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SubjectRe: [PATCH v5 1/2] move_mount: allow to add a mount into an existing group
On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 01:07:13PM +0300, Pavel Tikhomirov wrote:
> Previously a sharing group (shared and master ids pair) can be only
> inherited when mount is created via bindmount. This patch adds an
> ability to add an existing private mount into an existing sharing group.
>
> With this functionality one can first create the desired mount tree from
> only private mounts (without the need to care about undesired mount
> propagation or mount creation order implied by sharing group
> dependencies), and next then setup any desired mount sharing between
> those mounts in tree as needed.
>
> This allows CRIU to restore any set of mount namespaces, mount trees and
> sharing group trees for a container.
>
> We have many issues with restoring mounts in CRIU related to sharing
> groups and propagation:
> - reverse sharing groups vs mount tree order requires complex mounts
> reordering which mostly implies also using some temporary mounts
> (please see https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/3/23/569 for more info)
>
> - mount() syscall creates tons of mounts due to propagation
> - mount re-parenting due to propagation
> - "Mount Trap" due to propagation
> - "Non Uniform" propagation, meaning that with different tricks with
> mount order and temporary children-"lock" mounts one can create mount
> trees which can't be restored without those tricks
> (see https://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/event/7/contributions/640/)
>
> With this new functionality we can resolve all the problems with
> propagation at once.
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210715100714.120228-1-ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com
> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
> Cc: Mattias Nissler <mnissler@chromium.org>
> Cc: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
> Cc: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>
> ---

Looks good,
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>

I also took a look at mount-v2 for CRIU you linked below. Looks like
clean approach.
I'll compile and run the selftests now.

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