Re: [PATCH 1/4] kernel: add a helper to get an owning user namespace for a namespace

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On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 04:08:08PM -0700, Andrei Vagin wrote:
> From: Andrey Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Return -EPERM if an owning user namespace is outside of a process
> current user namespace.
> 
> v2: In a first version ns_get_owner returned ENOENT for init_user_ns.
>     This special cases was removed from this version. There is nothing
>     outside of init_user_ns, so we can return EPERM.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/namespace.c                 |  6 ++++++
>  include/linux/proc_ns.h        |  1 +
>  include/linux/user_namespace.h |  7 +++++++
>  ipc/namespace.c                |  6 ++++++
>  kernel/cgroup.c                |  6 ++++++
>  kernel/pid_namespace.c         |  6 ++++++
>  kernel/user_namespace.c        | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  kernel/utsname.c               |  6 ++++++
>  net/core/net_namespace.c       |  6 ++++++
>  9 files changed, 68 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
> index 491b8f3..f985817 100644
> --- a/fs/namespace.c
> +++ b/fs/namespace.c
> @@ -3368,10 +3368,16 @@ static int mntns_install(struct nsproxy *nsproxy, struct ns_common *ns)
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> +static struct user_namespace *mntns_get_owner(struct ns_common *ns)
> +{
> +	return to_mnt_ns(ns)->user_ns;

Hi - sorry to be pedantic here, but *_get_owner makes me think
it will grab a reference too.  A bit unfortunate, maybe it doesn't
matter, but would mntns_owner(), netns_owner(), etc be better?
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