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authorJANAK DESAI <janak@us.ibm.com>2006-02-07 12:59:00 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-02-07 16:12:34 -0800
commit741a295130606143edbf9fc740f633dbc1e6225f (patch)
tree3679047dd44e94ba94ee1487880a94def93a06f9 /fs/namespace.c
parent99d1419d96d7df9cfa56bc977810be831bd5ef64 (diff)
[PATCH] unshare system call -v5: unshare namespace
If the namespace structure is being shared, allocate a new one and copy information from the current, shared, structure. Signed-off-by: Janak Desai <janak@us.ibm.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/namespace.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/namespace.c56
1 files changed, 36 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index ce97becff46..a2bef5c8103 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -1325,27 +1325,17 @@ dput_out:
return retval;
}
-int copy_namespace(int flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
+/*
+ * Allocate a new namespace structure and populate it with contents
+ * copied from the namespace of the passed in task structure.
+ */
+struct namespace *dup_namespace(struct task_struct *tsk, struct fs_struct *fs)
{
struct namespace *namespace = tsk->namespace;
struct namespace *new_ns;
struct vfsmount *rootmnt = NULL, *pwdmnt = NULL, *altrootmnt = NULL;
- struct fs_struct *fs = tsk->fs;
struct vfsmount *p, *q;
- if (!namespace)
- return 0;
-
- get_namespace(namespace);
-
- if (!(flags & CLONE_NEWNS))
- return 0;
-
- if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) {
- put_namespace(namespace);
- return -EPERM;
- }
-
new_ns = kmalloc(sizeof(struct namespace), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!new_ns)
goto out;
@@ -1396,8 +1386,6 @@ int copy_namespace(int flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
}
up_write(&namespace_sem);
- tsk->namespace = new_ns;
-
if (rootmnt)
mntput(rootmnt);
if (pwdmnt)
@@ -1405,12 +1393,40 @@ int copy_namespace(int flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
if (altrootmnt)
mntput(altrootmnt);
- put_namespace(namespace);
- return 0;
+out:
+ return new_ns;
+}
+
+int copy_namespace(int flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+ struct namespace *namespace = tsk->namespace;
+ struct namespace *new_ns;
+ int err = 0;
+
+ if (!namespace)
+ return 0;
+
+ get_namespace(namespace);
+
+ if (!(flags & CLONE_NEWNS))
+ return 0;
+
+ if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) {
+ err = -EPERM;
+ goto out;
+ }
+
+ new_ns = dup_namespace(tsk, tsk->fs);
+ if (!new_ns) {
+ err = -ENOMEM;
+ goto out;
+ }
+
+ tsk->namespace = new_ns;
out:
put_namespace(namespace);
- return -ENOMEM;
+ return err;
}
asmlinkage long sys_mount(char __user * dev_name, char __user * dir_name,