Re: [RFC PATCH] locks: Show only file_locks created in the same pidns as current process

J. Bruce Fields
2016-08-02T16:39:15Z

On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 06:20:32PM +0300, Nikolay Borisov wrote:
> On 08/02/2016 06:05 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > (And what process was actually reading /proc/locks, out of curiosity?)
>
> lsof in my case

Oh, thanks, and you said that at the start, and I overlooked
it--apologies.

> >> while the container
> >> itself had only a small number of relevant entries. Fix it by
> >> filtering the locks listed by the pidns of the current process
> >> and the process which created the lock.
> >
> > Thanks, that's interesting. So you show a lock if it was created by
> > someone in the current pid namespace. With a special exception for the
> > init namespace so that
>
> I admit this is a rather naive approach. Something else I was pondering was
> checking whether the user_ns of the lock's creator pidns is the same as the
> reader's user_ns. That should potentially solve your concerns re.
> shared filesystems, no? Or whether the reader's userns is an ancestor
> of the user'ns of the creator's pidns? Maybe Eric can elaborate whether
> this would make sense?

If I could just imagine myself king of the world for a moment--I wish I
could have an interface that took a path or a filehandle and gave back a
list of locks on the associated filesystem. Then if lsof wanted a
global list, it would go through /proc/mounts and request the list of
locks for each filesystem.

For /proc/locks it might be nice if we could restrict to locks on
filesystem that are somehow visible to the current process, but I don't
know if there's a simple way to do that.

--b.

>
> >
> > If a filesystem is shared between containers that means you won't
> > necessarily be able to figure out from within a container which lock is
> > conflicting with your lock. (I don't know if that's really a problem.
> > I'm unfortunately short on evidence aobut what people actually use
> > /proc/locks for....)
> >
> > --b.
> >
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com>
> >> ---
> >> fs/locks.c | 8 ++++++++
> >> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/fs/locks.c b/fs/locks.c
> >> index 6333263b7bc8..53e96df4c583 100644
> >> --- a/fs/locks.c
> >> +++ b/fs/locks.c
> >> @@ -2615,9 +2615,17 @@ static int locks_show(struct seq_file *f, void *v)
> >> {
> >> struct locks_iterator *iter = f->private;
> >> struct file_lock *fl, *bfl;
> >> + struct pid_namespace *pid_ns = task_active_pid_ns(current);
> >> +
> >>
> >> fl = hlist_entry(v, struct file_lock, fl_link);
> >>
> >> + pr_info ("Current pid_ns: %p init_pid_ns: %p, fl->fl_nspid: %p nspidof:%p\n", pid_ns, &init_pid_ns,
> >> + fl->fl_nspid, ns_of_pid(fl->fl_nspid));
> >> + if ((pid_ns != &init_pid_ns) && fl->fl_nspid &&
> >> + (pid_ns != ns_of_pid(fl->fl_nspid)))
> >> + return 0;
> >> +
> >> lock_get_status(f, fl, iter->li_pos, "");
> >>
> >> list_for_each_entry(bfl, &fl->fl_block, fl_block)
> >> --
> >> 2.5.0