ns: proc files for namespace naming policy.

Create files under /proc/<pid>/ns/ to allow controlling the
namespaces of a process.

This addresses three specific problems that can make namespaces hard to
work with.
- Namespaces require a dedicated process to pin them in memory.
- It is not possible to use a namespace unless you are the child
  of the original creator.
- Namespaces don't have names that userspace can use to talk about
  them.

The namespace files under /proc/<pid>/ns/ can be opened and the
file descriptor can be used to talk about a specific namespace, and
to keep the specified namespace alive.

A namespace can be kept alive by either holding the file descriptor
open or bind mounting the file someplace else.  aka:
mount --bind /proc/self/ns/net /some/filesystem/path
mount --bind /proc/self/fd/<N> /some/filesystem/path

This allows namespaces to be named with userspace policy.

It requires additional support to make use of these filedescriptors
and that will be comming in the following patches.

Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/proc/Makefile b/fs/proc/Makefile
index df434c5f28fb..c1c729335924 100644
--- a/fs/proc/Makefile
+++ b/fs/proc/Makefile
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ proc-y	+= stat.o
 proc-y	+= uptime.o
 proc-y	+= version.o
 proc-y	+= softirqs.o
+proc-y	+= namespaces.o
 proc-$(CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL)	+= proc_sysctl.o
 proc-$(CONFIG_NET)		+= proc_net.o
 proc-$(CONFIG_PROC_KCORE)	+= kcore.o