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2016-09-23nsfs: add ioctl to get a parent namespaceAndrey Vagin1-0/+2
Pid and user namepaces are hierarchical. There is no way to discover parent-child relationships. In a future we will use this interface to dump and restore nested namespaces. Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2016-09-23nsfs: add ioctl to get an owning user namespace for ns file descriptorAndrey Vagin1-0/+11
Each namespace has an owning user namespace and now there is not way to discover these relationships. Understending namespaces relationships allows to answer the question: what capability does process X have to perform operations on a resource governed by namespace Y? After a long discussion, Eric W. Biederman proposed to use ioctl-s for this purpose. The NS_GET_USERNS ioctl returns a file descriptor to an owning user namespace. It returns EPERM if a target namespace is outside of a current user namespace. v2: rename parent to relative v3: Add a missing mntput when returning -EAGAIN --EWB Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/7/6/158 Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>