kernel/linux.git/include/linux/ipc_namespace.h, branch v6.19.11

Merge tag 'namespace-6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

2025-09-29T18:20:29+00:00

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//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 ...

ipc: port to ns_ref_*() helpers

2025-09-19T14:22:37+00:00

Stop accessing ns.count directly. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

ns: add to__ns() to respective headers

2025-09-19T12:26:16+00:00

Every namespace type has a container_of(ns, , 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 Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

copy_process: pass clone_flags as u64 across calltree

2025-09-01T13:31:34+00:00

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 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250901-nios2-implement-clone3-v2-2-53fcf5577d57@siemens-energy.com Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

ipc/msg: mitigate the lock contention with percpu counter

2022-10-03T21:21:44+00:00

The msg_bytes and msg_hdrs atomic counters are frequently updated when IPC msg queue is in heavy use, causing heavy cache bounce and overhead. Change them to percpu_counter greatly improve the performance. Since there is one percpu struct per namespace, additional memory cost is minimal. Reading of the count done in msgctl call, which is infrequent. So the need to sum up the counts in each CPU is infrequent. Apply the patch and test the pts/stress-ng-1.4.0 -- system v message passing (160 threads). Score gain: 3.99x CPU: ICX 8380 x 2 sockets Core number: 40 x 2 physical cores Benchmark: pts/stress-ng-1.4.0 -- system v message passing (160 threads) [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style cleanups] [jiebin.sun@intel.com: avoid negative value by overflow in msginfo] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220920150809.4014944-1-jiebin.sun@intel.com [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix min() warnings] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220913192538.3023708-3-jiebin.sun@intel.com Signed-off-by: Jiebin Sun Reviewed-by: Tim Chen Cc: Alexander Mikhalitsyn Cc: Alexey Gladkov Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Dennis Zhou Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" Cc: Manfred Spraul Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Vasily Averin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

ipc: Store ipc sysctls in the ipc namespace

2022-03-08T19:39:40+00:00

The ipc sysctls are not available for modification inside the user namespace. Following the mqueue sysctls, we changed the implementation to be more userns friendly. So far, the changes do not provide additional access to files. This will be done in a future patch. Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/be6f9d014276f4dddd0c3aa05a86052856c1c555.1644862280.git.legion@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman

ipc: Store mqueue sysctls in the ipc namespace

2022-03-08T19:39:40+00:00

Right now, the mqueue sysctls take ipc namespaces into account in a rather hacky way. This works in most cases, but does not respect the user namespace. Within the user namespace, the user cannot change the /proc/sys/fs/mqueue/* parametres. This poses a problem in the rootless containers. To solve this I changed the implementation of the mqueue sysctls just like some other sysctls. So far, the changes do not provide additional access to files. This will be done in a future patch. v3: * Don't implemenet set_permissions to keep the current behavior. v2: * Fixed compilation problem if CONFIG_POSIX_MQUEUE_SYSCTL is not specified. Reported-by: kernel test robot Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b0ccbb2489119f1f20c737cf1930c3a9c4e4243a.1644862280.git.legion@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman

shm: extend forced shm destroy to support objects from several IPC nses

2021-11-20T18:35:54+00:00

Currently, the exit_shm() function not designed to work properly when task->sysvshm.shm_clist holds shm objects from different IPC namespaces. This is a real pain when sysctl kernel.shm_rmid_forced = 1, because it leads to use-after-free (reproducer exists). This is an attempt to fix the problem by extending exit_shm mechanism to handle shm's destroy from several IPC ns'es. To achieve that we do several things: 1. add a namespace (non-refcounted) pointer to the struct shmid_kernel 2. during new shm object creation (newseg()/shmget syscall) we initialize this pointer by current task IPC ns 3. exit_shm() fully reworked such that it traverses over all shp's in task->sysvshm.shm_clist and gets IPC namespace not from current task as it was before but from shp's object itself, then call shm_destroy(shp, ns). Note: We need to be really careful here, because as it was said before (1), our pointer to IPC ns non-refcnt'ed. To be on the safe side we using special helper get_ipc_ns_not_zero() which allows to get IPC ns refcounter only if IPC ns not in the "state of destruction". Q/A Q: Why can we access shp->ns memory using non-refcounted pointer? A: Because shp object lifetime is always shorther than IPC namespace lifetime, so, if we get shp object from the task->sysvshm.shm_clist while holding task_lock(task) nobody can steal our namespace. Q: Does this patch change semantics of unshare/setns/clone syscalls? A: No. It's just fixes non-covered case when process may leave IPC namespace without getting task->sysvshm.shm_clist list cleaned up. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/67bb03e5-f79c-1815-e2bf-949c67047418@colorfullife.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211109151501.4921-1-manfred@colorfullife.com Fixes: ab602f79915 ("shm: make exit_shm work proportional to task activity") Co-developed-by: Manfred Spraul Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul Signed-off-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Greg KH Cc: Andrei Vagin Cc: Pavel Tikhomirov Cc: Vasily Averin Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipc: Use generic ns_common::count

2020-08-19T12:13:52+00:00

Switch over ipc 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 Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Acked-by: Christian Brauner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/159644978697.604812.16592754423881032385.stgit@localhost.localdomain Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

ipc/namespace.c: use a work queue to free_ipc

2020-06-08T18:05:56+00:00

the reason is to avoid a delay caused by the synchronize_rcu() call in kern_umount() when the mqueue mount is freed. the code: #define _GNU_SOURCE #include #include #include #include int main() { int i; for (i = 0; i < 1000; i++) if (unshare(CLONE_NEWIPC) < 0) error(EXIT_FAILURE, errno, "unshare"); } goes from Command being timed: "./ipc-namespace" User time (seconds): 0.00 System time (seconds): 0.06 Percent of CPU this job got: 0% Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0:08.05 to Command being timed: "./ipc-namespace" User time (seconds): 0.00 System time (seconds): 0.02 Percent of CPU this job got: 96% Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0:00.03 Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Scrivano Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney Reviewed-by: Waiman Long Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Manfred Spraul Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200225145419.527994-1-gscrivan@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds