netdev - Re: RFC: netfilter: nf_conntrack: add support for "conntrack zones"

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Message-ID: <20100224013938.GA1142@hallyn.com>
Date:	Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:39:38 -0600
From:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	Matt Helsley <matthltc@...ibm.com>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	Netfilter Development Mailinglist 
	<netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>,
	Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: netfilter: nf_conntrack: add support for "conntrack zones"

Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@...ssion.com):
> Matt Helsley <matthltc@...ibm.com> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:00:55PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >> jamal <hadi@...erus.ca> writes:
> >> 
> >> > Added Daniel to the discussion..
> >> >
> >> > On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 06:07 -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >> >> jamal <hadi@...erus.ca> writes:
> >> >
> >> >> > Does the point after sys_setns(fd) allow me to do io inside
> >> >> > ns <name>? Can i do open() and get a fd from ns <name>?
> >> >> 
> >> >> Yes.  My intention is that current->nsproxy->net_ns be changed.
> >> >> We can already change it in unshare so this is feasible.
> >> >
> >> > I like it if it makes it as easy as it sounds;-> With lxc,
> >> > i essentially have to create a proxy process inside the
> >> > namespace that i use unix domain to open fds inside the ns.
> >> > Do i still need that?
> >> 
> >> That point of the mount to hold a persistent reference to the
> >> namespace without using a process.
> >
> > I think technicaly it's still held using processes, only now it's
> > much more indirect:
> >
> > netns <- mount <- mount namespace(s) <- process(es)
> 
> True. The practical difference is that it doesn't require a dedicated
> process which is a big improvement operationally.
> 
> > Using a mount requires keeping names for the namespaces themselves
> > in the kernel which is a problem we've largely avoided so far.
> > The nscgroup is an example of the messes that creates, I think. And it
> > further complicates c/r -- we'd need to checkpoint and recreate the
> > names of the namespaces too. So we'll need a namespace for the names of
> > the namespaces to make restart reliable won't we? Makes my head spin...
> 
> This is strictly different.  It may require a bit of extra support from
> checkpoint/restart because it introduces some more user visible objects
> but the names themselves are nothing special.  The name that userspace
> sees and deals with is the name of the mount point.  No new namespaces
> are required.

Shouldn't be a big deal - assuming the mount is of a special type
for a network ns, we just record the objref for the checkpointed
network ns.  We don't need a namespace for the namespaces - we just
need unique names for the checkpoint image (the objref, which is
unique per netns).

Guess it really is about time that i work on some clean patches
for checkpoint/restart of mounts namespaces and mounts.

-serge
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