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From: Filip Schauer <f.schauer@proxmox.com>
To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: [PATCH container 6/8] namespaces: add helper to create user namespace from idmap
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:04:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260223130706.90972-7-f.schauer@proxmox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260223130706.90972-1-f.schauer@proxmox.com>

Signed-off-by: Filip Schauer <f.schauer@proxmox.com>
---
 src/PVE/LXC/Namespaces.pm | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/PVE/LXC/Namespaces.pm b/src/PVE/LXC/Namespaces.pm
index 477d0ac..7836d06 100644
--- a/src/PVE/LXC/Namespaces.pm
+++ b/src/PVE/LXC/Namespaces.pm
@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@ package PVE::LXC::Namespaces;
 use strict;
 use warnings;
 
-use Fcntl qw(O_WRONLY);
+use Fcntl qw(O_WRONLY O_RDONLY);
 use Socket;
 
-use PVE::Tools qw(CLONE_NEWNS CLONE_NEWUSER);
+use PVE::Tools qw(CLONE_NEWNS CLONE_NEWUSER O_CLOEXEC);
 
 my sub set_id_map($$) {
     my ($pid, $id_map) = @_;
@@ -67,4 +67,34 @@ sub run_in_userns($;$) {
     PVE::Tools::run_fork($child, { afterfork => $parent });
 }
 
+# Create a new user namespace with the provided idmap applied.
+# Returns a file handle to the namespace.
+sub new_userns($) {
+    my ($id_map) = @_;
+    socketpair(my $sp, my $sc, AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, PF_UNSPEC)
+        or die "socketpair: $!\n";
+    my $userns_fh;
+    my $child = sub {
+        close($sp);
+        PVE::Tools::unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER) or die "unshare(NEWUSER): $!\n";
+        sync_send($sc, "1\n");
+        shutdown($sc, 1);
+        sync_recv($sc, "2\n");
+        close($sc);
+    };
+    my $parent = sub {
+        my ($pid) = @_;
+        close($sc);
+        sync_recv($sp, "1\n");
+        set_id_map($pid, $id_map);
+        sysopen($userns_fh, "/proc/$pid/ns/user", O_RDONLY | O_CLOEXEC)
+            or die "Failed to open user namespace of child: $!\n";
+        sync_send($sp, "2\n");
+        close($sp);
+    };
+    PVE::Tools::run_fork($child, { afterfork => $parent });
+
+    return $userns_fh;
+}
+
 1;
-- 
2.47.3





  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-02-23 13:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-02-23 13:04 [PATCH common/container/manager 0/8] implement per-mountpoint uid/gid mapping Filip Schauer
2026-02-23 13:04 ` [PATCH common 1/8] tools: export O_CLOEXEC constant Filip Schauer
2026-02-23 13:04 ` [PATCH common 2/8] syscall: add missing mount attribute constants Filip Schauer
2026-02-23 13:04 ` [PATCH common 3/8] tools: add mount_setattr syscall Filip Schauer
2026-02-23 13:04 ` [PATCH container 4/8] namespaces: relax prototype of run_in_userns Filip Schauer
2026-02-23 13:04 ` [PATCH container 5/8] namespaces: refactor run_in_userns Filip Schauer
2026-02-23 13:04 ` Filip Schauer [this message]
2026-02-23 13:04 ` [PATCH container 7/8] implement per-mountpoint uid/gid mapping Filip Schauer
2026-02-23 13:04 ` [PATCH manager 8/8] ui: lxc/MPEdit: add "idmap" option Filip Schauer

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