pidfs: allow retrieval of namespace file descriptors
authorChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Thu, 27 Jun 2024 14:11:42 +0000 (16:11 +0200)
committerChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Fri, 28 Jun 2024 08:37:29 +0000 (10:37 +0200)
commit5b08bd408534bfb3a7cf5778da5b27d4e4fffe12
tree3c53309a97af179f2c6371f0b63a48cb36f10aea
parent460695a294e63de4e4f30ad1679ffddeec932bb8
pidfs: allow retrieval of namespace file descriptors

For users that hold a reference to a pidfd procfs might not even be
available nor is it desirable to parse through procfs just for the sake
of getting namespace file descriptors for a process.

Make it possible to directly retrieve namespace file descriptors from a
pidfd. Pidfds already can be used with setns() to change a set of
namespaces atomically.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240627-work-pidfs-v1-4-7e9ab6cc3bb1@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
fs/pidfs.c
include/uapi/linux/pidfd.h