nsfs: add ioctl to get a parent namespace
Pid and user namepaces are hierarchical. There is no way to discover
parent-child relationships.
In a future we will use this interface to dump and restore nested
namespaces.
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
diff --git a/fs/nsfs.c b/fs/nsfs.c
index 3887da4..fb7b397 100644
--- a/fs/nsfs.c
+++ b/fs/nsfs.c
@@ -171,6 +171,10 @@
switch (ioctl) {
case NS_GET_USERNS:
return open_related_ns(ns, ns_get_owner);
+ case NS_GET_PARENT:
+ if (!ns->ops->get_parent)
+ return -EINVAL;
+ return open_related_ns(ns, ns->ops->get_parent);
default:
return -ENOTTY;
}