it instead, right?
> >
> > Yes,
>
> I'm still not sure if this can be done (at least without surgery to the
> namespace implementation) and I think I've been here before which is
> what lead to the file_open_root() approach.
>
> The difficulty is the second parameter to the install() call above, the
> struct ns_common. In setns() it's obtained from the procfs file inode
> and the file open is what's used to obtain each namespace type (in the
> form of a struct ns_common) from a process context different from
> current, current being the thread runner process.
>
> I might still be able to work out a (viable) way to obtain the
> appropriate ns_common struct in each case without a file open but it's
> hard to see how.

Not sure I understand... Every "namespace" pointer "struct nsproxy" has
the "struct ns_common ns" you need? So you can do (for example)

	p->mnt_ns->ns->ops->install(new_nsproxy, &p->mnt_ns->ns);

or I missed something? (userns differs, you need cred->user_ns, of course).


Perhaps I missed something, but this doesn't look like a problem...

The real problem is that , let me repeat, is that pidns_install() does not
and can't change active_pid_ns. So I think that kernel_thread_in_ns() probably
make more sense.

Oleg.