linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/5] Move the user namespace under the option

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Message-ID: <4728627E.5010904@openvz.org>
Date:	Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:09:50 +0300
From:	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
CC:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Cedric Le Goater <clg@...ibm.com>,
	Serge Hallyn <serue@...ibm.com>,
	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4/5] Move the user namespace under the option

We already have a CONFIG_USER_NS option. Just tune it a bit
and move the init_user_ns into user.c file to make the kernel 
compile and work without the namespaces support.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>

---

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index b1aa7f1..1ec7009 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -206,15 +206,6 @@ config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
 
 	  Say N if unsure.
 
-config USER_NS
-	bool "User Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)"
-	default n
-	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
-	help
-	  Support user namespaces.  This allows containers, i.e.
-	  vservers, to use user namespaces to provide different
-	  user info for different servers.  If unsure, say N.
-
 config AUDIT
 	bool "Auditing support"
 	depends on NET
@@ -423,6 +414,14 @@ config IPC_NS
 	  In this namespace tasks work with IPC ids which correspond to
 	  different IPC objects in different namespaces
 
+config USER_NS
+	bool "User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+	depends on NAMESPACES && EXPERIMENTAL
+	help
+	  This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
+	  to provide different user info for different servers.
+	  If unsure, say N.
+
 config BLK_DEV_INITRD
 	bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
 	depends on BROKEN || !FRV
diff --git a/kernel/Makefile b/kernel/Makefile
index 8082b2c..4c137b5 100644
--- a/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/kernel/Makefile
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 obj-y     = sched.o fork.o exec_domain.o panic.o printk.o profile.o \
 	    exit.o itimer.o time.o softirq.o resource.o \
-	    sysctl.o capability.o ptrace.o timer.o user.o user_namespace.o \
+	    sysctl.o capability.o ptrace.o timer.o user.o \
 	    signal.o sys.o kmod.o workqueue.o pid.o \
 	    rcupdate.o extable.o params.o posix-timers.o \
 	    kthread.o wait.o kfifo.o sys_ni.o posix-cpu-timers.o mutex.o \
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_AUDIT_TREE) += audit_tree.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_KPROBES) += kprobes.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_KGDB) += kgdb.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_UTS_NS) += utsname.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_USER_NS) += user_namespace.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_SYSFS) += ksysfs.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP) += softlockup.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS) += irq/
diff --git a/kernel/user.c b/kernel/user.c
index 9cb6f64..91933d0 100644
--- a/kernel/user.c
+++ b/kernel/user.c
@@ -17,6 +17,15 @@
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/user_namespace.h>
 
+struct user_namespace init_user_ns = {
+	.kref = {
+		.refcount	= ATOMIC_INIT(2),
+	},
+	.root_user = &root_user,
+};
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(init_user_ns);
+
 /*
  * UID task count cache, to get fast user lookup in "alloc_uid"
  * when changing user ID's (ie setuid() and friends).
@@ -424,6 +433,7 @@ void switch_uid(struct user_struct *new_user)
 	suid_keys(current);
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_USER_NS
 void release_uids(struct user_namespace *ns)
 {
 	int i;
@@ -448,6 +458,7 @@ void release_uids(struct user_namespace *ns)
 
 	free_uid(ns->root_user);
 }
+#endif
 
 static int __init uid_cache_init(void)
 {
diff --git a/kernel/user_namespace.c b/kernel/user_namespace.c
index 7af90fc..4c90062 100644
--- a/kernel/user_namespace.c
+++ b/kernel/user_namespace.c
@@ -10,17 +10,6 @@
 #include <linux/nsproxy.h>
 #include <linux/user_namespace.h>
 
-struct user_namespace init_user_ns = {
-	.kref = {
-		.refcount	= ATOMIC_INIT(2),
-	},
-	.root_user = &root_user,
-};
-
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(init_user_ns);
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_USER_NS
-
 /*
  * Clone a new ns copying an original user ns, setting refcount to 1
  * @old_ns: namespace to clone
@@ -84,5 +73,3 @@ void free_user_ns(struct kref *kref)
 	release_uids(ns);
 	kfree(ns);
 }
-
-#endif /* CONFIG_USER_NS */
-- 
1.5.3.4

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