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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2026-04-13 13:02:49 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2026-04-13 13:02:49 -0700
commitdc0dfa73381bc8b2ebd298face5dbe7e240cd80c (patch)
tree99718e7fb9d7920fe081b91a7d10fe3b909e99bc
parentfc825e513cd494cfcbeb47acf5738fe64f3a9051 (diff)
parent935a04923ad293cd89bf6ec23fc4efc9cf1a0142 (diff)
Merge tag 'namespaces-7.1-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull namespace update from Christian Brauner: "Add two simple helper macros for the namespace infrastructure" * tag 'namespaces-7.1-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: nsproxy: Add FOR_EACH_NS_TYPE() X-macro and CLONE_NS_ALL
-rw-r--r--include/linux/ns/ns_common_types.h44
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c7
-rw-r--r--kernel/nsproxy.c13
3 files changed, 41 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/ns/ns_common_types.h b/include/linux/ns/ns_common_types.h
index 0014fbc1c626..ea45c54e4435 100644
--- a/include/linux/ns/ns_common_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/ns/ns_common_types.h
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
#include <linux/rbtree.h>
#include <linux/refcount.h>
#include <linux/types.h>
+#include <uapi/linux/sched.h>
struct cgroup_namespace;
struct dentry;
@@ -184,15 +185,38 @@ struct ns_common {
struct user_namespace *: (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_USER_NS) ? &userns_operations : NULL), \
struct uts_namespace *: (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_UTS_NS) ? &utsns_operations : NULL))
-#define ns_common_type(__ns) \
- _Generic((__ns), \
- struct cgroup_namespace *: CLONE_NEWCGROUP, \
- struct ipc_namespace *: CLONE_NEWIPC, \
- struct mnt_namespace *: CLONE_NEWNS, \
- struct net *: CLONE_NEWNET, \
- struct pid_namespace *: CLONE_NEWPID, \
- struct time_namespace *: CLONE_NEWTIME, \
- struct user_namespace *: CLONE_NEWUSER, \
- struct uts_namespace *: CLONE_NEWUTS)
+/*
+ * FOR_EACH_NS_TYPE - Canonical list of namespace types
+ *
+ * Enumerates all (struct type, CLONE_NEW* flag) pairs. This is the
+ * single source of truth used to derive ns_common_type() and
+ * CLONE_NS_ALL. When adding a new namespace type, add a single entry
+ * here; all consumers update automatically.
+ *
+ * @X: Callback macro taking (struct_name, clone_flag) as arguments.
+ */
+#define FOR_EACH_NS_TYPE(X) \
+ X(cgroup_namespace, CLONE_NEWCGROUP) \
+ X(ipc_namespace, CLONE_NEWIPC) \
+ X(mnt_namespace, CLONE_NEWNS) \
+ X(net, CLONE_NEWNET) \
+ X(pid_namespace, CLONE_NEWPID) \
+ X(time_namespace, CLONE_NEWTIME) \
+ X(user_namespace, CLONE_NEWUSER) \
+ X(uts_namespace, CLONE_NEWUTS)
+
+/* Bitmask of all known CLONE_NEW* flags. */
+#define _NS_TYPE_FLAG_OR(struct_name, flag) | (flag)
+#define CLONE_NS_ALL (0 FOR_EACH_NS_TYPE(_NS_TYPE_FLAG_OR))
+
+/*
+ * ns_common_type - Map a namespace struct pointer to its CLONE_NEW* flag
+ *
+ * Uses a leading-comma pattern so the FOR_EACH_NS_TYPE expansion
+ * produces ", struct foo *: FLAG" entries without a trailing comma.
+ */
+#define _NS_TYPE_ASSOC(struct_name, flag) , struct struct_name *: (flag)
+
+#define ns_common_type(__ns) _Generic((__ns)FOR_EACH_NS_TYPE(_NS_TYPE_ASSOC))
#endif /* _LINUX_NS_COMMON_TYPES_H */
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index bc2bf58b93b6..a4ec2d1e25ee 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
#include <linux/mm_inline.h>
#include <linux/memblock.h>
#include <linux/nsproxy.h>
+#include <linux/ns/ns_common_types.h>
#include <linux/capability.h>
#include <linux/cpu.h>
#include <linux/cgroup.h>
@@ -3045,11 +3046,9 @@ void __init proc_caches_init(void)
*/
static int check_unshare_flags(unsigned long unshare_flags)
{
- if (unshare_flags & ~(CLONE_THREAD|CLONE_FS|CLONE_NEWNS|CLONE_SIGHAND|
+ if (unshare_flags & ~(CLONE_THREAD|CLONE_FS|CLONE_SIGHAND|
CLONE_VM|CLONE_FILES|CLONE_SYSVSEM|
- CLONE_NEWUTS|CLONE_NEWIPC|CLONE_NEWNET|
- CLONE_NEWUSER|CLONE_NEWPID|CLONE_NEWCGROUP|
- CLONE_NEWTIME))
+ CLONE_NS_ALL))
return -EINVAL;
/*
* Not implemented, but pretend it works if there is nothing
diff --git a/kernel/nsproxy.c b/kernel/nsproxy.c
index 259c4b4f1eeb..63b44ee79847 100644
--- a/kernel/nsproxy.c
+++ b/kernel/nsproxy.c
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/export.h>
#include <linux/nsproxy.h>
+#include <linux/ns/ns_common_types.h>
#include <linux/init_task.h>
#include <linux/mnt_namespace.h>
#include <linux/utsname.h>
@@ -170,9 +171,7 @@ int copy_namespaces(u64 flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
struct user_namespace *user_ns = task_cred_xxx(tsk, user_ns);
struct nsproxy *new_ns;
- if (likely(!(flags & (CLONE_NEWNS | CLONE_NEWUTS | CLONE_NEWIPC |
- CLONE_NEWPID | CLONE_NEWNET |
- CLONE_NEWCGROUP | CLONE_NEWTIME)))) {
+ if (likely(!(flags & (CLONE_NS_ALL & ~CLONE_NEWUSER)))) {
if ((flags & CLONE_VM) ||
likely(old_ns->time_ns_for_children == old_ns->time_ns)) {
get_nsproxy(old_ns);
@@ -214,9 +213,7 @@ int unshare_nsproxy_namespaces(unsigned long unshare_flags,
struct user_namespace *user_ns;
int err = 0;
- if (!(unshare_flags & (CLONE_NEWNS | CLONE_NEWUTS | CLONE_NEWIPC |
- CLONE_NEWNET | CLONE_NEWPID | CLONE_NEWCGROUP |
- CLONE_NEWTIME)))
+ if (!(unshare_flags & (CLONE_NS_ALL & ~CLONE_NEWUSER)))
return 0;
user_ns = new_cred ? new_cred->user_ns : current_user_ns();
@@ -292,9 +289,7 @@ int exec_task_namespaces(void)
static int check_setns_flags(unsigned long flags)
{
- if (!flags || (flags & ~(CLONE_NEWNS | CLONE_NEWUTS | CLONE_NEWIPC |
- CLONE_NEWNET | CLONE_NEWTIME | CLONE_NEWUSER |
- CLONE_NEWPID | CLONE_NEWCGROUP)))
+ if (!flags || (flags & ~CLONE_NS_ALL))
return -EINVAL;
#ifndef CONFIG_USER_NS