proc: Usable inode numbers for the namespace file descriptors.

Assign a unique proc inode to each namespace, and use that
inode number to ensure we only allocate at most one proc
inode for every namespace in proc.

A single proc inode per namespace allows userspace to test
to see if two processes are in the same namespace.

This has been a long requested feature and only blocked because
a naive implementation would put the id in a global space and
would ultimately require having a namespace for the names of
namespaces, making migration and certain virtualization tricks
impossible.

We still don't have per superblock inode numbers for proc, which
appears necessary for application unaware checkpoint/restart and
migrations (if the application is using namespace file descriptors)
but that is now allowd by the design if it becomes important.

I have preallocated the ipc and uts initial proc inode numbers so
their structures can be statically initialized.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/utsname.h b/include/linux/utsname.h
index 221f4a0a7502..239e27733d6c 100644
--- a/include/linux/utsname.h
+++ b/include/linux/utsname.h
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ struct uts_namespace {
 	struct kref kref;
 	struct new_utsname name;
 	struct user_namespace *user_ns;
+	unsigned int proc_inum;
 };
 extern struct uts_namespace init_uts_ns;