CGroup Namespaces (v6)

serge.hallyn
2015-12-07T23:09:10Z

Hi,

following is a revised set of the CGroup Namespace patchset which Aditya
Kali has previously sent. The code can also be found in the cgroupns.v6
branch of

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/sergeh/linux-security.git/

To summarize the semantics:

1. CLONE_NEWCGROUP re-uses 0x02000000, which was previously CLONE_STOPPED

2. unsharing a cgroup namespace makes all your current cgroups your new
cgroup root.

3. /proc/pid/cgroup always shows cgroup paths relative to the reader's
cgroup namespce root. A task outside of your cgroup looks like

8:memory:/../../..

4. when a task mounts a cgroupfs, the cgroup which shows up as root depends
on the mounting task's cgroup namespace.

5. setns to a cgroup namespace switches your cgroup namespace but not
your cgroups.

With this, using github.com/hallyn/lxc #2015-11-09/cgns (and
github.com/hallyn/lxcfs #2015-11-10/cgns) we can start a container in a full
proper cgroup namespace, avoiding either cgmanager or lxcfs cgroup bind mounts.

This is completely backward compatible and will be completely invisible
to any existing cgroup users (except for those running inside a cgroup
namespace and looking at /proc/pid/cgroup of tasks outside their
namespace.)

Changes from V5:
1. To get a root dentry for cgroup namespace mount, walk the path from the
kernfs root dentry.

Changes from V4:
1. Move the FS_USERNS_MOUNT flag to last patch
2. Rebase onto cgroup/for-4.5
3. Don't non-init user namespaces to bind new subsystems when mounting.
4. Address feedback from Tejun (thanks). Specificaly, not addressed:
. kernfs_obtain_root - walking dentry from kernfs root.
(I think that's the only piece)
5. Dropped unused get_task_cgroup fn/patch.
6. Reworked kernfs_path_from_node_locked() to try to simplify the logic.
It now finds a common ancestor, walks from the source to it, then back
up to the target.

Changes from V3:
1. Rebased onto latest cgroup changes. In particular switch to
css_set_lock and ns_common.
2. Support all hierarchies.

Changes from V2:
1. Added documentation in Documentation/cgroups/namespace.txt
2. Fixed a bug that caused crash
3. Incorporated some other suggestions from last patchset:
- removed use of threadgroup_lock() while creating new cgroupns
- use task_lock() instead of rcu_read_lock() while accessing
task->nsproxy
- optimized setns() to own cgroupns
- simplified code around sane-behavior mount option parsing
4. Restored ACKs from Serge Hallyn from v1 on few patches that have
not changed since then.

Changes from V1:
1. No pinning of processes within cgroupns. Tasks can be freely moved
across cgroups even outside of their cgroupns-root. Usual DAC/MAC policies
apply as before.
2. Path in /proc/<pid>/cgroup is now always shown and is relative to
cgroupns-root. So path can contain '/..' strings depending on cgroupns-root
of the reader and cgroup of <pid>.
3. setns() does not require the process to first move under target
cgroupns-root.

Changes form RFC (V0):
1. setns support for cgroupns
2. 'mount -t cgroup cgroup <mntpt>' from inside a cgroupns now
mounts the cgroup hierarcy with cgroupns-root as the filesystem root.
3. writes to cgroup files outside of cgroupns-root are not allowed
4. visibility of /proc/<pid>/cgroup is further restricted by not showing
anything if the <pid> is in a sibling cgroupns and its cgroup falls outside
your cgroupns-root.