Re: [PATCH 2/2] clone.2: added clone3() set_tid information

Christian Brauner
2019-11-28T17:24:10Z

On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 01:46:50PM +0100, Adrian Reber wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Reber <areber@redhat.com>
> ---
> man2/clone.2 | 90 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 90 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/man2/clone.2 b/man2/clone.2
> index 076b9258e..59c13ec35 100644
> --- a/man2/clone.2
> +++ b/man2/clone.2
> @@ -195,6 +195,8 @@ struct clone_args {
> u64 stack; /* Pointer to lowest byte of stack */
> u64 stack_size; /* Size of stack */
> u64 tls; /* Location of new TLS */
> + u64 set_tid; /* Pointer to a \fIpid_t\fP array */
> + u64 set_tid_size; /* Number of elements in \fIset_tid\fP */
> };
> .EE
> .in
> @@ -262,6 +264,8 @@ flags & 0xff exit_signal
> stack stack
> \fP---\fP stack_size
> tls tls See CLONE_SETTLS
> +\fP---\fP set_tid See below for details
> +\fP---\fP set_tid_size
> .TE
> .RE
> .\"
> @@ -285,6 +289,74 @@ options when waiting for the child with
> If no signal (i.e., zero) is specified, then the parent process is not signaled
> when the child terminates.
> .\"
> +.SS The set_tid array
> +.PP
> +The
> +.I set_tid
> +array is used to select a certain PID for the process to be created by
> +.BR clone3 ().
> +If the PID of the newly created process should only be set for the current
> +PID namespace or in the newly created PID namespace (if
> +.I flags
> +contains
> +.BR CLONE_NEWPID )
> +then the first element in the
> +.I set_tid
> +array has to be the desired PID and
> +.I set_tid_size
> +needs to be 1.
> +.PP
> +If the PID of the newly created process should have a certain value in
> +multiple PID namespaces the
> +.I set_tid
> +array can have multiple entries. The first entry defines the PID in the most
> +nested PID namespace and all following entries contain the PID of the
> +corresponding parent PID namespace. The number of PID namespaces in which a PID
> +should be set is defined by
> +.I set_tid_size
> +which cannot be larger than the number of currently nested PID namespaces.

"It's upper cap is the kernel-enforced general nesting limit."
or sm like that

> +.PP
> +To create a process with the following PIDs:

in a pid namespace hierarchy

> +.RS
> +.TS
> +lb lb
> +l l .
> +PID NS level Requested PID
> +0 (host) 31496
> +1 42
> +2 7
> +.TE
> +.RE
> +.PP

Set the array to:

> +.PP
> +.EX
> + set_tid[0] = 7;
> + set_tid[1] = 42;
> + set_tid[2] = 31496;
> + set_tid_size = 3;
> +.EE
> +.PP
> +If only the PID of the two innermost PID namespaces

need to be specified set the array to:

> +.PP
> +.EX
> + set_tid[0] = 7;
> + set_tid[1] = 42;
> + set_tid_size = 2;
> +.EE
> +.PP
> +The PID in the PID namespaces outside the two innermost PID namespaces
> +is then selected the same way as any other PID is selected.

s/is then/will be/

> +.PP
> +Only a privileged process
> +.RB ( CAP_SYS_ADMIN )

Maybe more specific:

The set_tid feature requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN in all owning user namespaces
of the target pid namespaces.

> +can set
> +.I set_tid
> +to select a PID for the process to be created.
> +.\"
> .SS The flags mask
> .PP
> Both
> @@ -1379,6 +1451,16 @@ in the
> .I flags
> mask.
> .TP
> +.BR EINVAL " (" clone3 "() only)"
> +.I set_tid_size
> +larger than current number of nested PID namespaces or maximum number of
> +nested PID namespaces was specified.
> +.TP
> +.BR EINVAL " (" clone3 "() only)"
> +If one of the PIDs specified in
> +.I set_tid
> +was an invalid PID.
> +.TP
> .B ENOMEM
> Cannot allocate sufficient memory to allocate a task structure for the
> child, or to copy those parts of the caller's context that need to be
> @@ -1450,6 +1532,14 @@ mask and the caller is in a chroot environment
> (i.e., the caller's root directory does not match the root directory
> of the mount namespace in which it resides).
> .TP
> +.BR EPERM " (" clone3 "() only)"
> +If
> +.I set_tid
> +with
> +.I set_tid_size
> +larger than 0 was specified by an unprivileged process (process without
> +\fBCAP_SYS_ADMIN\fP).

without CAP_SYS_ADMIN in _one_ of the owning user namespaces of the
target pid namespace

maybe?

Where's EEXIST?

Christian