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Message-ID: <20170330221649.GB13761@comp-core-i7-2640m-0182e6>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 00:16:49 +0200
From: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@...il.com>
To: Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@...il.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>, kirill@...temov.name,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Dongsu Park <dpark@...teo.net>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] proc: support multiple separate proc instances
 per pidnamespace

On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 05:22:55PM +0200, Djalal Harouni wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This RFC can be applied on top of Linus' tree 89970a04d7
> 
> This RFC implements support for multiple separate proc instances inside
> the same pid namespace. This allows to solve lot of problems that
> today's use case face.
> 
> Historically procfs was tied to pid namespaces, and mount options were
> propagated to all other procfs instances in the same pid namespace. This
> solved several use cases in that time. However today we face new
> problems, there are mutliple container implementations there, some of
> them want to hide pid entries, others want to hide non-pid entries,
> others want to have sysctlfs, others want to share pid namespace with
> private procfs mounts. All these with current implementation won't work
> since all options will be propagated to all procfs mounts.
> 
> This series allow to have new instances of procfs per pid namespace where
> each instance can have its own mount option inside the same pid namespace.
> This was also suggested by Andy Lutomirski.
> 
> 
> Now:
> $ sudo mount -t proc -o unshare,hidepid=2 none /test
> 
> The option 'unshare' will allow to mount a new instance of procfs inside
> the same pid namespace.
> 
> Before:
> $ stat /proc/slabinfo
> 
>   File: ‘/proc/slabinfo’
>   Size: 0         	Blocks: 0          IO Block: 1024   regular empty file
> Device: 4h/4d	Inode: 4026532046  Links: 1
> 
> $ stat /test3/slabinfo
> 
>   File: ‘/test3/slabinfo’
>   Size: 0         	Blocks: 0          IO Block: 1024   regular empty file
> Device: 4h/4d	Inode: 4026532046  Links: 1
> 
> 
> After:
> $ stat /proc/slabinfo
> 
>   File: ‘/proc/slabinfo’
>   Size: 0         	Blocks: 0          IO Block: 1024   regular empty file
> Device: 4h/4d	Inode: 4026532046  Links: 1
> 
> $ stat /test3/slabinfo
> 
>   File: ‘/test3/slabinfo’
>   Size: 0         	Blocks: 0          IO Block: 1024   regular empty file
> Device: 31h/49d	Inode: 4026532046  Links: 1
> 
> 
> Any better name for the option 'unshare' ? suggestions ?
> 
> I was going to use 'version=2' but then this may sound more like a
> proc2 fs which currently impossible to implement since it will share
> locks with the old proc.
> 
> 
> Al, Eric any comments please ?

Multiple mnt_root's lead us to significant memory costs for storing dentry
of tasks. I mean what we will get as many copies of the tasks dentry as many
times we have mounted the procfs with 'unshare' flag. No?

-- 
Rgrds, legion

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