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Christian Brauner 3ab378cfa7
Merge patch series "ns: support file handles"
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> says:

For a while now we have supported file handles for pidfds. This has
proven to be very useful.

Extend the concept to cover namespaces as well. After this patchset it
is possible to encode and decode namespace file handles using the
commong name_to_handle_at() and open_by_handle_at() apis.

Namespaces file descriptors can already be derived from pidfds which
means they aren't subject to overmount protection bugs. IOW, it's
irrelevant if the caller would not have access to an appropriate
/proc/<pid>/ns/ directory as they could always just derive the namespace
based on a pidfd already.

It has the same advantage as pidfds. It's possible to reliably and for
the lifetime of the system refer to a namespace without pinning any
resources and to compare them.

Permission checking is kept simple. If the caller is located in the
namespace the file handle refers to they are able to open it otherwise
they must hold privilege over the owning namespace of the relevant
namespace.

Both the network namespace and the mount namespace already have an
associated cookie that isn't recycled and is fully exposed to userspace.
Move this into ns_common and use the same id space for all namespaces so
they can trivially and reliably be compared.

There's more coming based on the iterator infrastructure but the series
is large enough and focuses on file handles.

Extensive selftests included.

* patches from https://lore.kernel.org/20250912-work-namespace-v2-0-1a247645cef5@kernel.org: (33 commits)
  selftests/namespaces: add file handle selftests
  selftests/namespaces: add identifier selftests
  tools: update nsfs.h uapi header
  nsfs: add missing id retrieval support
  nsfs: support exhaustive file handles
  nsfs: support file handles
  nsfs: add current_in_namespace()
  ns: add to_<type>_ns() to respective headers
  uts: support ns lookup
  user: support ns lookup
  time: support ns lookup
  pid: support ns lookup
  net: support ns lookup
  ipc: support ns lookup
  cgroup: support ns lookup
  mnt: support ns lookup
  nstree: make iterator generic
  ns: remove ns_alloc_inum()
  uts: use ns_common_init()
  user: use ns_common_init()
  ...

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
History 2025-09-19 14:26:17 +02:00
arch - Convert the SSB mitigation to the attack vector controls which got forgotten 2025-08-31 09:20:17 -07:00
block Merge branch 'no-rebase-mnt_ns_tree_remove' 2025-09-19 14:26:14 +02:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto Significant patch series in this pull request: 2025-08-03 16:23:09 -07:00
Documentation - Convert the SSB mitigation to the attack vector controls which got forgotten 2025-08-31 09:20:17 -07:00
drivers - Remove unnecessary and noisy WARN_ONs in gic-v5's init path 2025-08-31 09:07:37 -07:00
fs nsfs: add missing id retrieval support 2025-09-19 14:26:16 +02:00
include nsfs: add missing id retrieval support 2025-09-19 14:26:16 +02:00
init time: support ns lookup 2025-09-19 14:26:15 +02:00
io_uring io_uring/kbuf: always use READ_ONCE() to read ring provided buffer lengths 2025-08-28 05:48:34 -06:00
ipc ns: add to_<type>_ns() to respective headers 2025-09-19 14:26:16 +02:00
kernel ns: add to_<type>_ns() to respective headers 2025-09-19 14:26:16 +02:00
lib hardening fixes for v6.17-rc4 2025-08-31 08:56:45 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF in the GFDL-1.2 2025-07-24 11:15:39 +02:00
mm memblock fixes for v6.17-rc4 2025-08-28 15:46:06 -07:00
net ns: add to_<type>_ns() to respective headers 2025-09-19 14:26:16 +02:00
rust Driver core fixes for 6.16-rc3 2025-08-23 09:04:32 -04:00
samples Significant patch series in this pull request: 2025-08-03 16:23:09 -07:00
scripts Kbuild updates for v6.17 2025-08-06 07:32:52 +03:00
security + Features 2025-08-04 08:17:28 -07:00
sound ALSA: usb-audio: Use correct sub-type for UAC3 feature unit validation 2025-08-21 17:10:14 +02:00
tools selftests/namespaces: add file handle selftests 2025-09-19 14:26:17 +02:00
usr usr/include: openrisc: don't HDRTEST bpf_perf_event.h 2025-05-12 15:03:17 +09:00
virt Merge tag 'kvm-x86-no_assignment-6.17' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEAD 2025-07-29 08:36:42 -04:00
.clang-format Linux 6.15-rc5 2025-05-06 16:39:25 +10:00
.clippy.toml rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about clippy::disallowed_macros configuration 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: Retire Ralf Baechle 2024-11-12 15:48:59 +01:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore gitignore: allow .pylintrc to be tracked 2025-07-02 17:10:04 -06:00
.mailmap .mailmap: add entry for Easwar Hariharan 2025-08-19 16:35:55 -07:00
.pylintrc docs: add a .pylintrc file with sys path for docs scripts 2025-04-09 12:10:33 -06:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: retire Boris from TLS maintainers 2025-08-26 17:36:01 -07:00
Kbuild drm: ensure drm headers are self-contained and pass kernel-doc 2025-02-12 10:44:43 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS gpio fixes for v6.17-rc4 2025-08-31 08:49:55 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.17-rc4 2025-08-31 15:33:07 -07:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.