pidns: Make the pidns proc mount/umount logic obvious.

Track the number of pids in the proc hash table.  When the number of
pids goes to 0 schedule work to unmount the kernel mount of proc.

Move the mount of proc into alloc_pid when we allocate the pid for
init.

Remove the surprising calls of pid_ns_release proc in fork and
proc_flush_task.  Those code paths really shouldn't know about proc
namespace implementation details and people have demonstrated several
times that finding and understanding those code paths is difficult and
non-obvious.

Because of the call path detach pid is alwasy called with the
rtnl_lock held free_pid is not allowed to sleep, so the work to
unmounting proc is moved to a work queue.  This has the side benefit
of not blocking the entire world waiting for the unnecessary
rcu_barrier in deactivate_locked_super.

In the process of making the code clear and obvious this fixes a bug
reported by Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com> where we would leak a
mount of proc during clone(CLONE_NEWPID|CLONE_NEWNET) if copy_pid_ns
succeeded and copy_net_ns failed.

Acked-by: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/pid_namespace.c b/kernel/pid_namespace.c
index b2604950aa5..84591cfeefc 100644
--- a/kernel/pid_namespace.c
+++ b/kernel/pid_namespace.c
@@ -72,6 +72,12 @@ err_alloc:
 	return NULL;
 }
 
+static void proc_cleanup_work(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+	struct pid_namespace *ns = container_of(work, struct pid_namespace, proc_work);
+	pid_ns_release_proc(ns);
+}
+
 /* MAX_PID_NS_LEVEL is needed for limiting size of 'struct pid' */
 #define MAX_PID_NS_LEVEL 32
 
@@ -105,6 +111,7 @@ static struct pid_namespace *create_pid_namespace(struct user_namespace *user_ns
 	ns->level = level;
 	ns->parent = get_pid_ns(parent_pid_ns);
 	ns->user_ns = get_user_ns(user_ns);
+	INIT_WORK(&ns->proc_work, proc_cleanup_work);
 
 	set_bit(0, ns->pidmap[0].page);
 	atomic_set(&ns->pidmap[0].nr_free, BITS_PER_PAGE - 1);
@@ -112,15 +119,8 @@ static struct pid_namespace *create_pid_namespace(struct user_namespace *user_ns
 	for (i = 1; i < PIDMAP_ENTRIES; i++)
 		atomic_set(&ns->pidmap[i].nr_free, BITS_PER_PAGE);
 
-	err = pid_ns_prepare_proc(ns);
-	if (err)
-		goto out_put_parent_pid_ns;
-
 	return ns;
 
-out_put_parent_pid_ns:
-	put_pid_ns(parent_pid_ns);
-	put_user_ns(user_ns);
 out_free_map:
 	kfree(ns->pidmap[0].page);
 out_free: