[PATCH v2 1/2] ns: Allow ns_entries to have custom symlink content

[Kirill Tkhai]

Patch series "Expose task pid_ns_for_children to userspace".

pid_ns_for_children set by a task is known only to the task itself, and
it's impossible to identify it from outside.

It's a big problem for checkpoint/restore software like CRIU, because it
can't correctly handle tasks, that do setns(CLONE_NEWPID) in proccess of
their work.  If they have a custom pid_ns_for_children before dump, they
must have the same ns after restore.  Otherwise, restored task bumped into
enviroment it does not expect.

This patchset solves the problem.  It exposes pid_ns_for_children to ns
directory in standard way with the name "pid_for_children":

~# ls /proc/5531/ns -l | grep pid
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 14 16:38 pid -> pid:[4026531836]
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 14 16:38 pid_for_children -> pid:[4026532286]

This patch (of 2):

Make possible to have link content prefix yyy
different from the link name xxx:

$ readlink /proc/[pid]/ns/xxx
yyy:[4026531838]

This will be used in next patch.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktk...@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcu...@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Andrei Vagin <ava...@virtuozzo.com>
---
 fs/nsfs.c               |    4 +++-
 include/linux/proc_ns.h |    1 +
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/nsfs.c b/fs/nsfs.c
index 1656843e87d2..495f12b83a7b 100644
--- a/fs/nsfs.c
+++ b/fs/nsfs.c
@@ -195,9 +195,11 @@ int ns_get_name(char *buf, size_t size, struct task_struct 
*task,
 {
        struct ns_common *ns;
        int res = -ENOENT;
+       const char *name;
        ns = ns_ops->get(task);
        if (ns) {
-               res = snprintf(buf, size, "%s:[%u]", ns_ops->name, ns->inum);
+               name = ns_ops->real_ns_name ? : ns_ops->name;
+               res = snprintf(buf, size, "%s:[%u]", name, ns->inum);
                ns_ops->put(ns);
        }
        return res;
diff --git a/include/linux/proc_ns.h b/include/linux/proc_ns.h
index 12cb8bd81d2d..88dba3b53375 100644
--- a/include/linux/proc_ns.h
+++ b/include/linux/proc_ns.h
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ struct inode;
 
 struct proc_ns_operations {
        const char *name;
+       const char *real_ns_name;
        int type;
        struct ns_common *(*get)(struct task_struct *task);
        void (*put)(struct ns_common *ns);