Merge tag 'threads-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux

Pull thread updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the changes to add the missing support for attaching to
  time namespaces via pidfds.

  Last cycle setns() was changed to support attaching to multiple
  namespaces atomically. This requires all namespaces to have a point of
  no return where they can't fail anymore.

  Specifically, <namespace-type>_install() is allowed to perform
  permission checks and install the namespace into the new struct nsset
  that it has been given but it is not allowed to make visible changes
  to the affected task. Once <namespace-type>_install() returns,
  anything that the given namespace type additionally requires to be
  setup needs to ideally be done in a function that can't fail or if it
  fails the failure must be non-fatal.

  For time namespaces the relevant functions that fell into this
  category were timens_set_vvar_page() and vdso_join_timens(). The
  latter could still fail although it didn't need to. This function is
  only implemented for vdso_join_timens() in current mainline. As
  discussed on-list (cf. [1]), in order to make setns() support time
  namespaces when attaching to multiple namespaces at once properly we
  changed vdso_join_timens() to always succeed. So vdso_join_timens()
  replaces the mmap_write_lock_killable() with mmap_read_lock().

  Please note that arm is about to grow vdso support for time namespaces
  (possibly this merge window). We've synced on this change and arm64
  also uses mmap_read_lock(), i.e. makes vdso_join_timens() a function
  that can't fail. Once the changes here and the arm64 changes have
  landed, vdso_join_timens() should be turned into a void function so
  it's obvious to callers and implementers on other architectures that
  the expectation is that it can't fail.

  We didn't do this right away because it would've introduced
  unnecessary merge conflicts between the two trees for no major gain.

  As always, tests included"

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200611110221.pgd3r5qkjrjmfqa2@wittgenstein

* tag 'threads-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
  tests: add CLONE_NEWTIME setns tests
  nsproxy: support CLONE_NEWTIME with setns()
  timens: add timens_commit() helper
  timens: make vdso_join_timens() always succeed

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/time_namespace.h b/include/linux/time_namespace.h
index 824d54e057eb..5b6031385db0 100644
--- a/include/linux/time_namespace.h
+++ b/include/linux/time_namespace.h
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ extern struct time_namespace init_time_ns;
 #ifdef CONFIG_TIME_NS
 extern int vdso_join_timens(struct task_struct *task,
 			    struct time_namespace *ns);
+extern void timens_commit(struct task_struct *tsk, struct time_namespace *ns);
 
 static inline struct time_namespace *get_time_ns(struct time_namespace *ns)
 {
@@ -96,6 +97,11 @@ static inline int vdso_join_timens(struct task_struct *task,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static inline void timens_commit(struct task_struct *tsk,
+				 struct time_namespace *ns)
+{
+}
+
 static inline struct time_namespace *get_time_ns(struct time_namespace *ns)
 {
 	return NULL;