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Pavel Emelyanov e9720acd72 [NET]: Make /proc/net a symlink on /proc/self/net (v3)
Current /proc/net is done with so called "shadows", but current
implementation is broken and has little chances to get fixed.

The problem is that dentries subtree of /proc/net directory has
fancy revalidation rules to make processes living in different
net namespaces see different entries in /proc/net subtree, but
currently, tasks see in the /proc/net subdir the contents of any
other namespace, depending on who opened the file first.

The proposed fix is to turn /proc/net into a symlink, which points
to /proc/self/net, which in turn shows what previously was in
/proc/net - the network-related info, from the net namespace the
appropriate task lives in.

# ls -l /proc/net
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 8 Mar  5 15:17 /proc/net -> self/net

In other words - this behaves like /proc/mounts, but unlike
"mounts", "net" is not a file, but a directory.

Changes from v2:
* Fixed discrepancy of /proc/net nlink count and selinux labeling
  screwup pointed out by Stephen.

  To get the correct nlink count the ->getattr callback for /proc/net
  is overridden to read one from the net->proc_net entry.

  To make selinux still work the net->proc_net entry is initialized
  properly, i.e. with the "net" name and the proc_net parent.

Selinux fixes are
Acked-by:  Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>

Changes from v1:
* Fixed a task_struct leak in get_proc_task_net, pointed out by Paul.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-07 11:08:40 -08:00
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acpi ACPI, cpuidle: Clarify C-state description in sysfs 2008-02-14 00:09:55 -05:00
asm-alpha CONFIG_HIGHPTE vs. sub-page page tables. 2008-02-08 09:22:42 -08:00
asm-arm spi: pxa2xx_spi clock polarity fix 2008-02-23 17:12:14 -08:00
asm-avr32 CONFIG_HIGHPTE vs. sub-page page tables. 2008-02-08 09:22:42 -08:00
asm-blackfin Add pgtable_t to remaining nommu architectures 2008-02-09 11:08:33 -08:00
asm-cris Merge branch 'cris' of git://www.jni.nu/cris 2008-02-08 10:01:28 -08:00
asm-frv FRV: Change the timerfd syscalls to be the same as i386 2008-02-20 19:58:16 -08:00
asm-generic percpu: fix DEBUG_PREEMPT per_cpu checking 2008-02-23 12:09:28 -08:00
asm-h8300 h8300: IRQ handling update 2008-02-23 17:12:16 -08:00
asm-ia64 [IA64] Fix build for sim_defconfig 2008-02-11 13:23:46 -08:00
asm-m32r CONFIG_HIGHPTE vs. sub-page page tables. 2008-02-08 09:22:42 -08:00
asm-m68k CONFIG_HIGHPTE vs. sub-page page tables. 2008-02-08 09:22:42 -08:00
asm-m68knommu m68knommu: use tabs not spaces in cacheflush.h 2008-02-14 20:58:05 -08:00
asm-mips Alchemy: compile fix 2008-02-24 20:03:42 +01:00
asm-mn10300 MN10300: define SO_MARK 2008-02-23 17:12:13 -08:00
asm-parisc CONFIG_HIGHPTE vs. sub-page page tables. 2008-02-08 09:22:42 -08:00
asm-powerpc percpu: fix DEBUG_PREEMPT per_cpu checking 2008-02-23 12:09:28 -08:00
asm-ppc [POWERPC] Fix arch/ppc compilation - add typedef for pgtable_t 2008-02-14 22:11:02 +11:00
asm-s390 [S390] find bit corner case. 2008-02-19 15:29:33 +01:00
asm-sh sh: fix ioreadN_rep and iowriteN_rep 2008-02-14 14:25:37 +09:00
asm-sparc [SPARC]: Merge asm-sparc{,64}/a.out.h 2008-02-09 22:25:50 -08:00
asm-sparc64 [SPARC64]: More sparse warning fixes in process.c 2008-02-19 21:25:50 -08:00
asm-um uml: x86_64 should copy %fs during fork 2008-02-08 09:22:43 -08:00
asm-v850 Add pgtable_t to remaining nommu architectures 2008-02-09 11:08:33 -08:00
asm-x86 Remove empty file remnants that were left in the tree by mistake 2008-02-20 19:56:01 -08:00
asm-xtensa [XTENSA] Allow debugger to modify the WINDOWBASE register. 2008-02-13 17:45:36 -08:00
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linux [NET]: Make /proc/net a symlink on /proc/self/net (v3) 2008-03-07 11:08:40 -08:00
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