We have collected a good set of calls that cannot be done inside
user namespaces, but we need to [1]. Some of them has already
being addressed, like prctl mm bits restore, but some are not.
I'm pretty sceptical about the ability to relax the security
checks on quite a lot of them (e.g. open-by-handle is indeed a
very dangerous operation if allowed to unpriviledged user), so
we need some way to call those things even in user namespaces.
The good news about it its that all the calls I've found operate
on file descriptors this way or another. So if we had a process,
that lived outside of user namespace, we could ask one to do the
high priority operation we need and exchange the affected file
descriptor via unix socket.
So the usernsd is the one doing exactly this. It starts before we
create the user namespace and accepts requests via unix socket.
Clients (the processes we restore) send him the functions they
want to call, the descriptor they want to operate on and the
arguments blob. Optionally, they can request some file descriptor
back after the call.
In non usernamespace case the daemon is not started and the calls
are done right in the requestor's process environment.
In the next patch there's an example of how to use this daemon
to do the priviledged SO_SNDBUFFORCE/_RCVBUFFORCE sockopt on
a socket.
[1] http://criu.org/UserNamespace
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
On restore find out in which sets tasks live in and move
them there.
Optimization note -- move tasks into cgroups _before_ fork
kids to make them inherit cgroups if required. This saves
a lot of time.
Accessibility note -- when moving tasks into cgroups don't
search for existing host mounts (they may be not available)
and don't mount temporary ones (may be impossible due to
user namespaces). Instead introduce service fd with a yard
of mounts.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
We have a race. Consider we have 3 tasks, A, B and C. A and B
share fdtable, C -- does not. Then we might be in a situation
when A is restoring memory reading mem images, and B -- forking
the C child. In that case descriptors held by A (for mem restore)
will be inherited by C and will not get closed.
This reverts commit d36e07aabe.
It's already used for dumping files and it will be used for restoring,
so it should be service fd to avoid intersection with restored
descriptors.
Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
For all other tasks only unsed service descriptors will be closed.
This change allows to have file descriptors, which may be used for
restoring namespaces. All non-server descriptors must be closed before
restoring files.
Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
For big #ifdef/#endif chunks we do a comment /* */
at #endif. Add missing ones.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
crtools.h is too heavy to be included in many sources
Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
