On 2025-09-10, Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> wrote:
> The mount namespace has supported id retrieval for a while already.
> Add support for the other types as well.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
> ---
> fs/nsfs.c | 74 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
> include/uapi/linux/nsfs.h | 12 ++++++--
> 2 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/nsfs.c b/fs/nsfs.c
> index 3c6fcf652633..527480e67fd1 100644
> --- a/fs/nsfs.c
> +++ b/fs/nsfs.c
> @@ -173,6 +173,13 @@ static bool nsfs_ioctl_valid(unsigned int cmd)
> case NS_GET_NSTYPE:
> case NS_GET_OWNER_UID:
> case NS_GET_MNTNS_ID:
> + case NS_GET_NETNS_ID:
> + case NS_GET_CGROUPNS_ID:
> + case NS_GET_IPCNS_ID:
> + case NS_GET_UTSNS_ID:
> + case NS_GET_PIDNS_ID:
> + case NS_GET_TIMENS_ID:
> + case NS_GET_USERNS_ID:
> case NS_GET_PID_FROM_PIDNS:
> case NS_GET_TGID_FROM_PIDNS:
> case NS_GET_PID_IN_PIDNS:
> @@ -226,18 +233,6 @@ static long ns_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int ioctl,
> argp = (uid_t __user *) arg;
> uid = from_kuid_munged(current_user_ns(), user_ns->owner);
> return put_user(uid, argp);
> - case NS_GET_MNTNS_ID: {
> - __u64 __user *idp;
> - __u64 id;
> -
> - if (ns->ops->type != CLONE_NEWNS)
> - return -EINVAL;
> -
> - mnt_ns = container_of(ns, struct mnt_namespace, ns);
> - idp = (__u64 __user *)arg;
> - id = mnt_ns->ns.ns_id;
> - return put_user(id, idp);
> - }
> case NS_GET_PID_FROM_PIDNS:
> fallthrough;
> case NS_GET_TGID_FROM_PIDNS:
> @@ -283,6 +278,61 @@ static long ns_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int ioctl,
> ret = -ESRCH;
> return ret;
> }
> + case NS_GET_MNTNS_ID:
> + fallthrough;
> + case NS_GET_NETNS_ID:
> + fallthrough;
> + case NS_GET_CGROUPNS_ID:
> + fallthrough;
> + case NS_GET_IPCNS_ID:
> + fallthrough;
> + case NS_GET_UTSNS_ID:
> + fallthrough;
> + case NS_GET_PIDNS_ID:
> + fallthrough;
> + case NS_GET_TIMENS_ID:
> + fallthrough;
> + case NS_GET_USERNS_ID: {
> + __u64 __user *idp;
> + __u64 id;
> + int expected_type;
> +
> + switch (ioctl) {
> + case NS_GET_MNTNS_ID:
> + expected_type = CLONE_NEWNS;
> + break;
> + case NS_GET_NETNS_ID:
> + expected_type = CLONE_NEWNET;
> + break;
> + case NS_GET_CGROUPNS_ID:
> + expected_type = CLONE_NEWCGROUP;
> + break;
> + case NS_GET_IPCNS_ID:
> + expected_type = CLONE_NEWIPC;
> + break;
> + case NS_GET_UTSNS_ID:
> + expected_type = CLONE_NEWUTS;
> + break;
> + case NS_GET_PIDNS_ID:
> + expected_type = CLONE_NEWPID;
> + break;
> + case NS_GET_TIMENS_ID:
> + expected_type = CLONE_NEWTIME;
> + break;
> + case NS_GET_USERNS_ID:
> + expected_type = CLONE_NEWUSER;
> + break;
> + default:
> + return -EINVAL;
> + }
> +
> + if (ns->ops->type != expected_type)
> + return -EINVAL;
While I get that having this be per-ns-type lets programs avoid being
tricked into thinking that one namespace ID is actually another
namespace, it feels a bit ugly to have to add a new ioctl for every new
namespace.
If we added a way to get the CLONE_* flag for a namespace (NS_GET_TYPE)
we could have just NS_GET_ID. Of course, we would have to trust
userspace to do the right thing...
> +
> + idp = (__u64 __user *)arg;
> + id = ns->ns_id;
> + return put_user(id, idp);
> + }
> }
>
> /* extensible ioctls */
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/nsfs.h b/include/uapi/linux/nsfs.h
> index 97d8d80d139f..f7c21840cc09 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/nsfs.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/nsfs.h
> @@ -16,8 +16,6 @@
> #define NS_GET_NSTYPE _IO(NSIO, 0x3)
> /* Get owner UID (in the caller's user namespace) for a user namespace */
> #define NS_GET_OWNER_UID _IO(NSIO, 0x4)
> -/* Get the id for a mount namespace */
> -#define NS_GET_MNTNS_ID _IOR(NSIO, 0x5, __u64)
> /* Translate pid from target pid namespace into the caller's pid namespace. */
> #define NS_GET_PID_FROM_PIDNS _IOR(NSIO, 0x6, int)
> /* Return thread-group leader id of pid in the callers pid namespace. */
> @@ -42,6 +40,16 @@ struct mnt_ns_info {
> /* Get previous namespace. */
> #define NS_MNT_GET_PREV _IOR(NSIO, 12, struct mnt_ns_info)
>
> +/* Retrieve namespace identifiers. */
> +#define NS_GET_MNTNS_ID _IOR(NSIO, 5, __u64)
> +#define NS_GET_NETNS_ID _IOR(NSIO, 13, __u64)
> +#define NS_GET_CGROUPNS_ID _IOR(NSIO, 14, __u64)
> +#define NS_GET_IPCNS_ID _IOR(NSIO, 15, __u64)
> +#define NS_GET_UTSNS_ID _IOR(NSIO, 16, __u64)
> +#define NS_GET_PIDNS_ID _IOR(NSIO, 17, __u64)
> +#define NS_GET_TIMENS_ID _IOR(NSIO, 18, __u64)
> +#define NS_GET_USERNS_ID _IOR(NSIO, 19, __u64)
> +
> enum init_ns_ino {
> IPC_NS_INIT_INO = 0xEFFFFFFFU,
> UTS_NS_INIT_INO = 0xEFFFFFFEU,
>
> --
> 2.47.3
>
--
Aleksa Sarai
Senior Software Engineer (Containers)
SUSE Linux GmbH
https://www.cyphar.com/