4 (Taken almost verbatim from Eric Biederman's netns tagging patch
7 The problem. Network devices show up in sysfs and with the network
8 namespace active multiple devices with the same name can show up in
9 the same directory, ouch!
11 To avoid that problem and allow existing applications in network
12 namespaces to see the same interface that is currently presented in
13 sysfs, sysfs now has tagging directory support.
15 By using the network namespace pointers as tags to separate out the
16 the sysfs directory entries we ensure that we don't have conflicts
17 in the directories and applications only see a limited set of
20 Each sysfs directory entry may be tagged with zero or one
21 namespaces. A sysfs_dirent is augmented with a void *s_ns. If a
22 directory entry is tagged, then sysfs_dirent->s_flags will have a
23 flag between KOBJ_NS_TYPE_NONE and KOBJ_NS_TYPES, and s_ns will
24 point to the namespace to which it belongs.
26 Each sysfs superblock's sysfs_super_info contains an array void
27 *ns[KOBJ_NS_TYPES]. When a a task in a tagging namespace
28 kobj_nstype first mounts sysfs, a new superblock is created. It
29 will be differentiated from other sysfs mounts by having its
30 s_fs_info->ns[kobj_nstype] set to the new namespace. Note that
31 through bind mounting and mounts propagation, a task can easily view
32 the contents of other namespaces' sysfs mounts. Therefore, when a
33 namespace exits, it will call kobj_ns_exit() to invalidate any
34 sysfs_dirent->s_ns pointers pointing to it.
36 Users of this interface:
37 - define a type in the kobj_ns_type enumeration.
38 - call kobj_ns_type_register() with its kobj_ns_type_operations which has
39 - current_ns() which returns current's namespace
40 - netlink_ns() which returns a socket's namespace
41 - initial_ns() which returns the initial namesapce
42 - call kobj_ns_exit() when an individual tag is no longer valid