This series introduces a new namespace for binfmt_misc. This allows to define a new interpreter for each new container. But the main goal is to be able to chroot to a directory using a binfmt_misc interpreter without being root. I have a modified version of unshare at: git@xxxxxxxxxx:vivier/util-linux.git branch unshare-chroot with some new options to unshare binfmt_misc namespace and to chroot to a directory. If you have a directory /chroot/powerpc/jessie containing debian for powerpc binaries and a qemu-ppc interpreter, you can do for instance: $ uname -a Linux fedora28-wor-2 4.19.0-rc5+ #18 SMP Mon Oct 1 00:32:34 CEST 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ ./unshare --map-root-user --fork --pid \ --load-binfmt ":qemu-ppc:M::\x7fELF\x01\x02\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x02\x00\x14:\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\x00\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xfe\xff\xff:/qemu-ppc:OC" \ --root=/chroot/powerpc/jessie /bin/bash -l Linux fedora28-wor-2 4.19.0-rc5+ #18 SMP Mon Oct 1 00:32:34 CEST 2018 ppc GNU/Linux uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),65534(nogroup) total 5940 drwxr-xr-x. 2 nobody nogroup 4096 Aug 12 00:58 bin drwxr-xr-x. 2 nobody nogroup 4096 Jun 17 20:26 boot drwxr-xr-x. 4 nobody nogroup 4096 Aug 12 00:08 dev drwxr-xr-x. 42 nobody nogroup 4096 Sep 28 07:25 etc drwxr-xr-x. 3 nobody nogroup 4096 Sep 28 07:25 home drwxr-xr-x. 9 nobody nogroup 4096 Aug 12 00:58 lib drwxr-xr-x. 2 nobody nogroup 4096 Aug 12 00:08 media drwxr-xr-x. 2 nobody nogroup 4096 Aug 12 00:08 mnt drwxr-xr-x. 3 nobody nogroup 4096 Aug 12 13:09 opt dr-xr-xr-x. 143 nobody nogroup 0 Sep 30 23:02 proc -rwxr-xr-x. 1 nobody nogroup 6009712 Sep 28 07:22 qemu-ppc drwx------. 3 nobody nogroup 4096 Aug 12 12:54 root drwxr-xr-x. 3 nobody nogroup 4096 Aug 12 00:08 run drwxr-xr-x. 2 nobody nogroup 4096 Aug 12 00:58 sbin drwxr-xr-x. 2 nobody nogroup 4096 Aug 12 00:08 srv drwxr-xr-x. 2 nobody nogroup 4096 Apr 6 2015 sys drwxrwxrwt. 2 nobody nogroup 4096 Sep 28 10:31 tmp drwxr-xr-x. 10 nobody nogroup 4096 Aug 12 00:08 usr drwxr-xr-x. 11 nobody nogroup 4096 Aug 12 00:08 var If you want to use the qemu binary provided by your distro, you can use --load-binfmt ":qemu-ppc:M::\x7fELF\x01\x02\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x02\x00\x14:\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\x00\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xfe\xff\xff:/bin/qemu-ppc-static:OCF" With the 'F' flag, qemu-ppc-static will be then loaded from the main root filesystem before switching to the chroot. Laurent Vivier (2): ns: introduce binfmt_misc namespace binfmt_misc: move data to binfmt_namespace fs/binfmt_misc.c | 50 +++++----- fs/proc/namespaces.c | 3 + include/linux/binfmt_namespace.h | 63 ++++++++++++ include/linux/nsproxy.h | 2 + include/linux/proc_ns.h | 2 + include/linux/user_namespace.h | 1 + include/uapi/linux/sched.h | 1 + init/Kconfig | 8 ++ kernel/Makefile | 1 + kernel/binfmt_namespace.c | 164 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ kernel/fork.c | 3 +- kernel/nsproxy.c | 18 +++- 12 files changed, 289 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-) create mode 100644 include/linux/binfmt_namespace.h create mode 100644 kernel/binfmt_namespace.c -- 2.17.1