The initial namespace is special in many ways. One feature it always has
had is that it propagates all its devices into all non-initial
namespaces. This is e.g. true for all device classes under /sys/class/
except the net_class. Even though none of the propagated files can be
used there are still a lot of read-only values that are accessed or read
by tools running in non-initial namespaces. To not regress such
workloads we introduce the ability to tell kernfs to continue
propagating devices from the initial namespace even when the kernfs_node
is tagged with a non-initial namespace. Note that this is a purely
opt-in feature, i.e. if there were a new device class that wanted to
make use of this new infrastructure and did not want to propagate any
devices into non-initial namespaces it could simply not implement the
relevant callback.
When a new directory in sysfs is created sysfs now can simply check
whether the relevant device wants to propagate objects from the initial
namespace or not.
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/kernfs/dir.c | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
fs/kernfs/kernfs-internal.h | 14 ++++++++++++++
include/linux/kernfs.h | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/kobject_ns.h | 3 +++
lib/kobject.c | 2 ++
5 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/kernfs/dir.c b/fs/kernfs/dir.c
index 1f2d894ae454..02796ba6521a 100644
--- a/fs/kernfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/kernfs/dir.c
@@ -575,10 +575,15 @@ static int kernfs_dop_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int flags)
goto out_bad;
/* The kernfs node has been moved to a different namespace */
- if (kn->parent && kernfs_ns_enabled(kn->parent) &&
- kernfs_info(dentry->d_sb)->ns[kn->ns_type] != kn->ns)
- goto out_bad;
+ if (kn->parent && kernfs_ns_enabled(kn->parent)) {
+ if (kernfs_init_ns_propagates(kn->parent) &&
+ kn->ns == kernfs_init_ns(kn->parent->ns_type))
+ goto out_good;
+ if (kernfs_info(dentry->d_sb)->ns[kn->parent->ns_type] != kn->ns)
+ goto out_bad;
+ }
+out_good:
mutex_unlock(&kernfs_mutex);
return 1;
out_bad:
@@ -1090,6 +1095,10 @@ static struct dentry *kernfs_iop_lookup(struct inode *dir,
ns = kernfs_info(dir->i_sb)->ns[parent->ns_type];
kn = kernfs_find_ns(parent, dentry->d_name.name, ns);
+ if (!kn && kernfs_init_ns_propagates(parent)) {
+ ns = kernfs_init_ns(parent->ns_type);
+ kn = kernfs_find_ns(parent, dentry->d_name.name, ns);
+ }
/* no such entry */
if (!kn || !kernfs_active(kn)) {
@@ -1614,6 +1623,8 @@ static int kernfs_dir_fop_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
static struct kernfs_node *kernfs_dir_pos(const void *ns,
struct kernfs_node *parent, loff_t hash, struct kernfs_node *pos)
{
+ const void *init_ns;
+
if (pos) {
int valid = kernfs_active(pos) &&
pos->parent == parent && hash == pos->hash;
@@ -1621,6 +1632,12 @@ static struct kernfs_node *kernfs_dir_pos(const void *ns,
if (!valid)
pos = NULL;
}
+
+ if (kernfs_init_ns_propagates(parent))
+ init_ns = kernfs_init_ns(parent->ns_type);
+ else
+ init_ns = NULL;
+
if (!pos && (hash > 1) && (hash < INT_MAX)) {
struct rb_node *node = parent->dir.children.rb_node;
while (node) {
@@ -1635,7 +1652,7 @@ static struct kernfs_node *kernfs_dir_pos(const void *ns,
}
}
/* Skip over entries which are dying/dead or in the wrong namespace */
- while (pos && (!kernfs_active(pos) || pos->ns != ns)) {
+ while (pos && (!kernfs_active(pos) || (pos->ns != ns && pos->ns != init_ns))) {
struct rb_node *node = rb_next(&pos->rb);
if (!node)
pos = NULL;
@@ -1650,13 +1667,20 @@ static struct kernfs_node *kernfs_dir_next_pos(const void *ns,
{
pos = kernfs_dir_pos(ns, parent, ino, pos);
if (pos) {
+ const void *init_ns;
+ if (kernfs_init_ns_propagates(parent))
+ init_ns = kernfs_init_ns(parent->ns_type);
+ else
+ init_ns = NULL;
+
do {
struct rb_node *node = rb_next(&pos->rb);
if (!node)
pos = NULL;
else
pos = rb_to_kn(node);
- } while (pos && (!kernfs_active(pos) || pos->ns != ns));
+ } while (pos && (!kernfs_active(pos) ||
+ (pos->ns != ns && pos->ns != init_ns)));
}
return pos;
}
diff --git a/fs/kernfs/kernfs-internal.h b/fs/kernfs/kernfs-internal.h
index 6c375eb59460..4ba7b36103de 100644
--- a/fs/kernfs/kernfs-internal.h
+++ b/fs/kernfs/kernfs-internal.h
@@ -78,6 +78,20 @@ static inline struct kernfs_node *kernfs_dentry_node(struct dentry *dentry)
return d_inode(dentry)->i_private;
}
+extern struct net init_net;
+
+static inline const void *kernfs_init_ns(enum kobj_ns_type ns_type)
+{
+ switch (ns_type) {
+ case KOBJ_NS_TYPE_NET:
+ return &init_net;
+ default:
+ pr_debug("Unsupported namespace type %d for kernfs\n", ns_type);
+ }
+
+ return NULL;
+}
+
extern const struct super_operations kernfs_sops;
extern struct kmem_cache *kernfs_node_cache, *kernfs_iattrs_cache;
diff --git a/include/linux/kernfs.h b/include/linux/kernfs.h
index 0e4414bd7007..5e2143e69c1c 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernfs.h
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ enum kernfs_node_flag {
KERNFS_SUICIDED = 0x0800,
KERNFS_EMPTY_DIR = 0x1000,
KERNFS_HAS_RELEASE = 0x2000,
+ KERNFS_NS_PROPAGATE = 0x4000,
};
/* @flags for kernfs_create_root() */
@@ -330,6 +331,27 @@ static inline void kernfs_enable_ns(struct kernfs_node *kn,
kn->ns_type = ns_type;
}
+static inline void kernfs_enable_init_ns_propagates(struct kernfs_node *kn)
+{
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(kernfs_type(kn) != KERNFS_DIR);
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(!RB_EMPTY_ROOT(&kn->dir.children));
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(!(kn->flags & KERNFS_NS));
+ kn->flags |= KERNFS_NS_PROPAGATE;
+}
+
+/**
+ * kernfs_init_ns_propagates - test whether init ns propagates
+ * @kn: the node to test
+ *
+ * Test whether kernfs entries created in the init namespace propagate into
+ * other namespaces.
+ */
+static inline bool kernfs_init_ns_propagates(const struct kernfs_node *kn)
+{
+ return ((kn->flags & (KERNFS_NS | KERNFS_NS_PROPAGATE)) ==
+ (KERNFS_NS | KERNFS_NS_PROPAGATE));
+}
+
/**
* kernfs_ns_enabled - test whether namespace is enabled
* @kn: the node to test
diff --git a/include/linux/kobject_ns.h b/include/linux/kobject_ns.h
index 991a9286bcea..216f9112ee1d 100644
--- a/include/linux/kobject_ns.h
+++ b/include/linux/kobject_ns.h
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ enum kobj_ns_type {
* @grab_current_ns: return a new reference to calling task's namespace
* @initial_ns: return the initial namespace (i.e. init_net_ns)
* @drop_ns: drops a reference to namespace
+ * @initial_ns_propagates: whether devices in the initial namespace propagate
+ * to all other namespaces
*/
struct kobj_ns_type_operations {
enum kobj_ns_type type;
@@ -41,6 +43,7 @@ struct kobj_ns_type_operations {
void *(*grab_current_ns)(void);
const void *(*initial_ns)(void);
void (*drop_ns)(void *);
+ bool (*initial_ns_propagates)(void);
};
int kobj_ns_type_register(const struct kobj_ns_type_operations *ops);
diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index c58c62d49a10..96bb8c732d1c 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -121,6 +121,8 @@ static int create_dir(struct kobject *kobj)
BUG_ON(!kobj_ns_type_registered(ops->type));
sysfs_enable_ns(kobj->sd, ops->type);
+ if (ops->initial_ns_propagates && ops->initial_ns_propagates())
+ kernfs_enable_init_ns_propagates(kobj->sd);
}
return 0;
--
2.26.0
