lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2021]   [Oct]   [20]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
Patch in this message
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: Retrieving the network namespace of a socket
On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 04:34:18PM +0000, Sargun Dhillon wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 05:03:56PM +0300, Sergey Ryazanov wrote:
> > Hello Sargun,
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 12:57 PM Sargun Dhillon <sargun@sargun.me> wrote:
> > > I'm working on a problem where I need to determine which network namespace a
> > > given socket is in. I can currently bruteforce this by using INET_DIAG, and
> > > enumerating namespaces and working backwards.
> >
> > Namespace is not a per-socket, but a per-process attribute. So each
> > socket of a process belongs to the same namespace.
> >
> > Could you elaborate what kind of problem you are trying to solve?
> > Maybe there is a more simple solution. for it.
> >
> > --
> > Sergey
>
> That's not entirely true. See the folowing code:
>
> int main() {
> int fd1, fd2;
> fd1 = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
> assert(fd1 >= 0);
> assert(unshare(CLONE_NEWNET) == 0);
> fd2 = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
> assert(fd2 >= 0);
> }
>
> fd1 and fd2 have different sock_net.
>
> The context for this is:
> https://linuxplumbersconf.org/event/11/contributions/932/
>
> We need to figure out, for a given socket, if it has reachability to a given IP.

So, I was lazy / misread documentation. It turns out SIOCGSKNS does exactly
what I need.

Nonetheless, it's a little weird and awkward that it is exists. I was wondering
if this functionality made sense as part of kcmp. I wrote up a quick patch
to see if anyone was interested:

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/kcmp.h b/include/uapi/linux/kcmp.h
index ef1305010925..d6b9c3923d20 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/kcmp.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/kcmp.h
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ enum kcmp_type {
KCMP_IO,
KCMP_SYSVSEM,
KCMP_EPOLL_TFD,
+ KCMP_NETNS,

KCMP_TYPES,
};
diff --git a/kernel/kcmp.c b/kernel/kcmp.c
index 5353edfad8e1..8fadae4b588f 100644
--- a/kernel/kcmp.c
+++ b/kernel/kcmp.c
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
#include <linux/file.h>

#include <asm/unistd.h>
+#include <net/net_namespace.h>
+#include <net/sock.h>

/*
* We don't expose the real in-memory order of objects for security reasons.
@@ -132,6 +134,58 @@ static int kcmp_epoll_target(struct task_struct *task1,
}
#endif

+#ifdef CONFIG_NET
+static int __kcmp_netns_target(struct task_struct *task1,
+ struct task_struct *task2,
+ struct file *filp1,
+ struct file *filp2)
+{
+ struct socket *sock1, *sock2;
+ struct net *net1, *net2;
+
+ sock1 = sock_from_file(filp1);
+ sock2 = sock_from_file(filp1);
+ if (!sock1 || !sock2)
+ return -ENOTSOCK;
+
+ net1 = sock_net(sock1->sk);
+ net2 = sock_net(sock2->sk);
+
+ return kcmp_ptr(net1, net2, KCMP_NETNS);
+}
+
+static int kcmp_netns_target(struct task_struct *task1,
+ struct task_struct *task2,
+ unsigned long idx1,
+ unsigned long idx2)
+{
+ struct file *filp1, *filp2;
+
+ int ret = -EBADF;
+
+ filp1 = fget_task(task1, idx1);
+ if (filp1) {
+ filp2 = fget_task(task2, idx2);
+ if (filp2) {
+ ret = __kcmp_netns_target(task1, task2, filp1, filp2);
+ fput(filp2);
+ }
+
+ fput(filp1);
+ }
+
+ return ret;
+}
+#else
+static int kcmp_netns_target(struct task_struct *task1,
+ struct task_struct *task2,
+ unsigned long idx1,
+ unsigned long idx2)
+{
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+}
+#endif
+
SYSCALL_DEFINE5(kcmp, pid_t, pid1, pid_t, pid2, int, type,
unsigned long, idx1, unsigned long, idx2)
{
@@ -206,6 +260,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(kcmp, pid_t, pid1, pid_t, pid2, int, type,
case KCMP_EPOLL_TFD:
ret = kcmp_epoll_target(task1, task2, idx1, (void *)idx2);
break;
+ case KCMP_NETNS:
+ ret = kcmp_netns_target(task1, task2, idx1, idx2);
+ break;
default:
ret = -EINVAL;
break;
\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2021-10-20 21:25    [W:0.088 / U:0.664 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site