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| [PATCH] pidns: Place under CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL [message #22374] |
Fri, 26 October 2007 17:40  |
ebiederm
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I finally found a chance to review the pid namespace implementation in
detail and currently it is much to easy to find issues where the
kernel does the wrong thing outside of the initial pid namespace.
At the same time the pid namespace code we have does appear
to be a good base to build on.
Therefore until the dust settles and we are certain we have the
ABI and the implementation as correct as humanly possible let's
hide the availability of process ID namespaces behind
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL.
Allowing users to avoid bugs, and removing a guarantee of bug
compatibility. Allowing any issues that may be found to
be fixed properly.
If CONFIG_PID_NS=N this patch will cause copy_pid_ns to
unconditionally return -EINVAL removing the availability
of multiple pid namespaces.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
---
init/Kconfig | 12 ++++++++++++
kernel/pid.c | 4 ++++
2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 8b88d0b..72e37c0 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -215,6 +215,18 @@ config USER_NS
vservers, to use user namespaces to provide different
user info for different servers. If unsure, say N.
+config PID_NS
+ bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ default n
+ depends on EXPERIMENTAL
+ help
+ Suport process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
+ process with the same pid as long as they are in different
+ pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
+
+ Unless you want to work with an experimental feature
+ say N here.
+
config AUDIT
bool "Auditing support"
depends on NET
diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c
index d1db36b..8a5637b 100644
--- a/kernel/pid.c
+++ b/kernel/pid.c
@@ -599,6 +599,10 @@ struct pid_namespace *copy_pid_ns(unsigned long flags, struct pid_namespace *old
if (flags & CLONE_THREAD)
goto out_put;
+#ifndef CONFIG_PID_NS
+ goto out_put;
+#endif
+
new_ns = create_pid_namespace(old_ns->level + 1);
if (!IS_ERR(new_ns))
new_ns->parent = get_pid_ns(old_ns);
--
1.5.3.rc6.17.g1911
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| [PATCH] pidns: Place under CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL (take 2) [message #22385 is a reply to message #22377] |
Fri, 26 October 2007 19:35  |
ebiederm
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This is my trivial patch to swat innumerable little bugs
with a single blow.
After some intensive review (my apologies for not having
gotten to this sooner) what we have looks like a good
base to build on with the current pid namespace code but
it is not complete, and it is still much to simple to find
issues where the kernel does the wrong thing outside of
the initial pid namespace.
Until the dust settles and we are certain we have the ABI and
the implementation is as correct as humanly possible let's keep
process ID namespaces behind CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL.
Allowing us the option of fixing any ABI or other bugs
we find as long as they are minor.
Allowing users of the kernel to avoid those bugs simply
by ensuring their kernel does not have support for multiple
pid namespaces.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
---
include/linux/pid_namespace.h | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
init/Kconfig | 12 ++++++++++++
kernel/pid.c | 2 ++
3 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/pid_namespace.h b/include/linux/pid_namespace.h
index 0135c76..0227e68 100644
--- a/include/linux/pid_namespace.h
+++ b/include/linux/pid_namespace.h
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ struct pid_namespace {
extern struct pid_namespace init_pid_ns;
+#ifdef CONFIG_PID_NS
static inline struct pid_namespace *get_pid_ns(struct pid_namespace *ns)
{
if (ns != &init_pid_ns)
@@ -45,6 +46,27 @@ static inline void put_pid_ns(struct pid_namespace *ns)
kref_put(&ns->kref, free_pid_ns);
}
+#else /* !CONFIG_PID_NS */
+#include <linux/err.h>
+
+static inline struct pid_namespace *get_pid_ns(struct pid_namespace *ns)
+{
+ return ns;
+}
+
+static inline struct pid_namespace *copy_pid_ns(unsigned long flags, struct pid_namespace *ns)
+{
+ if (flags & CLONE_NEWPID)
+ ns = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+ return ns;
+}
+
+static inline void put_pid_ns(struct pid_namespace *ns)
+{
+}
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_PID_NS */
+
static inline struct pid_namespace *task_active_pid_ns(struct task_struct *tsk)
{
return tsk->nsproxy->pid_ns;
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 8b88d0b..72e37c0 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -215,6 +215,18 @@ config USER_NS
vservers, to use user namespaces to provide different
user info for different servers. If unsure, say N.
+config PID_NS
+ bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ default n
+ depends on EXPERIMENTAL
+ help
+ Suport process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
+ process with the same pid as long as they are in different
+ pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
+
+ Unless you want to work with an experimental feature
+ say N here.
+
config AUDIT
bool "Auditing support"
depends on NET
diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c
index d1db36b..f815455 100644
--- a/kernel/pid.c
+++ b/kernel/pid.c
@@ -537,6 +537,7 @@ err_alloc:
return NULL;
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_PID_NS
static struct pid_namespace *create_pid_namespace(int level)
{
struct pid_namespace *ns;
@@ -621,6 +622,7 @@ void free_pid_ns(struct kref *kref)
if (parent != NULL)
put_pid_ns(parent);
}
+#endif /* CONFIG_PID_NS */
void zap_pid_ns_processes(struct pid_namespace *pid_ns)
{
--
1.5.3.rc6.17.g1911
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| Re: [PATCH] pidns: Place under CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL (take 2) [message #22403 is a reply to message #22401] |
Sat, 27 October 2007 03:46 |
ebiederm
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Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> writes:
>> On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 04:04:08 +0200 Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
>> > be happy to hear if someone has a better idea.
>>
>> There is a difference between "complete the feature" and "early adopters
>> to start playing with the feature" on the one side, and making something
>> available in a released kernel on the other side.
>>
>> For development and playing with it it can depend on BROKEN (perhaps
>> with the dependency removed through the first -rc kernels), but as soon
>> as it's available in a -final kernel the ABI is fixed.
>>
>
> Yes, if we're not 100% certain that the interfaces are correnct and unchanging
> and that the implementation is solid, we should disable the feature at Kconfig
> time.
Reasonable. So far things look good for a single pid namespace. Multiple
pid namespaces look iffy.
> The best option would be to fix things asap. But assuming that option isn't
> reasonable and/or safe, we can slip a `depends on BROKEN' into -rc6 then
> resume development for 2.6.25.
I think we can make a lot of progress but there is enough development
yet to do to reach the target of correct and unchanging interfaces,
with a solid interface. That unless we achieve a breakthrough I
don't see us achieving that target for 2.6.24.
The outstanding issues I can think of off the top of my head:
- signal handling for init on secondary pid namespaces.
- Properly setting si_pid on signals that cross namespaces.
- The kthread API conversion so we don't get kernel threads
trapped in pid namespaces and make them unfreeable.
- At fork time I think we are doing a little bit too much work
in setting the session and the pgrp, and removing the controlling
tty.
- AF_unix domain credential passing.
- misc pid vs vpid sorting out (autofs autofs4, coda, arch specific
syscalls, others?)
- Removal of task->pid, task->tgid, task->signal->__pgrp,
tsk->signal->__session or some other way to ensure that we have
touched and converted all of the kernel pid handling.
- flock pid handling.
It hurts me to even ponder what thinking makes it that
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL isn't enough to keep a stable distro
from shipping the code in their stable kernel, and locking us into
trouble.
With that said. I think I should just respin the patchset now and add
the "depends on BROKEN".
The user namespace appears to need that treatment as well.
The network namespace has so little there and it already depends
on !SYSFS so I don't think we are going to run into any trouble
with it. Happily I managed to parse that problem differently,
so I could slice of the parts of the networking stack that
had not been converted.
Eric
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| Re: [PATCH] pidns: Place under CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL (take 2) [message #22404 is a reply to message #22403] |
Sat, 27 October 2007 04:40 |
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On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:46:59 -0600 ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
> Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> writes:
>
> >> On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 04:04:08 +0200 Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
> >> > be happy to hear if someone has a better idea.
> >>
> >> There is a difference between "complete the feature" and "early adopters
> >> to start playing with the feature" on the one side, and making something
> >> available in a released kernel on the other side.
> >>
> >> For development and playing with it it can depend on BROKEN (perhaps
> >> with the dependency removed through the first -rc kernels), but as soon
> >> as it's available in a -final kernel the ABI is fixed.
> >>
> >
> > Yes, if we're not 100% certain that the interfaces are correnct and unchanging
> > and that the implementation is solid, we should disable the feature at Kconfig
> > time.
>
> Reasonable. So far things look good for a single pid namespace. Multiple
> pid namespaces look iffy.
>
> > The best option would be to fix things asap. But assuming that option isn't
> > reasonable and/or safe, we can slip a `depends on BROKEN' into -rc6 then
> > resume development for 2.6.25.
>
> I think we can make a lot of progress but there is enough development
> yet to do to reach the target of correct and unchanging interfaces,
> with a solid interface. That unless we achieve a breakthrough I
> don't see us achieving that target for 2.6.24.
>
> The outstanding issues I can think of off the top of my head:
> - signal handling for init on secondary pid namespaces.
> - Properly setting si_pid on signals that cross namespaces.
> - The kthread API conversion so we don't get kernel threads
> trapped in pid namespaces and make them unfreeable.
> - At fork time I think we are doing a little bit too much work
> in setting the session and the pgrp, and removing the controlling
> tty.
> - AF_unix domain credential passing.
> - misc pid vs vpid sorting out (autofs autofs4, coda, arch specific
> syscalls, others?)
> - Removal of task->pid, task->tgid, task->signal->__pgrp,
> tsk->signal->__session or some other way to ensure that we have
> touched and converted all of the kernel pid handling.
> - flock pid handling.
Given that a lot of this development will hopefully happen over the next
two months, ...
> It hurts me to even ponder what thinking makes it that
> CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL isn't enough to keep a stable distro
> from shipping the code in their stable kernel, and locking us into
> trouble.
>
> With that said. I think I should just respin the patchset now and add
> the "depends on BROKEN".
it doesn't make sense to make it all dependent upon BROKEN now. Better
would be to make it dependant upon CONFIG_SOMETHING_ELSE now, which depends
upon EXPERIMENTAL and which will, around -rc6, be changed to depend upon
BROKEN.
If that makes sense.
It's all a bit unusual and complex, but this is an exceptional set of
features - let's hang in there.
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| Re: [PATCH] pidns: Place under CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL (take 2) [message #22446 is a reply to message #22385] |
Mon, 29 October 2007 07:49 |
Kirill Korotaev
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Can you please send namespace related patches to containers@ ML first
before sending them to Linus/Andrew?
Thanks,
Kirill
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> This is my trivial patch to swat innumerable little bugs
> with a single blow.
>
> After some intensive review (my apologies for not having
> gotten to this sooner) what we have looks like a good
> base to build on with the current pid namespace code but
> it is not complete, and it is still much to simple to find
> issues where the kernel does the wrong thing outside of
> the initial pid namespace.
>
> Until the dust settles and we are certain we have the ABI and
> the implementation is as correct as humanly possible let's keep
> process ID namespaces behind CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL.
>
> Allowing us the option of fixing any ABI or other bugs
> we find as long as they are minor.
>
> Allowing users of the kernel to avoid those bugs simply
> by ensuring their kernel does not have support for multiple
> pid namespaces.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> ---
> include/linux/pid_namespace.h | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> init/Kconfig | 12 ++++++++++++
> kernel/pid.c | 2 ++
> 3 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/pid_namespace.h b/include/linux/pid_namespace.h
> index 0135c76..0227e68 100644
> --- a/include/linux/pid_namespace.h
> +++ b/include/linux/pid_namespace.h
> @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ struct pid_namespace {
>
> extern struct pid_namespace init_pid_ns;
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PID_NS
> static inline struct pid_namespace *get_pid_ns(struct pid_namespace *ns)
> {
> if (ns != &init_pid_ns)
> @@ -45,6 +46,27 @@ static inline void put_pid_ns(struct pid_namespace *ns)
> kref_put(&ns->kref, free_pid_ns);
> }
>
> +#else /* !CONFIG_PID_NS */
> +#include <linux/err.h>
> +
> +static inline struct pid_namespace *get_pid_ns(struct pid_namespace *ns)
> +{
> + return ns;
> +}
> +
> +static inline struct pid_namespace *copy_pid_ns(unsigned long flags, struct pid_namespace *ns)
> +{
> + if (flags & CLONE_NEWPID)
> + ns = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> + return ns;
> +}
> +
> +static inline void put_pid_ns(struct pid_namespace *ns)
> +{
> +}
> +
> +#endif /* CONFIG_PID_NS */
> +
> static inline struct pid_namespace *task_active_pid_ns(struct task_struct *tsk)
> {
> return tsk->nsproxy->pid_ns;
> diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
> index 8b88d0b..72e37c0 100644
> --- a/init/Kconfig
> +++ b/init/Kconfig
> @@ -215,6 +215,18 @@ config USER_NS
> vservers, to use user namespaces to provide different
> user info for different servers. If unsure, say N.
>
> +config PID_NS
> + bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> + default n
> + depends on EXPERIMENTAL
> + help
> + Suport process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
> + process with the same pid as long as they are in different
> + pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
> +
> + Unless you want to work with an experimental feature
> + say N here.
> +
> config AUDIT
> bool "Auditing support"
> depends on NET
> diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c
> index d1db36b..f815455 100644
> --- a/kernel/pid.c
> +++ b/kernel/pid.c
> @@ -537,6 +537,7 @@ err_alloc:
> return NULL;
> }
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PID_NS
> static struct pid_namespace *create_pid_namespace(int level)
> {
> struct pid_namespace *ns;
> @@ -621,6 +622,7 @@ void free_pid_ns(struct kref *kref)
> if (parent != NULL)
> put_pid_ns(parent);
> }
> +#endif /* CONFIG_PID_NS */
>
> void zap_pid_ns_processes(struct pid_namespace *pid_ns)
> {
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| Re: [PATCH] pidns: Place under CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL (take 2) [message #22479 is a reply to message #22403] |
Mon, 29 October 2007 18:05 |
Cedric Le Goater
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Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> writes:
>
>>> On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 04:04:08 +0200 Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
>>>> be happy to hear if someone has a better idea.
>>> There is a difference between "complete the feature" and "early adopters
>>> to start playing with the feature" on the one side, and making something
>>> available in a released kernel on the other side.
>>>
>>> For development and playing with it it can depend on BROKEN (perhaps
>>> with the dependency removed through the first -rc kernels), but as soon
>>> as it's available in a -final kernel the ABI is fixed.
>>>
>> Yes, if we're not 100% certain that the interfaces are correnct and unchanging
>> and that the implementation is solid, we should disable the feature at Kconfig
>> time.
>
> Reasonable. So far things look good for a single pid namespace. Multiple
> pid namespaces look iffy.
>
>> The best option would be to fix things asap. But assuming that option isn't
>> reasonable and/or safe, we can slip a `depends on BROKEN' into -rc6 then
>> resume development for 2.6.25.
>
> I think we can make a lot of progress but there is enough development
> yet to do to reach the target of correct and unchanging interfaces,
> with a solid interface. That unless we achieve a breakthrough I
> don't see us achieving that target for 2.6.24.
>
> The outstanding issues I can think of off the top of my head:
> - signal handling for init on secondary pid namespaces.
> - Properly setting si_pid on signals that cross namespaces.
these are being addressed by suka patches, and also you with the latest patch
you sent. right ?
> - The kthread API conversion so we don't get kernel threads
> trapped in pid namespaces and make them unfreeable.
a lot of work has been done on that part. take a look at it. the clean up
is really impressive !
NFS still uses the kernel_thread() API. the first thing to do on the kthread
topic is to improve the kthread API.
I think we can discard the remaining drivers for the moment.
> - At fork time I think we are doing a little bit too much work
> in setting the session and the pgrp, and removing the controlling
> tty.
yes probably. this needs to be sorted out. it makes a container init
process different from the system init process.
> - AF_unix domain credential passing.
see commit b488893a390edfe027bae7a46e9af8083e740668 which is covering
UNIX socket credentials and more. Are you thinking we should do more for
credentials and use a struct pid* ? This looks scary.
> - misc pid vs vpid sorting out (autofs autofs4, coda, arch specific
> syscalls, others?)
autofs* is fixed. netlink ?
> - Removal of task->pid, task->tgid, task->signal->__pgrp,
> tsk->signal->__session or some other way to ensure that we have
> touched and converted all of the kernel pid handling.
well, __pgrp and __session are pretty well covered with the __deprecated
attribute. I don't see what else we could to do on these. we can't remove
the task_{session,pgrp}_* routines.
we could apply the same __deprecated technique to task->pid, task->tgid.
This is going to be a challenge :)
> - flock pid handling.
Pavel again.
> It hurts me to even ponder what thinking makes it that
> CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL isn't enough to keep a stable distro
> from shipping the code in their stable kernel, and locking us into
> trouble.
>
> With that said. I think I should just respin the patchset now and add
> the "depends on BROKEN".
>
> The user namespace appears to need that treatment as well.
The kernel will be protected by a CONFIG_NAMESPACES option as soon as it
gets in. Unfortunately, it didn't make 2.6.24 so this will be 2.6.25
material.
Cheers,
C.
> The network namespace has so little there and it already depends
> on !SYSFS so I don't think we are going to run into any trouble
> with it. Happily I managed to parse that problem differently,
> so I could slice of the parts of the networking stack that
> had not been converted.
>
> Eric
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| Re: [PATCH] pidns: Place under CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL (take 2) [message #22482 is a reply to message #22479] |
Mon, 29 October 2007 19:11 |
ebiederm
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Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> writes:
>> The outstanding issues I can think of off the top of my head:
>> - signal handling for init on secondary pid namespaces.
>> - Properly setting si_pid on signals that cross namespaces.
>
> these are being addressed by suka patches, and also you with the latest patch
> you sent. right ?
I am just starting to review suka's patches it is a subtle area and tricky.
My signal related patches were aimed at just going through the global list
of processes.
>> - The kthread API conversion so we don't get kernel threads
>> trapped in pid namespaces and make them unfreeable.
>
> a lot of work has been done on that part. take a look at it. the clean up
> is really impressive !
Agreed.
> NFS still uses the kernel_thread() API. the first thing to do on the kthread
> topic is to improve the kthread API.
yes, getting the kthread API up to snuff works.
> I think we can discard the remaining drivers for the moment.
>
>> - At fork time I think we are doing a little bit too much work
>> in setting the session and the pgrp, and removing the controlling
>> tty.
>
> yes probably. this needs to be sorted out. it makes a container init
> process different from the system init process.
Yes. I sent a patch for review that fixes just this one aspect and
I will see what happens.
>> - AF_unix domain credential passing.
>
> see commit b488893a390edfe027bae7a46e9af8083e740668 which is covering
> UNIX socket credentials and more. Are you thinking we should do more for
> credentials and use a struct pid* ? This looks scary.
Yes. We need to get the pid in the pid namespace that remove the
credentials. Not the pid in the pid namespace that places the credentials
on the socket.
As for scary and delicate I agree. We really need to pass the struct
pid, not a pid_t in the credentials.
>> - misc pid vs vpid sorting out (autofs autofs4, coda, arch specific
>> syscalls, others?)
>
> autofs* is fixed. netlink ?
No. autofs compiles builds and works in a single pid namespace.
The issues with multiple pid namespaces have not been fully
addresses, and autofs4 is in worse shape. Unless there
are pending petches I'm not aware of.
Partly it may be Pavel's shift from my intent of having
pid_nr be the pid_t in current->nsproxy->pid_namespace.
To calling that function pid_vnr, and having pid_nr be
the pid_t value in init_pid_ns.
>> - Removal of task->pid, task->tgid, task->signal->__pgrp,
>> tsk->signal->__session or some other way to ensure that we have
>> touched and converted all of the kernel pid handling.
>
> well, __pgrp and __session are pretty well covered with the __deprecated
> attribute. I don't see what else we could to do on these. we can't remove
> the task_{session,pgrp}_* routines.
>
> we could apply the same __deprecated technique to task->pid, task->tgid.
> This is going to be a challenge :)
Well the point is not to use the pid_t for anything except passing to user
space. It isn't that I object to people using __session directly it
is that I object to people using task_session_nr because it hides
possible bugs. When we work with pids using struct pid pointers it is
clear we can't get it wrong. When we use pid_t values it is quite
easy to get things wrong. As the current autofs code demonstrates.
> diff --git a/fs/autofs/inode.c b/fs/autofs/inode.c
> index 45f5992..af82143 100644
> --- a/fs/autofs/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/autofs/inode.c
> @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ static int parse_options(char *options, int *pipefd, uid_t *uid, gid_t *gid,
>
> *uid = current->uid;
> *gid = current->gid;
> - *pgrp = task_pgrp_nr(current);
> + *pgrp = task_pgrp_vnr(current);
>
> *minproto = *maxproto = AUTOFS_PROTO_VERSION;
>
>> - flock pid handling.
>
> Pavel again.
Yes. I know he was looking at it.
> The kernel will be protected by a CONFIG_NAMESPACES option as soon as it
> gets in. Unfortunately, it didn't make 2.6.24 so this will be 2.6.25
> material.
Which sounds completely bass akwards. We want the option so we can
disable things now, when everything is immature, and not really
doing the right thing. I guess I really should look in Andrews queue
and see what didn't make it, and see if there are pieces that fixes
bugs that really should have.
I think the CONFIG_NAMESPACES work was focused primarily on size
reduction under CONFIG_EMBEDDED. Which means from a correctness
perspective I don't care.
Eric
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| Re: [PATCH] pidns: Place under CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL [message #22579 is a reply to message #22374] |
Wed, 31 October 2007 08:54 |
Pavel Emelianov
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Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> I finally found a chance to review the pid namespace implementation in
> detail and currently it is much to easy to find issues where the
> kernel does the wrong thing outside of the initial pid namespace.
> At the same time the pid namespace code we have does appear
> to be a good base to build on.
>
> Therefore until the dust settles and we are certain we have the
> ABI and the implementation as correct as humanly possible let's
> hide the availability of process ID namespaces behind
> CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL.
Sorry for the late answer - I was out for a conference and the
organization committee didn't provide an internet access.
I currently have a set of patches that move all the namespaces
cloning code under the config option. This is done to help
embedded people have a small kernel.
I was planning to wait with this set untill 2.6.24-rc-mm1 kernel,
but since (as I see) this is required rather badly I will send this
set in a couple of days.
Thanks,
Pavel
> Allowing users to avoid bugs, and removing a guarantee of bug
> compatibility. Allowing any issues that may be found to
> be fixed properly.
>
> If CONFIG_PID_NS=N this patch will cause copy_pid_ns to
> unconditionally return -EINVAL removing the availability
> of multiple pid namespaces.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> ---
> init/Kconfig | 12 ++++++++++++
> kernel/pid.c | 4 ++++
> 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
> index 8b88d0b..72e37c0 100644
> --- a/init/Kconfig
> +++ b/init/Kconfig
> @@ -215,6 +215,18 @@ config USER_NS
> vservers, to use user namespaces to provide different
> user info for different servers. If unsure, say N.
>
> +config PID_NS
> + bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> + default n
> + depends on EXPERIMENTAL
> + help
> + Suport process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
> + process with the same pid as long as they are in different
> + pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
> +
> + Unless you want to work with an experimental feature
> + say N here.
> +
> config AUDIT
> bool "Auditing support"
> depends on NET
> diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c
> index d1db36b..8a5637b 100644
> --- a/kernel/pid.c
> +++ b/kernel/pid.c
> @@ -599,6 +599,10 @@ struct pid_namespace *copy_pid_ns(unsigned long flags, struct pid_namespace *old
> if (flags & CLONE_THREAD)
> goto out_put;
>
> +#ifndef CONFIG_PID_NS
> + goto out_put;
> +#endif
> +
> new_ns = create_pid_namespace(old_ns->level + 1);
> if (!IS_ERR(new_ns))
> new_ns->parent = get_pid_ns(old_ns);
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| Re: [PATCH] pidns: Place under CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL (take 2) [message #22781 is a reply to message #22385] |
Fri, 26 October 2007 20:58 |
Kir Kolyshkin
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Eric,
Could you please hold off the horses a bit and wait till Pavel Emelyanov returns? It means next Monday; he's currently at a conference whose organisers don't provide internet access.
I feel it makes great sense to review/discuss patches first on containers@ first before submitting directly to lkml/Linus.
Speaking of this particular patch -- I don't understand how you fix "innumerable little bugs" by providing stubs instead of real functions.
Sent from my BlackBerry; please reply to kir@openvz.org
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From: devel-bounces@openvz.org <devel-bounces@openvz.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
CC: Linux Containers <containers@lists.osdl.org>; Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Fri Oct 26 15:35:43 2007
Subject: [Devel] [PATCH] pidns: Place under CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL (take 2)
This is my trivial patch to swat innumerable little bugs
with a single blow.
After some intensive review (my apologies for not having
gotten to this sooner) what we have looks like a good
base to build on with the current pid namespace code but
it is not complete, and it is still much to simple to find
issues where the kernel does the wrong thing outside of
the initial pid namespace.
Until the dust settles and we are certain we have the ABI and
the implementation is as correct as humanly possible let's keep
process ID namespaces behind CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL.
Allowing us the option of fixing any ABI or other bugs
we find as long as they are minor.
Allowing users of the kernel to avoid those bugs simply
by ensuring their kernel does not have support for multiple
pid namespaces.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
---
include/linux/pid_namespace.h | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
init/Kconfig | 12 ++++++++++++
kernel/pid.c | 2 ++
3 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/pid_namespace.h b/include/linux/pid_namespace.h
index 0135c76..0227e68 100644
--- a/include/linux/pid_namespace.h
+++ b/include/linux/pid_namespace.h
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ struct pid_namespace {
extern struct pid_namespace init_pid_ns;
+#ifdef CONFIG_PID_NS
static inline struct pid_namespace *get_pid_ns(struct pid_namespace *ns)
{
if (ns != &init_pid_ns)
@@ -45,6 +46,27 @@ static inline void put_pid_ns(struct pid_namespace *ns)
kref_put(&ns->kref, free_pid_ns);
}
+#else /* !CONFIG_PID_NS */
+#include <linux/err.h>
+
+static inline struct pid_namespace *get_pid_ns(struct pid_namespace *ns)
+{
+ return ns;
+}
+
+static inline struct pid_namespace *copy_pid_ns(unsigned long flags, struct pid_namespace *ns)
+{
+ if (flags & CLONE_NEWPID)
+ ns = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+ return ns;
+}
+
+static inline void put_pid_ns(struct pid_namespace *ns)
+{
+}
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_PID_NS */
+
static inline struct pid_namespace *task_active_pid_ns(struct task_struct *tsk)
{
return tsk->nsproxy->pid_ns;
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 8b88d0b..72e37c0 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -215,6 +215,18 @@ config USER_NS
vservers, to use user namespaces to provide different
user info for different servers. If unsure, say N.
+config PID_NS
+ bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ default n
+ depends on EXPERIMENTAL
+ help
+ Suport process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
+ process with the same pid as long as they are in different
+ pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
+
+ Unless you want to work with an experimental feature
+ say N here.
+
config AUDIT
bool "Auditing support"
depends on NET
diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c
index d1db36b..f815455 100644
--- a/kernel/pid.c
+++ b/kernel/pid.c
@@ -537,6 +537,7 @@ err_alloc:
return NULL;
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_PID_NS
static struct pid_namespace *create_pid_namespace(int level)
{
struct pid_namespace *ns;
@@ -621,6 +622,7 @@ void free_pid_ns(struct kref *kref)
if (parent != NULL)
put_pid_ns(parent);
}
+#endif /* CONFIG_PID_NS */
void zap_pid_ns_processes(struct pid_namespace *pid_ns)
{
--
1.5.3.rc6.17.g1911
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| Re: [PATCH] pidns: Place under CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL (take 2) [message #22786 is a reply to message #22391] |
Sat, 27 October 2007 00:24 |
Adrian Bunk
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On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 03:59:29PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> "Kir Kolyshkin" <kir@swsoft.com> writes:
>
> > Eric,
> >
> > Could you please hold off the horses a bit and wait till Pavel Emelyanov
> > returns? It means next Monday; he's currently at a conference whose organisers
> > don't provide internet access.
>
> When we decided to go top down (i.e. user interface first) instead of
> bottom up with the pid namespace implementation it was my
> understanding that we had agreed we would make the pid namespaces
> depend on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL so that we wouldn't be stuck forever
> supporting early ABI mistakes.
>...
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL is a weak hint that some code might not (yet) be in
a perfect state, but it does not have any semantics regarding
userspace ABIs.
A dependency on BROKEN seems more appropriate.
> Eric
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| Re: [PATCH] pidns: Place under CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL (take 2) [message #22787 is a reply to message #22403] |
Sat, 27 October 2007 04:03 |
Adrian Bunk
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On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 09:46:59PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>...
> It hurts me to even ponder what thinking makes it that
> CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL isn't enough to keep a stable distro
> from shipping the code in their stable kernel, and locking us into
> trouble.
>...
There isn't any hard semantics behind what is marked EXPERIMENTAL and
what not. In it's current state, we could even consider removing the
EXPERIMENTAL option and all dependencies on EXPERIMENTAL.
Currently CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=n would cost a distribution a three digit
number of device drivers plus several features like e.g. NFSv4.
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| Re: [PATCH] pidns: Place under CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL (take 2) [message #22788 is a reply to message #22399] |
Sat, 27 October 2007 02:04 |
Adrian Bunk
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On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 07:31:04PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> writes:
>
> > CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL is a weak hint that some code might not (yet) be in
> > a perfect state, but it does not have any semantics regarding
> > userspace ABIs.
>
> Code that might not (yet) be in a perfect state sums it up pretty
> well. There is not plan or expectation to change magic numbers or
> things like that but the behavior of the code may change as bug and
> such are fixed.
>
> > A dependency on BROKEN seems more appropriate.
>
> Since you can't select that it seems a little strong.
>
> ...
>
> One of the things we talked about at the kernel summit is how
> almost inevitably when new user space interfaces are introduced
> there are problems. Someone over looks something, something
> gets changed to get through the review something like that. There was
> discussion but no consensus on how do introduce something like that
> but still allow our selves the ability to fix it. Keeping the
> code under CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL is the best suggest I have seen
> so far. Even if it is slightly expanding the definition of
> CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL.
>
> Every place the kernel uses pids is a huge scope. It is very
> easy to miss something with a scope that wide. So the engineer
> in me says chances of us missing something are pretty huge.
> Especially since I know we have bugs in -rc1.
>
> If it turns out that making multiple pid namespaces work is
> hopeless we can always change the dependency to BROKEN later.
No, we can't after 2.6.24 got released.
Let me make an example:
- looking at the timelines, e.g. Ubuntu 8.04 LTS is likely to
ship with 2.6.24
- this experimental feature might be enabled there
- this Ubuntu release with this kernel will be supported and used
for five years
> As for ABI and behavioral characteristics currently that is
> largely well defined. You are supposed to get the exact
> same thing as you would on the system if you only had a
> single pid namespace. The places where we have questionable
> semantics is in the intersections between namespaces.
>
> That is not an area I am willing to stand up and say we got
> it perfect the first time, I'm going to support our behavior
> quirks forever if I can find soon enough. Very few applications
> will care, and the differences might really matter at some point.
>
> So does any one have any better suggestions on how to deal
> with features that are enough work you aren't going to get them
> perfect the first time. You need the code merged or else you
> can not complete the feature (too many dependencies through out the
> code). You want early adopters to start playing with the feature
> so you can get feed back and you can test to make certain everything
> is going ok. You want to retain the ability to fix implementation
> details even if those details are user visible, for a time until
> things seem as good as they can reasonably get.
>
> Roughly that sounds like CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL to me. But I would
> be happy to hear if someone has a better idea.
There is a difference between "complete the feature" and "early adopters
to start playing with the feature" on the one side, and making something
available in a released kernel on the other side.
For development and playing with it it can depend on BROKEN (perhaps
with the dependency removed through the first -rc kernels), but as soon
as it's available in a -final kernel the ABI is fixed.
> Eric
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| Re: [PATCH] pidns: Place under CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL (take 2) [message #22789 is a reply to message #22399] |
Sun, 28 October 2007 16:12 |
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Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Roughly that sounds like CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL to me. But I would
> be happy to hear if someone has a better idea.
>
Rather than overload an existing config option, why not add one with the
specific semantics you want: CONFIG_UNSTABLE_UABI. The problem seems
like one which which may occur again, though one hopes not too often. I
guess the risk is that people will leave their subsystems depending on
it permanently (sysfs?), so it ends up being set all the time and
becomes as useless as EXPERIMENTAL...
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| Re: [PATCH] pidns: Place under CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL (take 2) [message #22790 is a reply to message #22405] |
Sat, 27 October 2007 05:17 |
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On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 10:40:12PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> writes:
>
> > There isn't any hard semantics behind what is marked EXPERIMENTAL and
> > what not. In it's current state, we could even consider removing the
> > EXPERIMENTAL option and all dependencies on EXPERIMENTAL.
>
> Well I do know at least some of the things that depend on experimental
> are legitimate.
>
> I wonder if the problem is that we don't police experimental well
> enough.
>
> > Currently CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=n would cost a distribution a three digit
> > number of device drivers plus several features like e.g. NFSv4.
>
> I can see a distribution carefully cherry picking things, that the
> have an intimate knowledge about out of experimental but it doesn't
> sound right for taking things out of EXPERIMENTAL to be routine.
>
> I know I'm a little slow about getting around to it but when ever I
> have a feature that isn't EXPERIMENTAL anymore I remove the tag.
Part of the picture might be that code that was included into the kernel
usually is in a state that it works at least most time for most of the
people.
And when you think about distributions, it's hard to imagine why a
distribution should not enable more or less all EXPERIMENTAL device
drivers - an EXPERIMENTAL driver is much better than no driver for this
hardware at all.
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| Re: [PATCH] pidns: Place under CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL (take 2) [message #22792 is a reply to message #22789] |
Sun, 28 October 2007 17:00 |
Adrian Bunk
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On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 09:12:34AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > Roughly that sounds like CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL to me. But I would
> > be happy to hear if someone has a better idea.
>
> Rather than overload an existing config option, why not add one with the
> specific semantics you want: CONFIG_UNSTABLE_UABI. The problem seems
> like one which which may occur again, though one hopes not too often. I
> guess the risk is that people will leave their subsystems depending on
> it permanently (sysfs?), so it ends up being set all the time and
> becomes as useless as EXPERIMENTAL...
Then let SYSFS depend on UNSTABLE_UABI for the next 10 years and we have
an excuse for breaking the ABI with each new kernel...
Either the ABI is stable or it should not be exposed to users at all.
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