Quoting Richard Weinberger (rich...@nod.at):
> Am 05.11.2014 um 11:41 schrieb Chen Hanxiao:
> > We lack of pid hierarchy information, and this will lead to:
> > a) we don't know pids' relationship, who is whose child:
> > /proc/PID/ns/pid only tell us whether two pids live in different ns
> > b) bring trouble to nested lxc container check/restore/migration
> > c) bring trouble to pid translation between containers;
> >
> > This patch will show the hierarchy of pid namespace
> > by pidns_hierarchy like:
> >
> > [root@localhost ~]#cat /proc/pidns_hierarchy
> > 18060 18102 1534
> > 18060 18102 1600
> > 1550
>
> Hmm, what about printing the pid hierarchy in the same way as
> /proc/self/mountinfo
> does with mount namespaces?
> Your current approach is not bad but we should really try to be consistent
> with existing
> sources of information.
Good point. How would you structure it to make it look mor elike mountinfo?
Adding the pidns inode number (in place of a mount sequence number) might be
useful, but it sounds like you have a more concrete idea?
> > +config PROC_PID_HIERARCHY
> > + bool "Enable /proc/pidns_hierarchy support" if EXPERT
> > + depends on PROC_FS
> > + help
> > + Show pid namespace hierarchy information
>
> Why does this depend on EXPERT?
> Every Linux distro will enable this option.
Agreed here.
> > +static int proc_pidns_list_refresh(struct pid_namespace *curr_ns,
> > + struct list_head *pidns_pid_list,
> > + struct list_head *pidns_pid_tree)
> > +{
> > + struct pid *pid;
> > + int new_nr, nr = 0;
> > + int rc;
> > +
> > + /* collect pids in current namespace */
> > + while (nr < PID_MAX_LIMIT) {
> > + rcu_read_lock();
> > + pid = find_ge_pid(nr, curr_ns);
> > + if (pid) {
> > + new_nr = pid_vnr(pid);
> > + if (!is_child_reaper(pid)) {
> > + nr = new_nr + 1;
> > + rcu_read_unlock();
> > + continue;
> > + }
> > + get_pid(pid);
> > + rcu_read_unlock();
> > + rc = pidns_list_add(pid, pidns_pid_list);
>
> This function allocates memory per PID. If we have lots of PIDs, how does
> this scale?
> I'd go so far and say this can be a DoS'able issue if the pidns_hierarchy
> file is opened multiple times...
It's not per pid, but per init-pid. For non-reaper pids he bails and continue
through the loop a few lines above. This still may be DOS-able if users don't
have kmem restrictions to prevent a ton of pid namespaces, but then the
namespaces themselves will take a lot more memory than the representation here.
-serge
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