Re: [PATCH RESEND 2/2] pidns: Expose task pid_ns_for_children to userspace

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2017 13:27:59 +0300 Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> This patch solves the problem, and 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]
> 
> --- a/fs/proc/namespaces.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/namespaces.c
> @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ static const struct proc_ns_operations *ns_entries[] = {
>  #endif
>  #ifdef CONFIG_PID_NS
>  	&pidns_operations,
> +	&pidns_for_children_operations,
>  #endif

This interface should be documented somewhere under Documentation/. 
But I can't immediately find where the /proc/pid/ns/ pseudo-files are
documented...