cgroup: remove the ns_cgroup

The ns_cgroup is an annoying cgroup at the namespace / cgroup frontier and
leads to some problems:

  * cgroup creation is out-of-control
  * cgroup name can conflict when pids are looping
  * it is not possible to have a single process handling a lot of
    namespaces without falling in a exponential creation time
  * we may want to create a namespace without creating a cgroup

  The ns_cgroup was replaced by a compatibility flag 'clone_children',
  where a newly created cgroup will copy the parent cgroup values.
  The userspace has to manually create a cgroup and add a task to
  the 'tasks' file.

This patch removes the ns_cgroup as suggested in the following thread:

https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/containers/2009-June/018616.html

The 'cgroup_clone' function is removed because it is no longer used.

This is a userspace-visible change.  Commit 45531757b45c ("cgroup: notify
ns_cgroup deprecated") (merged into 2.6.27) caused the kernel to emit a
printk warning users that the feature is planned for removal.  Since that
time we have heard from XXX users who were affected by this.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Acked-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 118 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/ns_cgroup.c b/kernel/ns_cgroup.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 2c98ad94ba0..00000000000
--- a/kernel/ns_cgroup.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,118 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * ns_cgroup.c - namespace cgroup subsystem
- *
- * Copyright 2006, 2007 IBM Corp
- */
-
-#include <linux/module.h>
-#include <linux/cgroup.h>
-#include <linux/fs.h>
-#include <linux/proc_fs.h>
-#include <linux/slab.h>
-#include <linux/nsproxy.h>
-
-struct ns_cgroup {
-	struct cgroup_subsys_state css;
-};
-
-struct cgroup_subsys ns_subsys;
-
-static inline struct ns_cgroup *cgroup_to_ns(
-		struct cgroup *cgroup)
-{
-	return container_of(cgroup_subsys_state(cgroup, ns_subsys_id),
-			    struct ns_cgroup, css);
-}
-
-int ns_cgroup_clone(struct task_struct *task, struct pid *pid)
-{
-	char name[PROC_NUMBUF];
-
-	snprintf(name, PROC_NUMBUF, "%d", pid_vnr(pid));
-	return cgroup_clone(task, &ns_subsys, name);
-}
-
-/*
- * Rules:
- *   1. you can only enter a cgroup which is a descendant of your current
- *     cgroup
- *   2. you can only place another process into a cgroup if
- *     a. you have CAP_SYS_ADMIN
- *     b. your cgroup is an ancestor of task's destination cgroup
- *       (hence either you are in the same cgroup as task, or in an
- *        ancestor cgroup thereof)
- */
-static int ns_can_attach(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *new_cgroup,
-			 struct task_struct *task, bool threadgroup)
-{
-	if (current != task) {
-		if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
-			return -EPERM;
-
-		if (!cgroup_is_descendant(new_cgroup, current))
-			return -EPERM;
-	}
-
-	if (!cgroup_is_descendant(new_cgroup, task))
-		return -EPERM;
-
-	if (threadgroup) {
-		struct task_struct *c;
-		rcu_read_lock();
-		list_for_each_entry_rcu(c, &task->thread_group, thread_group) {
-			if (!cgroup_is_descendant(new_cgroup, c)) {
-				rcu_read_unlock();
-				return -EPERM;
-			}
-		}
-		rcu_read_unlock();
-	}
-
-	return 0;
-}
-
-/*
- * Rules: you can only create a cgroup if
- *     1. you are capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)
- *     2. the target cgroup is a descendant of your own cgroup
- */
-static struct cgroup_subsys_state *ns_create(struct cgroup_subsys *ss,
-						struct cgroup *cgroup)
-{
-	struct ns_cgroup *ns_cgroup;
-
-	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
-		return ERR_PTR(-EPERM);
-	if (!cgroup_is_descendant(cgroup, current))
-		return ERR_PTR(-EPERM);
-	if (test_bit(CGRP_CLONE_CHILDREN, &cgroup->flags)) {
-		printk("ns_cgroup can't be created with parent "
-		       "'clone_children' set.\n");
-		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
-	}
-
-	printk_once("ns_cgroup deprecated: consider using the "
-		    "'clone_children' flag without the ns_cgroup.\n");
-
-	ns_cgroup = kzalloc(sizeof(*ns_cgroup), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!ns_cgroup)
-		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
-	return &ns_cgroup->css;
-}
-
-static void ns_destroy(struct cgroup_subsys *ss,
-			struct cgroup *cgroup)
-{
-	struct ns_cgroup *ns_cgroup;
-
-	ns_cgroup = cgroup_to_ns(cgroup);
-	kfree(ns_cgroup);
-}
-
-struct cgroup_subsys ns_subsys = {
-	.name = "ns",
-	.can_attach = ns_can_attach,
-	.create = ns_create,
-	.destroy  = ns_destroy,
-	.subsys_id = ns_subsys_id,
-};