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Pull namespace updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains namespace updates. This time specifically for nsfs:
- Userspace heavily relies on the root inode numbers for namespaces
to identify the initial namespaces. That's already a hard
dependency. So we cannot change that anymore. Move the initial
inode numbers to a public header and align the only two namespaces
that currently don't do that with all the other namespaces.
- The root inode of /proc having a fixed inode number has been part
of the core kernel ABI since its inception, and recently some
userspace programs (mainly container runtimes) have started to
explicitly depend on this behaviour.
The main reason this is useful to userspace is that by checking
that a suspect /proc handle has fstype PROC_SUPER_MAGIC and is
PROCFS_ROOT_INO, they can then use openat2() together with
RESOLVE_{NO_{XDEV,MAGICLINK},BENEATH} to ensure that there isn't a
bind-mount that replaces some procfs file with a different one.
This kind of attack has lead to security issues in container
runtimes in the past (such as CVE-2019-19921) and libraries like
libpathrs[1] use this feature of procfs to provide safe procfs
handling functions"
* tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.nsfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
uapi: export PROCFS_ROOT_INO
mntns: use stable inode number for initial mount ns
netns: use stable inode number for initial mount ns
nsfs: move root inode number to uapi
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