[PATCH 6/9] mnt: simplify ns_common_init() handling

From: Christian Brauner
Date: Wed Sep 17 2025 - 06:31:50 EST


Assign the reserved MNT_NS_ANON_INO sentinel to anonymous mount
namespaces and cleanup the initial mount ns allocation. This is just a
preparatory patch and the ns->inum check in ns_common_init() will be
dropped in the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/namespace.c | 7 ++++---
kernel/nscommon.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index c8251545d57e..09e4ecd44972 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -4104,6 +4104,8 @@ static struct mnt_namespace *alloc_mnt_ns(struct user_namespace *user_ns, bool a
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
}

+ if (anon)
+ new_ns->ns.inum = MNT_NS_ANON_INO;
ret = ns_common_init(&new_ns->ns, &mntns_operations, !anon);
if (ret) {
kfree(new_ns);
@@ -6020,10 +6022,9 @@ static void __init init_mount_tree(void)
if (IS_ERR(mnt))
panic("Can't create rootfs");

- ns = alloc_mnt_ns(&init_user_ns, true);
+ ns = alloc_mnt_ns(&init_user_ns, false);
if (IS_ERR(ns))
panic("Can't allocate initial namespace");
- ns->ns.inum = PROC_MNT_INIT_INO;
m = real_mount(mnt);
ns->root = m;
ns->nr_mounts = 1;
@@ -6037,7 +6038,7 @@ static void __init init_mount_tree(void)
set_fs_pwd(current->fs, &root);
set_fs_root(current->fs, &root);

- ns_tree_add(ns);
+ ns_tree_add_raw(ns);
init_mnt_ns = ns;
}

diff --git a/kernel/nscommon.c b/kernel/nscommon.c
index ebf4783d0505..e10fad8afe61 100644
--- a/kernel/nscommon.c
+++ b/kernel/nscommon.c
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
int ns_common_init(struct ns_common *ns, const struct proc_ns_operations *ops,
bool alloc_inum)
{
- if (alloc_inum) {
+ if (alloc_inum && !ns->inum) {
int ret;
ret = proc_alloc_inum(&ns->inum);
if (ret)

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