So far setns() was missing time namespace support. This was partially due
to it simply not being implemented but also because vdso_join_timens()
could still fail which made switching to multiple namespaces atomically
problematic. This is now fixed so support CLONE_NEWTIME with setns()
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200706154912.3248030-4-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
Wrap the calls to timens_set_vvar_page() and vdso_join_timens() in
timens_on_fork() and timens_install() in a new timens_commit() helper.
We'll use this helper in a follow-up patch in nsproxy too.
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200706154912.3248030-3-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
As discussed on-list (cf. [1]), in order to make setns() support time
namespaces when attaching to multiple namespaces at once properly we
need to tweak vdso_join_timens() to always succeed. So switch
vdso_join_timens() to using a read lock and replacing
mmap_write_lock_killable() to mmap_read_lock() as we discussed.
Last cycle setns() was changed to support attaching to multiple namespaces
atomically. This requires all namespaces to have a point of no return where
they can't fail anymore. Specifically, <namespace-type>_install() is
allowed to perform permission checks and install the namespace into the new
struct nsset that it has been given but it is not allowed to make visible
changes to the affected task. Once <namespace-type>_install() returns
anything that the given namespace type requires to be setup in addition
needs to ideally be done in a function that can't fail or if it fails the
failure is not fatal. For time namespaces the relevant functions that fall
into this category are timens_set_vvar_page() and vdso_join_timens().
Currently the latter can fail but doesn't need to. With this we can go on
to implement a timens_commit() helper in a follow up patch to be used by
setns().
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200611110221.pgd3r5qkjrjmfqa2@wittgenstein
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200706154912.3248030-2-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
Add a simple struct nsset. It holds all necessary pieces to switch to a new
set of namespaces without leaving a task in a half-switched state which we
will make use of in the next patch. This patch switches the existing setns
logic over without causing a change in setns() behavior. This brings
setns() closer to how unshare() works(). The prepare_ns() function is
responsible to prepare all necessary information. This has two reasons.
First it minimizes dependencies between individual namespaces, i.e. all
install handler can expect that all fields are properly initialized
independent in what order they are called in. Second, this makes the code
easier to maintain and easier to follow if it needs to be changed.
The prepare_ns() helper will only be switched over to use a flags argument
in the next patch. Here it will still use nstype as a simple integer
argument which was argued would be clearer. I'm not particularly
opinionated about this if it really helps or not. The struct nsset itself
already contains the flags field since its name already indicates that it
can contain information required by different namespaces. None of this
should have functional consequences.
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Reviewed-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200505140432.181565-2-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
Michael Kerrisk suggested to replace numeric clock IDs with symbolic names.
Now the content of these files looks like this:
$ cat /proc/774/timens_offsets
monotonic 864000 0
boottime 1728000 0
For setting offsets, both representations of clocks (numeric and symbolic)
can be used.
As for compatibility, it is acceptable to change things as long as
userspace doesn't care. The format of timens_offsets files is very new and
there are no userspace tools yet which rely on this format.
But three projects crun, util-linux and criu rely on the interface of
setting time offsets and this is why it's required to continue supporting
the numeric clock IDs on write.
Fixes: 04a8682a71 ("fs/proc: Introduce /proc/pid/timens_offsets")
Suggested-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200411154031.642557-1-avagin@gmail.com
Looking at the contents of the /proc/PID/ns/time_for_children symlink shows
an anomaly:
$ ls -l /proc/self/ns/* |awk '{print $9, $10, $11}'
...
/proc/self/ns/pid -> pid:[4026531836]
/proc/self/ns/pid_for_children -> pid:[4026531836]
/proc/self/ns/time -> time:[4026531834]
/proc/self/ns/time_for_children -> time_for_children:[4026531834]
/proc/self/ns/user -> user:[4026531837]
...
The reference for 'time_for_children' should be a 'time' namespace, just as
the reference for 'pid_for_children' is a 'pid' namespace. In other words,
the above time_for_children link should read:
/proc/self/ns/time_for_children -> time:[4026531834]
Fixes: 769071ac9f ("ns: Introduce Time Namespace")
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Acked-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a2418c48-ed80-3afe-116e-6611cb799557@gmail.com
Move the time namespace indicator clock mode to the other ones for
consistency sake.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200207124403.656097274@linutronix.de
API to set time namespace offsets for children processes, i.e.:
echo "$clockid $offset_sec $offset_nsec" > /proc/self/timens_offsets
Co-developed-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191112012724.250792-28-dima@arista.com
The VVAR page layout depends on whether a task belongs to the root or
non-root time namespace. Whenever a task changes its namespace, the VVAR
page tables are cleared and then they will be re-faulted with a
corresponding layout.
Co-developed-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191112012724.250792-27-dima@arista.com
VDSO support for Time namespace needs to set up a page with the same
layout as VVAR. That timens page will be placed on position of VVAR page
inside namespace. That page contains time namespace clock offsets and it
has vdso_data->seq set to 1 to enforce the slow path and
vdso_data->clock_mode set to VCLOCK_TIMENS to enforce the time namespace
handling path.
Allocate the timens page during namespace creation. Setup the offsets
when the first task enters the ns and freeze them to guarantee the pace
of monotonic/boottime clocks and to avoid breakage of applications.
The design decision is to have a global offset_lock which is used during
namespace offsets setup and to freeze offsets when the first task joins the
new time namespace. That is better in terms of memory usage compared to
having a per namespace mutex that's used only during the setup period.
Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Based-on-work-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Co-developed-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191112012724.250792-24-dima@arista.com
The helper subtracts namespace's clock offset from the given time
and ensures that the result is within [0, KTIME_MAX].
Co-developed-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191112012724.250792-13-dima@arista.com
Introduce offsets for time namespace. They will contain an adjustment
needed to convert clocks to/from host's.
A new namespace is created with the same offsets as the time namespace
of the current process.
Co-developed-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191112012724.250792-5-dima@arista.com
Time Namespace isolates clock values.
The kernel provides access to several clocks CLOCK_REALTIME,
CLOCK_MONOTONIC, CLOCK_BOOTTIME, etc.
CLOCK_REALTIME
System-wide clock that measures real (i.e., wall-clock) time.
CLOCK_MONOTONIC
Clock that cannot be set and represents monotonic time since
some unspecified starting point.
CLOCK_BOOTTIME
Identical to CLOCK_MONOTONIC, except it also includes any time
that the system is suspended.
For many users, the time namespace means the ability to changes date and
time in a container (CLOCK_REALTIME). Providing per namespace notions of
CLOCK_REALTIME would be complex with a massive overhead, but has a dubious
value.
But in the context of checkpoint/restore functionality, monotonic and
boottime clocks become interesting. Both clocks are monotonic with
unspecified starting points. These clocks are widely used to measure time
slices and set timers. After restoring or migrating processes, it has to be
guaranteed that they never go backward. In an ideal case, the behavior of
these clocks should be the same as for a case when a whole system is
suspended. All this means that it is required to set CLOCK_MONOTONIC and
CLOCK_BOOTTIME clocks, which can be achieved by adding per-namespace
offsets for clocks.
A time namespace is similar to a pid namespace in the way how it is
created: unshare(CLONE_NEWTIME) system call creates a new time namespace,
but doesn't set it to the current process. Then all children of the process
will be born in the new time namespace, or a process can use the setns()
system call to join a namespace.
This scheme allows setting clock offsets for a namespace, before any
processes appear in it.
All available clone flags have been used, so CLONE_NEWTIME uses the highest
bit of CSIGNAL. It means that it can be used only with the unshare() and
the clone3() system calls.
[ tglx: Adjusted paragraph about clone3() to reality and massaged the
changelog a bit. ]
Co-developed-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://criu.org/Time_namespace
Link: https://lists.openvz.org/pipermail/criu/2018-June/041504.html
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191112012724.250792-4-dima@arista.com
