The attached patch abstracts out the namespace initialisation so that temporary
namespaces can be set up elsewhere.
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/namespace.c | 8 +-------
include/linux/namespace.h | 15 +++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index 51d3ebc..0194538 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -1688,13 +1688,7 @@ static void __init init_mount_tree(void)
namespace = kmalloc(sizeof(*namespace), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!namespace)
panic("Can't allocate initial namespace");
- atomic_set(&namespace->count, 1);
- INIT_LIST_HEAD(&namespace->list);
- init_waitqueue_head(&namespace->poll);
- namespace->event = 0;
- list_add(&mnt->mnt_list, &namespace->list);
- namespace->root = mnt;
- mnt->mnt_namespace = namespace;
+ init_namespace(namespace, mnt);
init_task.namespace = namespace;
read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
diff --git a/include/linux/namespace.h b/include/linux/namespace.h
index 3abc8e3..ea6fd62 100644
--- a/include/linux/namespace.h
+++ b/include/linux/namespace.h
@@ -17,6 +17,21 @@ extern int copy_namespace(int, struct ta
extern void __put_namespace(struct namespace *namespace);
extern struct namespace *dup_namespace(struct task_struct *, struct fs_struct *);
+static inline void init_namespace(struct namespace *namespace,
+ struct vfsmount *mnt)
+{
+ atomic_set(&namespace->count, 1);
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&namespace->list);
+ init_waitqueue_head(&namespace->poll);
+ namespace->event = 0;
+ namespace->root = mnt;
+
+ if (mnt) {
+ list_add(&mnt->mnt_list, &namespace->list);
+ mnt->mnt_namespace = namespace;
+ }
+}
+
static inline void put_namespace(struct namespace *namespace)
{
if (atomic_dec_and_lock(&namespace->count, &vfsmount_lock))
