Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Apparently my hijack test program was just too mean-n-lean to show just
> how fragile sys_hijack was.  Once it tried to do any kind of actual work
> before doing an exec(), it would segfault.  Apparently just letting
> dup_task_struct() do "*tsk = *hijacked_task" was bogus.
> 
> Mark, I'm sorry, this is without your powerpc/x86_64 patches.  But note
> that I took out the 'copy_a_thread' stuff which was bogus anyway.

That's fine - I needed to do more testing on them anyway :)

I'll work on re-spinning them against this v8 of sys_hijack after I finish
up with 2.6.23-mm1-lxc1.

Thanks!

Mark.

> 
> It's incomplete, I need to walk through the task_struct and copy more of
> the relevant pieces from the hijacked task_struct.  But this appears to
> be robust.
> 
> Tested with entering unshared uts namespace and with cloned
> pidns+mountns+utsns container.
> 
> thanks,
> -serge
> 
> PS: also a typo fix in the hijack.c code.
> 
>>From 0efe7d1f607438be986d7000571fda406a866b12 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: sergeh@us.ibm.com <sergeh@us.ibm.com>
> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:36:49 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] namespaces: introduce sys_hijack (v8)
> 
> Move most of do_fork() into a new do_fork_task() which acts on
> a new argument, task, rather than on current.  do_fork() becomes
> a call to do_fork_task(current, ...).
> 
> Introduce sys_hijack (for x86 only so far).  It is like clone, but
>  in place of a stack pointer (which is assumed null) it accepts a
> pid.  The process identified by that pid is the one which is
> actually cloned.  Some state - include the file table, the signals
> and sighand (and hence tty), and the ->parent are taken from the
> calling process.
> 
> A process to be hijacked may be identified by process id.
> Alternatively, an open fd for a cgroup 'tasks' file may be
> specified.  The first available task in that cgroup will then
> be hijacked.
> 
> In order to hijack a process, the calling process must be
> allowed to ptrace the target.
> 
> The effect is a sort of namespace enter.  The following program
> uses sys_hijack to 'enter' all namespaces of the specified task.
> For instance in one terminal, do
> 
> 	mount -t cgroup -ons /cgroup
> 	hostname
> 	  qemu
> 	ns_exec -u /bin/sh
> 	  hostname serge
>           echo $$
>             1073
> 	  cat /proc/$$/cgroup
> 	    ns:/node_1073
> 
> In another terminal then do
> 
> 	hostname
> 	  qemu
> 	cat /proc/$$/cgroup
> 	  ns:/
> 	hijack pid 1073
> 	  hostname
> 	    serge
> 	  cat /proc/$$/cgroup
> 	    ns:/node_1073
> 	hijack cgroup /cgroup/node_1073/tasks
> 
> Changelog:
> 	Aug 23: send a stop signal to the hijacked process
> 		(like ptrace does).
> 	Oct 09: Update for 2.6.23-rc8-mm2 (mainly pidns)
> 		Don't take task_lock under rcu_read_lock
> 		Send hijacked process to cgroup_fork() as
> 		the first argument.
> 		Removed some unneeded task_locks.
> 	Oct 16: Fix bug introduced into alloc_pid.
> 	Oct 16: Add 'int which' argument to sys_hijack to
> 		allow later expansion to use cgroup in place
> 		of pid to specify what to hijack.
> 	Oct 24: Implement hijack by open cgroup file.
> 	Nov 02: Switch copying of task info: do full copy
> 		from current, then copy relevant pieces from
> 		hijacked task.
> 
> ==============================================================
> hijack.c
> ==============================================================
>  #define _BSD_SOURCE
>  #include <unistd.h>
>  #include <sys/syscall.h>
>  #include <sys/types.h>
>  #include <sys/wait.h>
>  #include <sys/stat.h>
>  #include <fcntl.h>
>  #include <sched.h>
> 
> void usage(char *me)
> {
> 	printf("Usage: %s pid <pid> | %s cgroup <cgroup_tasks_file>\n", me, me);
> }
> 
> int exec_shell(void)
> {
> 	execl("/bin/sh", "/bin/sh", NULL);
> }
> 
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
> 	int id;
> 	int ret;
> 	int status;
> 	int use_pid = 0;
> 
> 	if (argc < 3 || !strcmp(argv[1], "-h")) {
> 		usage(argv[0]);
> 		return 1;
> 	}
> 	if (strcmp(argv[1], "pid") == 0)
> 		use_pid = 1;
> 
> 	if (use_pid)
> 		id = atoi(argv[2]);
> 	else {
> 		id = open(argv[2], O_RDONLY);
> 		if (id == -1) {
> 			perror("cgroup open");
> 			return 1;
> 		}
> 	}
> 
> 	ret = syscall(327, SIGCHLD, use_pid ? 1 : 2, (unsigned long)id);
> 
> 	if (!use_pid)
> 		close(id);
> 	if  (ret == 0) {
> 		return exec_shell();
> 	} else if (ret < 0) {
> 		perror("sys_hijack");
> 	} else {
> 		printf("waiting on cloned process %d\n", ret);
> 		while(waitpid(-1, &status, __WALL) != -1)
> 				;
> 		printf("cloned process exited with %d (waitpid ret %d)\n",
> 				status, ret);
> 	}
> 
> 	return ret;
> }
> ==============================================================
> 
> Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
> ---
>  arch/i386/kernel/process.c       |   77 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/i386/kernel/syscall_table.S |    1 +
>  include/asm-i386/unistd.h        |    3 +-
>  include/linux/cgroup.h           |   10 +++-
>  include/linux/ptrace.h           |    1 +
>  include/linux/sched.h            |    7 +++
>  include/linux/syscalls.h         |    1 +
>  kernel/cgroup.c                  |   69 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  kernel/fork.c                    |   92 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  kernel/ptrace.c                  |    7 +++
>  10 files changed, 244 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/process.c b/arch/i386/kernel/process.c
> index eab6c62..8add6e4 100644
> --- a/arch/i386/kernel/process.c
> +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/process.c
> @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
>  #include <linux/personality.h>
>  #include <linux/tick.h>
>  #include <linux/percpu.h>
> +#include <linux/cgroup.h>
>  
>  #include <asm/uaccess.h>
>  #include <asm/pgtable.h>
> @@ -784,6 +785,82 @@ asmlinkage int sys_clone(struct pt_regs regs)
>  }
>  
>  /*
> + * Called with task count bumped, drops task count before returning
> + */
> +static int hijack_task(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs regs)
> +{
> +	unsigned long clone_flags = regs.ebx;
> +	int ret = -EINVAL;
> +
> +	task_lock(task);
> +	put_task_struct(task);
> +	if (!ptrace_may_attach_locked(task)) {
> +		ret = -EPERM;
> +		goto out_put_task;
> +	}
> +	if (task->ptrace) {
> +		ret = -EBUSY;
> +		goto out_put_task;
> +	}
> +	force_sig_specific(SIGSTOP, task);
> +
> +	task_unlock(task);
> +	ret = do_fork_task(task, clone_flags, regs.esp, &regs, 0,
> +		NULL, NULL);
> +	wake_up_process(task);
> +	return ret;
> +
> +out_put_task:
> +	task_unlock(task);
> +	return ret;
> +}
> +
> +static int hijack_pid(struct pt_regs regs)
> +{
> +	pid_t pid = regs.edx;
> +	struct task_struct *task;
> +
> +	rcu_read_lock();
> +	task = find_task_by_vpid(pid);
> +	if (task)
> +		get_task_struct(task);
> +	rcu_read_unlock();
> +	
> +	if (!task)
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
> +	return hijack_task(task, regs);
> +}
> +
> +static int hijack_cgroup(struct pt_regs regs)
> +{
> +	unsigned int fd;
> +	struct task_struct *task;
> +
> +	fd = (unsigned int) regs.edx;
> +	task = task_from_cgroup_fd(fd);
> +	if (IS_ERR(task))
> +		return PTR_ERR(task);
> +
> +	return hijack_task(task, regs);
> +}
> +
> +asmlinkage int sys_hijack(struct pt_regs regs)
> +{
> +	int which = regs.ecx;
> +
> +	switch (which) {
> +	case HIJACK_PID:
> +		return hijack_pid(regs);
> +	case HIJACK_CGROUP:
> +		return hijack_cgroup(regs);
> +	default:
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +	}
> +
> +}
> +
> +/*
>   * This is trivial, and on the face of it looks like it
>   * could equally well be done in user mode.
>   *
> diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/syscall_table.S b/arch/i386/kernel/syscall_table.S
> index df6e41e..495930c 100644
> --- a/arch/i386/kernel/syscall_table.S
> +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/syscall_table.S
> @@ -326,3 +326,4 @@ ENTRY(sys_call_table)
>  	.long sys_fallocate
>  	.long sys_revokeat		/* 325 */
>  	.long sys_frevoke
> +	.long sys_hijack
> diff --git a/include/asm-i386/unistd.h b/include/asm-i386/unistd.h
> index 006c1b3..fe6eeb4 100644
> --- a/include/asm-i386/unistd.h
> +++ b/include/asm-i386/unistd.h
> @@ -332,10 +332,11 @@
>  #define __NR_fallocate		324
>  #define __NR_revokeat		325
>  #define __NR_frevoke		326
> +#define __NR_hijack		327
>  
>  #ifdef __KERNEL__
>  
> -#define NR_syscalls 327
> +#define NR_syscalls 328
>  
>  #define __ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
>  #define __ARCH_WANT_OLD_READDIR
> diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup.h b/include/linux/cgroup.h
> index 8747932..3edb820 100644
> --- a/include/linux/cgroup.h
> +++ b/include/linux/cgroup.h
> @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ extern int cgroup_init(void);
>  extern void cgroup_init_smp(void);
>  extern void cgroup_lock(void);
>  extern void cgroup_unlock(void);
> -extern void cgroup_fork(struct task_struct *p);
> +extern void cgroup_fork(struct task_struct *parent, struct task_struct *p);
>  extern void cgroup_fork_callbacks(struct task_struct *p);
>  extern void cgroup_post_fork(struct task_struct *p);
>  extern void cgroup_exit(str