From: Filip Schauer <f.schauer@proxmox.com>
To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: [PATCH container v2 4/7] namespaces: add helper to create user namespace from idmap
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:10:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260330141021.151921-5-f.schauer@proxmox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260330141021.151921-1-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 0859bee..c50afa6 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-30 14:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-30 14:10 [PATCH container/manager v2 0/7] implement per-mountpoint uid/gid mapping Filip Schauer
2026-03-30 14:10 ` [PATCH container v2 1/7] namespaces: relax prototype of run_in_userns Filip Schauer
2026-03-30 14:10 ` [PATCH container v2 2/7] namespaces: refactor run_in_userns Filip Schauer
2026-03-30 14:10 ` [PATCH container v2 3/7] d/control: update versioned dependency for libpve-common-perl Filip Schauer
2026-03-30 14:10 ` Filip Schauer [this message]
2026-03-30 14:10 ` [PATCH container v2 5/7] implement per-mountpoint uid/gid mapping Filip Schauer
2026-03-30 14:10 ` [PATCH manager v2 6/7] ui: lxc/MPEdit: remove duplicate "mp" assignment Filip Schauer
2026-03-30 14:10 ` [PATCH manager v2 7/7] ui: lxc/MPEdit: add "idmap" option Filip Schauer
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