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2025-11-11ns: drop custom reference count initialization for initial namespacesChristian Brauner
Initial namespaces don't modify their reference count anymore. They remain fixed at one so drop the custom refcount initializations. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251110-work-namespace-nstree-fixes-v1-16-e8a9264e0fb9@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-03ns: use NS_COMMON_INIT() for all namespacesChristian Brauner
Now that we have a common initializer use it for all static namespaces. Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-09-29Merge tag 'namespace-6.18-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull namespace updates from Christian Brauner: "This contains a larger set of changes around the generic namespace infrastructure of the kernel. Each specific namespace type (net, cgroup, mnt, ...) embedds a struct ns_common which carries the reference count of the namespace and so on. We open-coded and cargo-culted so many quirks for each namespace type that it just wasn't scalable anymore. So given there's a bunch of new changes coming in that area I've started cleaning all of this up. The core change is to make it possible to correctly initialize every namespace uniformly and derive the correct initialization settings from the type of the namespace such as namespace operations, namespace type and so on. This leaves the new ns_common_init() function with a single parameter which is the specific namespace type which derives the correct parameters statically. This also means the compiler will yell as soon as someone does something remotely fishy. The ns_common_init() addition also allows us to remove ns_alloc_inum() and drops any special-casing of the initial network namespace in the network namespace initialization code that Linus complained about. Another part is reworking the reference counting. The reference counting was open-coded and copy-pasted for each namespace type even though they all followed the same rules. This also removes all open accesses to the reference count and makes it private and only uses a very small set of dedicated helpers to manipulate them just like we do for e.g., files. In addition this generalizes the mount namespace iteration infrastructure introduced a few cycles ago. As reminder, the vfs makes it possible to iterate sequentially and bidirectionally through all mount namespaces on the system or all mount namespaces that the caller holds privilege over. This allow userspace to iterate over all mounts in all mount namespaces using the listmount() and statmount() system call. Each mount namespace has a unique identifier for the lifetime of the systems that is exposed to userspace. The network namespace also has a unique identifier working exactly the same way. This extends the concept to all other namespace types. The new nstree type makes it possible to lookup namespaces purely by their identifier and to walk the namespace list sequentially and bidirectionally for all namespace types, allowing userspace to iterate through all namespaces. Looking up namespaces in the namespace tree works completely locklessly. This also means we can move the mount namespace onto the generic infrastructure and remove a bunch of code and members from struct mnt_namespace itself. There's a bunch of stuff coming on top of this in the future but for now this uses the generic namespace tree to extend a concept introduced first for pidfs a few cycles ago. For a while now we have supported pidfs file handles for pidfds. This has proven to be very useful. This extends the concept to cover namespaces as well. It is possible to encode and decode namespace file handles using the common name_to_handle_at() and open_by_handle_at() apis. As with pidfs file handles, namespace file handles are exhaustive, meaning it is not required to actually hold a reference to nsfs in able to decode aka open_by_handle_at() a namespace file handle. Instead the FD_NSFS_ROOT constant can be passed which will let the kernel grab a reference to the root of nsfs internally and thus decode the file handle. Namespaces file descriptors can already be derived from pidfds which means they aren't subject to overmount protection bugs. IOW, it's irrelevant if the caller would not have access to an appropriate /proc/<pid>/ns/ directory as they could always just derive the namespace based on a pidfd already. It has the same advantage as pidfds. It's possible to reliably and for the lifetime of the system refer to a namespace without pinning any resources and to compare them trivially. Permission checking is kept simple. If the caller is located in the namespace the file handle refers to they are able to open it otherwise they must hold privilege over the owning namespace of the relevant namespace. The namespace file handle layout is exposed as uapi and has a stable and extensible format. For now it simply contains the namespace identifier, the namespace type, and the inode number. The stable format means that userspace may construct its own namespace file handles without going through name_to_handle_at() as they are already allowed for pidfs and cgroup file handles" * tag 'namespace-6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (65 commits) ns: drop assert ns: move ns type into struct ns_common nstree: make struct ns_tree private ns: add ns_debug() ns: simplify ns_common_init() further cgroup: add missing ns_common include ns: use inode initializer for initial namespaces selftests/namespaces: verify initial namespace inode numbers ns: rename to __ns_ref nsfs: port to ns_ref_*() helpers net: port to ns_ref_*() helpers uts: port to ns_ref_*() helpers ipv4: use check_net() net: use check_net() net-sysfs: use check_net() user: port to ns_ref_*() helpers time: port to ns_ref_*() helpers pid: port to ns_ref_*() helpers ipc: port to ns_ref_*() helpers cgroup: port to ns_ref_*() helpers ...
2025-09-25ns: move ns type into struct ns_commonChristian Brauner
It's misplaced in struct proc_ns_operations and ns->ops might be NULL if the namespace is compiled out but we still want to know the type of the namespace for the initial namespace struct. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-09-22ns: simplify ns_common_init() furtherChristian Brauner
Simply derive the ns operations from the namespace type. Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-09-19ns: use inode initializer for initial namespacesChristian Brauner
Just use the common helper we have. Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-09-19ns: rename to __ns_refChristian Brauner
Make it easier to grep and rename to ns_count. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-09-19ns: add ns_common_free()Christian Brauner
And drop ns_free_inum(). Anything common that can be wasted centrally should be wasted in the new common helper. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-09-19nscommon: simplify initializationChristian Brauner
There's a lot of information that namespace implementers don't need to know about at all. Encapsulate this all in the initialization helper. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-09-19ns: add to_<type>_ns() to respective headersChristian Brauner
Every namespace type has a container_of(ns, <ns_type>, ns) static inline function that is currently not exposed in the header. So we have a bunch of places that open-code it via container_of(). Move it to the headers so we can use it directly. Reviewed-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-09-19time: support ns lookupChristian Brauner
Support the generic ns lookup infrastructure to support file handles for namespaces. Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-09-19time: use ns_common_init()Christian Brauner
Don't cargo-cult the same thing over and over. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-09-01copy_process: pass clone_flags as u64 across calltreeSimon Schuster
With the introduction of clone3 in commit 7f192e3cd316 ("fork: add clone3") the effective bit width of clone_flags on all architectures was increased from 32-bit to 64-bit, with a new type of u64 for the flags. However, for most consumers of clone_flags the interface was not changed from the previous type of unsigned long. While this works fine as long as none of the new 64-bit flag bits (CLONE_CLEAR_SIGHAND and CLONE_INTO_CGROUP) are evaluated, this is still undesirable in terms of the principle of least surprise. Thus, this commit fixes all relevant interfaces of callees to sys_clone3/copy_process (excluding the architecture-specific copy_thread) to consistently pass clone_flags as u64, so that no truncation to 32-bit integers occurs on 32-bit architectures. Signed-off-by: Simon Schuster <schuster.simon@siemens-energy.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250901-nios2-implement-clone3-v2-2-53fcf5577d57@siemens-energy.com Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-07-18vdso/vsyscall: Update auxiliary clock data in the datapageThomas Weißschuh
Expose the auxiliary clock data so it can be read from the vDSO. Architectures not using the generic vDSO time framework, namely SPARC64, are not supported. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250701-vdso-auxclock-v1-11-df7d9f87b9b8@linutronix.de
2025-03-08vdso: Rework struct vdso_time_data and introduce struct vdso_clockAnna-Maria Behnsen
To support multiple PTP clocks, the VDSO data structure needs to be reworked. All clock specific data will end up in struct vdso_clock and in struct vdso_time_data there will be an array of VDSO clocks. Now that all preparatory changes are in place: Split the clock related struct members into a separate struct vdso_clock. Make sure all users are aware, that vdso_time_data is no longer initialized as an array and vdso_clock is now the array inside vdso_data. Remove the vdso_clock define, which mapped it to vdso_time_data for the transition. Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250303-vdso-clock-v1-19-c1b5c69a166f@linutronix.de
2025-03-08time/namespace: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clockAnna-Maria Behnsen
To support multiple PTP clocks, the VDSO data structure needs to be reworked. All clock specific data will end up in struct vdso_clock and in struct vdso_time_data there will be array of VDSO clocks. At the moment, vdso_clock is simply a define which maps vdso_clock to vdso_time_data. To prepare for the rework of the data structures, replace the struct vdso_time_data pointer with a struct vdso_clock pointer where applicable. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250303-vdso-clock-v1-14-c1b5c69a166f@linutronix.de
2025-03-08vdso/namespace: Rename timens_setup_vdso_data() to reflect new vdso_clock structAnna-Maria Behnsen
To support multiple PTP clocks, the VDSO data structure needs to be reworked. All clock specific data will end up in struct vdso_clock and in struct vdso_time_data there will be array of VDSO clocks. At the moment, vdso_clock is simply a define which maps vdso_clock to vdso_time_data. For time namespaces, vdso_time_data needs to be set up. But only the clock related part of the vdso_data thats requires this setup. To reflect the future struct vdso_clock, rename timens_setup_vdso_data() to timns_setup_vdso_clock_data(). No functional change. Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250303-vdso-clock-v1-13-c1b5c69a166f@linutronix.de
2025-02-21vdso: Remove remnants of architecture-specific time storageThomas Weißschuh
All users of the time releated parts of the vDSO are now using the generic storage implementation. Remove the therefore unnecessary compatibility accessor functions and symbols. Co-developed-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250204-vdso-store-rng-v3-18-13a4669dfc8c@linutronix.de
2022-12-01vdso/timens: Refactor copy-pasted find_timens_vvar_page() helper into one copyJann Horn
find_timens_vvar_page() is not architecture-specific, as can be seen from how all five per-architecture versions of it are the same. (arm64, powerpc and riscv are exactly the same; x86 and s390 have two characters difference inside a comment, less blank lines, and mark the !CONFIG_TIME_NS version as inline.) Refactor the five copies into a central copy in kernel/time/namespace.c. Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221130115320.2918447-1-jannh@google.com
2021-09-03memcg: enable accounting for new namesapces and struct nsproxyVasily Averin
Container admin can create new namespaces and force kernel to allocate up to several pages of memory for the namespaces and its associated structures. Net and uts namespaces have enabled accounting for such allocations. It makes sense to account for rest ones to restrict the host's memory consumption from inside the memcg-limited container. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5525bcbf-533e-da27-79b7-158686c64e13@virtuozzo.com Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Acked-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Cc: Yutian Yang <nglaive@gmail.com> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-02-05timens: Delete no-op time_ns_init()Alexey Dobriyan
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201228215402.GA572900@localhost.localdomain
2020-12-14Merge tag 'fixes-v5.11' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux Pull misc fixes from Christian Brauner: "This contains several fixes which felt worth being combined into a single branch: - Use put_nsproxy() instead of open-coding it switch_task_namespaces() - Kirill's work to unify lifecycle management for all namespaces. The lifetime counters are used identically for all namespaces types. Namespaces may of course have additional unrelated counters and these are not altered. This work allows us to unify the type of the counters and reduces maintenance cost by moving the counter in one place and indicating that basic lifetime management is identical for all namespaces. - Peilin's fix adding three byte padding to Dmitry's PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO uapi struct to prevent an info leak. - Two smal patches to convert from the /* fall through */ comment annotation to the fallthrough keyword annotation which I had taken into my branch and into -next before df561f6688fe ("treewide: Use fallthrough pseudo-keyword") made it upstream which fixed this tree-wide. Since I didn't want to invalidate all testing for other commits I didn't rebase and kept them" * tag 'fixes-v5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux: nsproxy: use put_nsproxy() in switch_task_namespaces() sys: Convert to the new fallthrough notation signal: Convert to the new fallthrough notation time: Use generic ns_common::count cgroup: Use generic ns_common::count mnt: Use generic ns_common::count user: Use generic ns_common::count pid: Use generic ns_common::count ipc: Use generic ns_common::count uts: Use generic ns_common::count net: Use generic ns_common::count ns: Add a common refcount into ns_common ptrace: Prevent kernel-infoleak in ptrace_get_syscall_info()
2020-11-18namespace: make timens_on_fork() return nothingHui Su
timens_on_fork() always return 0, and maybe not need to judge the return value in copy_namespaces(). So make timens_on_fork() return nothing and do not judge its return val in copy_namespaces(). Signed-off-by: Hui Su <sh_def@163.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201117161750.GA45121@rlk Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
2020-08-19time: Use generic ns_common::countKirill Tkhai
Switch over time namespaces to use the newly introduced common lifetime counter. Currently every namespace type has its own lifetime counter which is stored in the specific namespace struct. The lifetime counters are used identically for all namespaces types. Namespaces may of course have additional unrelated counters and these are not altered. This introduces a common lifetime counter into struct ns_common. The ns_common struct encompasses information that all namespaces share. That should include the lifetime counter since its common for all of them. It also allows us to unify the type of the counters across all namespaces. Most of them use refcount_t but one uses atomic_t and at least one uses kref. Especially the last one doesn't make much sense since it's just a wrapper around refcount_t since 2016 and actually complicates cleanup operations by having to use container_of() to cast the correct namespace struct out of struct ns_common. Having the lifetime counter for the namespaces in one place reduces maintenance cost. Not just because after switching all namespaces over we will have removed more code than we added but also because the logic is more easily understandable and we indicate to the user that the basic lifetime requirements for all namespaces are currently identical. Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/159644982033.604812.9406853013011123238.stgit@localhost.localdomain Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
2020-07-08nsproxy: support CLONE_NEWTIME with setns()Christian Brauner
So far setns() was missing time namespace support. This was partially due to it simply not being implemented but also because vdso_join_timens() could still fail which made switching to multiple namespaces atomically problematic. This is now fixed so support CLONE_NEWTIME with setns() Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Reviewed-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> Cc: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200706154912.3248030-4-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
2020-07-08timens: add timens_commit() helperChristian Brauner
Wrap the calls to timens_set_vvar_page() and vdso_join_timens() in timens_on_fork() and timens_install() in a new timens_commit() helper. We'll use this helper in a follow-up patch in nsproxy too. Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Reviewed-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200706154912.3248030-3-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
2020-07-08timens: make vdso_join_timens() always succeedChristian Brauner
As discussed on-list (cf. [1]), in order to make setns() support time namespaces when attaching to multiple namespaces at once properly we need to tweak vdso_join_timens() to always succeed. So switch vdso_join_timens() to using a read lock and replacing mmap_write_lock_killable() to mmap_read_lock() as we discussed. Last cycle setns() was changed to support attaching to multiple namespaces atomically. This requires all namespaces to have a point of no return where they can't fail anymore. Specifically, <namespace-type>_install() is allowed to perform permission checks and install the namespace into the new struct nsset that it has been given but it is not allowed to make visible changes to the affected task. Once <namespace-type>_install() returns anything that the given namespace type requires to be setup in addition needs to ideally be done in a function that can't fail or if it fails the failure is not fatal. For time namespaces the relevant functions that fall into this category are timens_set_vvar_page() and vdso_join_timens(). Currently the latter can fail but doesn't need to. With this we can go on to implement a timens_commit() helper in a follow up patch to be used by setns(). [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200611110221.pgd3r5qkjrjmfqa2@wittgenstein Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Reviewed-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200706154912.3248030-2-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
2020-05-09nsproxy: add struct nssetChristian Brauner
Add a simple struct nsset. It holds all necessary pieces to switch to a new set of namespaces without leaving a task in a half-switched state which we will make use of in the next patch. This patch switches the existing setns logic over without causing a change in setns() behavior. This brings setns() closer to how unshare() works(). The prepare_ns() function is responsible to prepare all necessary information. This has two reasons. First it minimizes dependencies between individual namespaces, i.e. all install handler can expect that all fields are properly initialized independent in what order they are called in. Second, this makes the code easier to maintain and easier to follow if it needs to be changed. The prepare_ns() helper will only be switched over to use a flags argument in the next patch. Here it will still use nstype as a simple integer argument which was argued would be clearer. I'm not particularly opinionated about this if it really helps or not. The struct nsset itself already contains the flags field since its name already indicates that it can contain information required by different namespaces. None of this should have functional consequences. Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Reviewed-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200505140432.181565-2-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
2020-04-16proc, time/namespace: Show clock symbolic names in /proc/pid/timens_offsetsAndrei Vagin
Michael Kerrisk suggested to replace numeric clock IDs with symbolic names. Now the content of these files looks like this: $ cat /proc/774/timens_offsets monotonic 864000 0 boottime 1728000 0 For setting offsets, both representations of clocks (numeric and symbolic) can be used. As for compatibility, it is acceptable to change things as long as userspace doesn't care. The format of timens_offsets files is very new and there are no userspace tools yet which rely on this format. But three projects crun, util-linux and criu rely on the interface of setting time offsets and this is why it's required to continue supporting the numeric clock IDs on write. Fixes: 04a8682a71be ("fs/proc: Introduce /proc/pid/timens_offsets") Suggested-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200411154031.642557-1-avagin@gmail.com
2020-04-07time/namespace: Fix time_for_children symlinkMichael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Looking at the contents of the /proc/PID/ns/time_for_children symlink shows an anomaly: $ ls -l /proc/self/ns/* |awk '{print $9, $10, $11}' ... /proc/self/ns/pid -> pid:[4026531836] /proc/self/ns/pid_for_children -> pid:[4026531836] /proc/self/ns/time -> time:[4026531834] /proc/self/ns/time_for_children -> time_for_children:[4026531834] /proc/self/ns/user -> user:[4026531837] ... The reference for 'time_for_children' should be a 'time' namespace, just as the reference for 'pid_for_children' is a 'pid' namespace. In other words, the above time_for_children link should read: /proc/self/ns/time_for_children -> time:[4026531834] Fixes: 769071ac9f20 ("ns: Introduce Time Namespace") Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com> Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Acked-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a2418c48-ed80-3afe-116e-6611cb799557@gmail.com
2020-02-17lib/vdso: Move VCLOCK_TIMENS to vdso_clock_modesThomas Gleixner
Move the time namespace indicator clock mode to the other ones for consistency sake. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200207124403.656097274@linutronix.de
2020-01-14fs/proc: Introduce /proc/pid/timens_offsetsAndrei Vagin
API to set time namespace offsets for children processes, i.e.: echo "$clockid $offset_sec $offset_nsec" > /proc/self/timens_offsets Co-developed-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com> Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191112012724.250792-28-dima@arista.com
2020-01-14x86/vdso: Zap vvar pages when switching to a time namespaceDmitry Safonov
The VVAR page layout depends on whether a task belongs to the root or non-root time namespace. Whenever a task changes its namespace, the VVAR page tables are cleared and then they will be re-faulted with a corresponding layout. Co-developed-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191112012724.250792-27-dima@arista.com
2020-01-14time: Allocate per-timens vvar pageDmitry Safonov
VDSO support for Time namespace needs to set up a page with the same layout as VVAR. That timens page will be placed on position of VVAR page inside namespace. That page contains time namespace clock offsets and it has vdso_data->seq set to 1 to enforce the slow path and vdso_data->clock_mode set to VCLOCK_TIMENS to enforce the time namespace handling path. Allocate the timens page during namespace creation. Setup the offsets when the first task enters the ns and freeze them to guarantee the pace of monotonic/boottime clocks and to avoid breakage of applications. The design decision is to have a global offset_lock which is used during namespace offsets setup and to freeze offsets when the first task joins the new time namespace. That is better in terms of memory usage compared to having a per namespace mutex that's used only during the setup period. Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Based-on-work-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Co-developed-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191112012724.250792-24-dima@arista.com
2020-01-14time: Add do_timens_ktime_to_host() helperAndrei Vagin
The helper subtracts namespace's clock offset from the given time and ensures that the result is within [0, KTIME_MAX]. Co-developed-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com> Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191112012724.250792-13-dima@arista.com
2020-01-14time: Add timens_offsets to be used for tasks in time namespaceAndrei Vagin
Introduce offsets for time namespace. They will contain an adjustment needed to convert clocks to/from host's. A new namespace is created with the same offsets as the time namespace of the current process. Co-developed-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com> Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191112012724.250792-5-dima@arista.com
2020-01-14ns: Introduce Time NamespaceAndrei Vagin
Time Namespace isolates clock values. The kernel provides access to several clocks CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, CLOCK_BOOTTIME, etc. CLOCK_REALTIME System-wide clock that measures real (i.e., wall-clock) time. CLOCK_MONOTONIC Clock that cannot be set and represents monotonic time since some unspecified starting point. CLOCK_BOOTTIME Identical to CLOCK_MONOTONIC, except it also includes any time that the system is suspended. For many users, the time namespace means the ability to changes date and time in a container (CLOCK_REALTIME). Providing per namespace notions of CLOCK_REALTIME would be complex with a massive overhead, but has a dubious value. But in the context of checkpoint/restore functionality, monotonic and boottime clocks become interesting. Both clocks are monotonic with unspecified starting points. These clocks are widely used to measure time slices and set timers. After restoring or migrating processes, it has to be guaranteed that they never go backward. In an ideal case, the behavior of these clocks should be the same as for a case when a whole system is suspended. All this means that it is required to set CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME clocks, which can be achieved by adding per-namespace offsets for clocks. A time namespace is similar to a pid namespace in the way how it is created: unshare(CLONE_NEWTIME) system call creates a new time namespace, but doesn't set it to the current process. Then all children of the process will be born in the new time namespace, or a process can use the setns() system call to join a namespace. This scheme allows setting clock offsets for a namespace, before any processes appear in it. All available clone flags have been used, so CLONE_NEWTIME uses the highest bit of CSIGNAL. It means that it can be used only with the unshare() and the clone3() system calls. [ tglx: Adjusted paragraph about clone3() to reality and massaged the changelog a bit. ] Co-developed-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com> Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://criu.org/Time_namespace Link: https://lists.openvz.org/pipermail/criu/2018-June/041504.html Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191112012724.250792-4-dima@arista.com