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Linus Torvalds 415d34b92c namespace-6.19-rc1
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Merge tag 'namespace-6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

Pull namespace updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains substantial namespace infrastructure changes including a new
  system call, active reference counting, and extensive header cleanups.
  The branch depends on the shared kbuild branch for -fms-extensions support.

  Features:

   - listns() system call

     Add a new listns() system call that allows userspace to iterate
     through namespaces in the system. This provides a programmatic
     interface to discover and inspect namespaces, addressing
     longstanding limitations:

     Currently, there is no direct way for userspace to enumerate
     namespaces. Applications must resort to scanning /proc/*/ns/ across
     all processes, which is:
      - Inefficient - requires iterating over all processes
      - Incomplete - misses namespaces not attached to any running
        process but kept alive by file descriptors, bind mounts, or
        parent references
      - Permission-heavy - requires access to /proc for many processes
      - No ordering or ownership information
      - No filtering per namespace type

     The listns() system call solves these problems:

       ssize_t listns(const struct ns_id_req *req, u64 *ns_ids,
                      size_t nr_ns_ids, unsigned int flags);

       struct ns_id_req {
             __u32 size;
             __u32 spare;
             __u64 ns_id;
             struct /* listns */ {
                     __u32 ns_type;
                     __u32 spare2;
                     __u64 user_ns_id;
             };
       };

     Features include:
      - Pagination support for large namespace sets
      - Filtering by namespace type (MNT_NS, NET_NS, USER_NS, etc.)
      - Filtering by owning user namespace
      - Permission checks respecting namespace isolation

   - Active Reference Counting

     Introduce an active reference count that tracks namespace
     visibility to userspace. A namespace is visible in the following
     cases:
      - The namespace is in use by a task
      - The namespace is persisted through a VFS object (namespace file
        descriptor or bind-mount)
      - The namespace is a hierarchical type and is the parent of child
        namespaces

     The active reference count does not regulate lifetime (that's still
     done by the normal reference count) - it only regulates visibility
     to namespace file handles and listns().

     This prevents resurrection of namespaces that are pinned only for
     internal kernel reasons (e.g., user namespaces held by
     file->f_cred, lazy TLB references on idle CPUs, etc.) which should
     not be accessible via (1)-(3).

   - Unified Namespace Tree

     Introduce a unified tree structure for all namespaces with:
      - Fixed IDs assigned to initial namespaces
      - Lookup based solely on inode number
      - Maintained list of owned namespaces per user namespace
      - Simplified rbtree comparison helpers

   Cleanups

    - Header Reorganization:
      - Move namespace types into separate header (ns_common_types.h)
      - Decouple nstree from ns_common header
      - Move nstree types into separate header
      - Switch to new ns_tree_{node,root} structures with helper functions
      - Use guards for ns_tree_lock

   - Initial Namespace Reference Count Optimization
      - Make all reference counts on initial namespaces a nop to avoid
        pointless cacheline ping-pong for namespaces that can never go
        away
      - Drop custom reference count initialization for initial namespaces
      - Add NS_COMMON_INIT() macro and use it for all namespaces
      - pid: rely on common reference count behavior

   - Miscellaneous Cleanups
      - Rename exit_task_namespaces() to exit_nsproxy_namespaces()
      - Rename is_initial_namespace() and make argument const
      - Use boolean to indicate anonymous mount namespace
      - Simplify owner list iteration in nstree
      - nsfs: raise SB_I_NODEV, SB_I_NOEXEC, and DCACHE_DONTCACHE explicitly
      - nsfs: use inode_just_drop()
      - pidfs: raise DCACHE_DONTCACHE explicitly
      - pidfs: simplify PIDFD_GET__NAMESPACE ioctls
      - libfs: allow to specify s_d_flags
      - cgroup: add cgroup namespace to tree after owner is set
      - nsproxy: fix free_nsproxy() and simplify create_new_namespaces()

  Fixes:

   - setns(pidfd, ...) race condition

     Fix a subtle race when using pidfds with setns(). When the target
     task exits after prepare_nsset() but before commit_nsset(), the
     namespace's active reference count might have been dropped. If
     setns() then installs the namespaces, it would bump the active
     reference count from zero without taking the required reference on
     the owner namespace, leading to underflow when later decremented.

     The fix resurrects the ownership chain if necessary - if the caller
     succeeded in grabbing passive references, the setns() should
     succeed even if the target task exits or gets reaped.

   - Return EFAULT on put_user() error instead of success

   - Make sure references are dropped outside of RCU lock (some
     namespaces like mount namespace sleep when putting the last
     reference)

   - Don't skip active reference count initialization for network
     namespace

   - Add asserts for active refcount underflow

   - Add asserts for initial namespace reference counts (both passive
     and active)

   - ipc: enable is_ns_init_id() assertions

   - Fix kernel-doc comments for internal nstree functions

   - Selftests
      - 15 active reference count tests
      - 9 listns() functionality tests
      - 7 listns() permission tests
      - 12 inactive namespace resurrection tests
      - 3 threaded active reference count tests
      - commit_creds() active reference tests
      - Pagination and stress tests
      - EFAULT handling test
      - nsid tests fixes"

* tag 'namespace-6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (103 commits)
  pidfs: simplify PIDFD_GET_<type>_NAMESPACE ioctls
  nstree: fix kernel-doc comments for internal functions
  nsproxy: fix free_nsproxy() and simplify create_new_namespaces()
  selftests/namespaces: fix nsid tests
  ns: drop custom reference count initialization for initial namespaces
  pid: rely on common reference count behavior
  ns: add asserts for initial namespace active reference counts
  ns: add asserts for initial namespace reference counts
  ns: make all reference counts on initial namespace a nop
  ipc: enable is_ns_init_id() assertions
  fs: use boolean to indicate anonymous mount namespace
  ns: rename is_initial_namespace()
  ns: make is_initial_namespace() argument const
  nstree: use guards for ns_tree_lock
  nstree: simplify owner list iteration
  nstree: switch to new structures
  nstree: add helper to operate on struct ns_tree_{node,root}
  nstree: move nstree types into separate header
  nstree: decouple from ns_common header
  ns: move namespace types into separate header
  ...
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atomic rust: Introduce atomic API helpers 2025-09-15 09:38:32 +02:00
bash-completion kbuild: add Kbuild bash completion 2025-03-15 21:22:52 +09:00
basic integer-wrap: Force full rebuild when .scl file changes 2025-05-08 09:42:06 -07:00
clang-tools gen_compile_commands.py: remove code for '\#' replacement 2025-03-15 21:16:21 +09:00
coccinelle Patch series in this pull request: 2025-10-02 18:44:54 -07:00
crypto lib/crypto: tests: Add KUnit tests for BLAKE2s 2025-08-29 09:50:19 -07:00
dtc scripts: dt_to_config: fix grammar and a typo in --help text 2025-09-26 15:53:30 -05:00
dummy-tools kbuild: dummy-tools: pretend we understand -fpatchable-function-entry 2023-11-01 23:24:56 +09:00
gcc-plugins gcc-plugins: Remove TODO_verify_il for GCC >= 16 2025-09-23 13:59:39 -07:00
gdb hrtimer: Remove hrtimer_clock_base:: Get_time 2025-09-09 12:27:18 +02:00
gendwarfksyms gendwarfksyms: Skip files with no exports 2025-11-11 20:37:11 +01:00
genksyms genksyms: Fix enum consts from a reference affecting new values 2025-06-07 14:38:07 +09:00
include scripts: import more list macros 2024-10-07 02:12:27 +09:00
ipe scripts: ipe: polgen: remove redundant close and error exit path 2024-11-19 13:57:03 -08:00
kconfig kconfig/nconf: Initialize the default locale at startup 2025-11-01 00:23:22 -04:00
ksymoops
lib docs: kdoc: a few more dump_typedef() tweaks 2025-09-18 10:19:54 -06:00
mod modpost: Initialize builtin_modname to stop SIGSEGVs 2025-09-28 07:54:07 -04:00
package kbuild: install-extmod-build: Fix when given dir outside the build dir 2025-10-25 21:59:20 +01:00
selinux docs: Remove remainders of reiserfs 2025-08-18 10:45:43 -06:00
tracing scripts/tracing: Remove scripts/tracing/draw_functrace.py 2025-03-20 07:02:21 -04:00
.gitignore lib: packing: add pack_fields() and unpack_fields() 2024-12-11 20:13:00 -08:00
Kbuild.include kbuild: add $(objtree)/ prefix to some in-kernel build artifacts 2024-11-27 09:38:27 +09:00
Kconfig.include kbuild: rust: add `CONFIG_RUSTC_LLVM_VERSION` 2024-10-13 22:22:28 +02:00
Lindent
Makefile Kbuild updates for v6.14 2025-01-31 12:07:07 -08:00
Makefile.asm-headers kbuild: fix rebuild of generic syscall headers 2024-07-18 10:01:55 -07:00
Makefile.autofdo AutoFDO: Enable machine function split optimization for AutoFDO 2024-11-27 09:38:27 +09:00
Makefile.btf kbuild, bpf: Enable --btf_features=attributes 2025-04-15 11:17:50 -07:00
Makefile.build kbuild: Let kernel-doc.py use PYTHON3 override 2025-11-08 19:42:22 -07:00
Makefile.clang kbuild: clang: Support building UM with SUBARCH=i386 2025-03-04 09:40:13 -08:00
Makefile.clean kbuild: change working directory to external module directory with M= 2024-11-28 08:10:23 +09:00
Makefile.compiler require gcc-8 and binutils-2.30 2025-05-31 08:16:52 -07:00
Makefile.debug kbuild: rust: use `-Zdebuginfo-compression` 2024-04-02 17:41:22 +02:00
Makefile.defconf kbuild: suppress stdout from merge_config for silent builds 2025-01-10 23:01:21 +09:00
Makefile.dtbinst kbuild: Install dtb files as 0644 in Makefile.dtbinst 2024-06-26 00:18:57 +09:00
Makefile.dtbs scripts/dtc: Update to upstream version v1.7.2-35-g52f07dcca47c 2025-08-11 08:08:51 -05:00
Makefile.extrawarn Kbuild: enable -fms-extensions 2025-10-29 16:23:47 -07:00
Makefile.gcc-plugins stackleak: Split KSTACK_ERASE_CFLAGS from GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS 2025-07-21 21:40:57 -07:00
Makefile.headersinst
Makefile.host kbuild: support building external modules in a separate build directory 2024-11-28 08:11:55 +09:00
Makefile.kasan kasan: fix GCC mem-intrinsic prefix with sw tags 2025-08-27 22:45:43 -07:00
Makefile.kcov - The 2 patch series "zram: support algorithm-specific parameters" from 2025-06-02 16:00:26 -07:00
Makefile.kcsan
Makefile.kmsan
Makefile.kstack_erase kstack_erase: Fix missed export of renamed KSTACK_ERASE_CFLAGS 2025-07-29 17:17:46 -07:00
Makefile.lib Kbuild updates for v6.16 2025-06-07 10:05:35 -07:00
Makefile.modfinal kbuild: re-enable KCSAN for autogenerated *.mod.c intermediaries 2024-11-28 08:11:55 +09:00
Makefile.modinst kbuild: Fix signing issue for external modules 2025-01-18 08:52:09 +09:00
Makefile.modpost modpost: Allow extended modversions without basic MODVERSIONS 2025-01-11 02:36:32 +09:00
Makefile.package kbuild: rpm-pkg: disable kernel-devel package when cross-compiling 2024-10-31 21:40:46 +09:00
Makefile.propeller kbuild: Fix Propeller build option 2024-11-27 09:38:27 +09:00
Makefile.randstruct
Makefile.ubsan ARM: 2025-05-29 08:10:01 -07:00
Makefile.userprogs kbuild: support 'userldlibs' syntax 2023-11-01 23:26:01 +09:00
Makefile.vdsoinst more s390 updates for 6.10 merge window 2024-05-21 12:09:36 -07:00
Makefile.vmlinux kbuild: Strip trailing padding bytes from modules.builtin.modinfo 2025-11-06 09:50:23 -07:00
Makefile.vmlinux_o kbuild: extract modules.builtin.modinfo from vmlinux.unstripped 2025-09-24 09:10:44 -07:00
as-version.sh
asn1_compiler.c
bloat-o-meter scripts/bloat-o-meter: count weak symbol sizes 2023-08-21 13:46:25 -07:00
bootgraph.pl
bpf_doc.py bpf: Finish constification of 1st parameter of bpf_d_path() 2025-10-04 09:05:23 -07:00
build-version kbuild: move init/build-version to scripts/ 2024-07-16 01:08:37 +09:00
cc-can-link.sh
cc-version.sh
check-git
check-sysctl-docs docs: Replace spaces with tabs in check-sysctl-docs 2025-07-23 11:57:05 +02:00
check-uapi.sh check-uapi: Introduce check-uapi.sh 2023-12-29 22:25:20 +09:00
check-variable-fonts.sh docs: scripts/check-variable-fonts.sh: Improve commands for detection 2024-05-02 10:14:52 -06:00
check_extable.sh
checkdeclares.pl
checkincludes.pl
checkkconfigsymbols.py
checkpatch.pl checkpatch: suppress strscpy warnings for userspace tools 2025-09-28 11:36:13 -07:00
checkstack.pl scripts/checkstack.pl: fix no space expression between sp and offset 2023-12-29 12:22:28 -08:00
checksyscalls.sh
checktransupdate.py scripts: add origin commit identification based on specific patterns 2025-07-24 08:41:15 -06:00
checkversion.pl
cleanfile
cleanpatch
coccicheck kbuild: change working directory to external module directory with M= 2024-11-28 08:10:23 +09:00
config kbuild: fix argument parsing in scripts/config 2025-03-15 21:22:42 +09:00
const_structs.checkpatch const_structs.checkpatch: add bin_attribute 2025-06-17 10:44:07 +02:00
decode_stacktrace.sh scripts/decode_stacktrace.sh: fix build ID and PC source parsing 2025-11-09 21:19:45 -08:00
decodecode scripts/decodecode: add support for LoongArch 2023-12-29 12:22:25 -08:00
depmod.sh kbuild: add $(objtree)/ prefix to some in-kernel build artifacts 2024-11-27 09:38:27 +09:00
dev-needs.sh
diffconfig
documentation-file-ref-check scripts/documentation-file-ref-check: don't check perl/python scripts 2025-02-10 11:19:56 -07:00
extract-fwblobs scripts: add script to extract built-in firmware blobs 2025-03-16 22:30:46 -07:00
extract-ikconfig
extract-module-sig.pl
extract-sys-certs.pl
extract-vmlinux extract-vmlinux: Output used decompression method 2025-08-28 15:25:48 -07:00
extract_xc3028.pl
faddr2line Revert "scripts/faddr2line: Check only two symbols when calculating symbol size" 2024-10-17 15:16:04 -07:00
file-size.sh
find-unused-docs.sh scripts/kernel-doc.py: don't create *.pyc files 2025-04-24 10:12:46 -06:00
gen-crc-consts.py riscv/crc: add "template" for Zbc optimized CRC functions 2025-03-10 09:29:08 -07:00
gen-randstruct-seed.sh
gen_packed_field_checks.c lib: packing: add pack_fields() and unpack_fields() 2024-12-11 20:13:00 -08:00
generate_builtin_ranges.awk kbuild: exclude .rodata.(cst|str)* when building ranges 2025-03-15 21:22:52 +09:00
generate_initcall_order.pl
generate_rust_analyzer.py rust: add `pin-init` as a dependency to `bindings` and `uapi` 2025-09-08 13:42:39 +02:00
generate_rust_target.rs rust: support Rust >= 1.91.0 target spec 2025-08-31 23:34:34 +02:00
get_abi.py scripts/get_abi.py: add support for undefined ABIs 2025-02-10 11:19:57 -07:00
get_dvb_firmware
get_feat.pl scripts: get_feat.pl: substitute s390x with s390 2025-03-12 16:25:50 -06:00
get_maintainer.pl get_maintainer: stop reporting subsystem status as maintainer role 2025-03-16 22:30:49 -07:00
gfp-translate scripts: fix gfp-translate after ___GFP_*_BITS conversion to an enum 2024-09-01 17:59:01 -07:00
git-resolve.sh git-resolve: add SPDX and copyright line 2025-04-25 15:54:24 +02:00
git.orderFile scripts: Introduce a default git.orderFile 2023-12-29 22:25:20 +09:00
head-object-list.txt openrisc: place exception table at the head of vmlinux 2024-12-10 12:04:19 +00:00
headerdep.pl
headers_install.sh uapi: wrap compiler_types.h in an ifdef instead of the implicit strip 2025-08-28 13:06:48 +02:00
insert-sys-cert.c
install.sh kbuild: Create INSTALL_PATH directory if it does not exist 2024-07-20 13:34:54 +09:00
integer-wrap-ignore.scl ubsan/overflow: Enable ignorelist parsing and add type filter 2025-03-07 19:58:05 -08:00
jobserver-exec
kallsyms.c kallsyms: Remove KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU 2025-02-18 10:16:04 +01:00
kernel-doc scripts/kernel-doc: switch to use kernel-doc.py 2025-04-09 12:10:34 -06:00
kernel-doc.pl scripts: kernel-doc: fix parsing function-like typedefs (again) 2025-04-09 12:10:34 -06:00
kernel-doc.py docs: kernel-doc: avoid script crash on ancient Python 2025-08-11 10:54:29 -06:00
ld-version.sh kbuild: Make ld-version.sh more robust against version string changes 2024-07-15 03:13:32 +09:00
leaking_addresses.pl leaking_addresses: Provide mechanism to scan binary files 2024-02-29 13:38:03 -08:00
link-vmlinux.sh kbuild: vmlinux.unstripped should always depend on .vmlinux.export.o 2025-09-24 09:10:45 -07:00
macro_checker.py scripts: add macro_checker script to check unused parameters in macros 2024-09-01 20:43:28 -07:00
make_fit.py scripts/make_fit: Print DT name before libfdt errors 2025-03-27 14:03:32 -05:00
makelst
markup_oops.pl
min-tool-version.sh kbuild: Bump minimum version of LLVM for building the kernel to 15.0.0 2025-08-28 16:58:43 -07:00
misc-check scripts/misc-check: update export checks for EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_MODULES() 2025-08-26 12:00:17 -07:00
mkcompile_h
mksysmap modpost: Create modalias for builtin modules 2025-09-24 09:10:45 -07:00
mkuboot.sh
module-common.c kbuild: compile constant module information only once 2024-09-07 17:24:08 +09:00
module.lds.S alloc_tag: remove empty module tag section 2025-07-09 22:42:03 -07:00
modules-check.sh
nsdeps scripts/nsdeps: get 'make nsdeps' working again 2024-12-03 08:22:25 -08:00
objdiff
objdump-func
orc_hash.sh
pahole-version.sh
parse-maintainers.pl
patch-kernel
profile2linkerlist.pl
prune-kernel
recordmcount.c scripts: clean up IA-64 code 2023-12-03 18:51:48 +09:00
recordmcount.h
recordmcount.pl tracing: Remove redundant config HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 2025-07-22 20:15:56 -04:00
relocs_check.sh
remove-stale-files selinux: move genheaders to security/selinux/ 2024-10-03 16:07:51 -04:00
rust_is_available.sh rust: document `bindgen` 0.71.0 regression 2025-01-10 00:17:00 +01:00
rust_is_available_bindgen_0_66.h rust: warn about `bindgen` versions 0.66.0 and 0.66.1 2024-07-10 10:28:52 +02:00
rust_is_available_bindgen_libclang.h
rust_is_available_bindgen_libclang_concat.h rust: warn on bindgen < 0.69.5 and libclang >= 19.1 2024-11-12 21:26:54 +01:00
rust_is_available_test.py rust: warn on bindgen < 0.69.5 and libclang >= 19.1 2024-11-12 21:26:54 +01:00
rustc-llvm-version.sh kbuild: rust: avoid errors with old `rustc`s without LLVM patch version 2024-10-28 00:27:16 +01:00
rustc-version.sh kbuild: rust: add `CONFIG_RUSTC_VERSION` 2024-09-05 22:44:18 +02:00
rustdoc_test_builder.rs rust: use absolute paths in macros referencing core and kernel 2025-05-23 00:12:14 +02:00
rustdoc_test_gen.rs rust: kunit: use `kernel::{fmt,prelude::fmt!}` 2025-09-16 09:26:59 +02:00
setlocalversion setlocalversion: add -e option 2024-11-28 08:11:56 +09:00
show_delta scripts: make python shebangs specific about desired version 2025-03-15 21:19:44 +09:00
sign-file.c sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
sorttable.c scripts/sorttable: Fix endianness handling in build-time mcount sort 2025-04-02 09:51:26 -04:00
spdxcheck-test.sh
spdxcheck.py scripts/spdxcheck: Handle license identifiers in Jinja comments 2025-01-08 15:38:33 +01:00
spdxexclude
spelling.txt scripts/spelling.txt: add notifer||notifier to spelling.txt 2025-08-02 12:01:40 -07:00
sphinx-build-wrapper scripts: sphinx-build-wrapper: get rid of uapi/media Makefile 2025-08-29 15:54:43 -06:00
sphinx-pre-install scripts/sphinx-pre-install: fix Archlinux PDF dependencies 2025-08-21 14:08:53 -06:00
split-man.pl
ssl-common.h sign-file,extract-cert: avoid using deprecated ERR_get_error_line() 2024-09-20 19:49:52 +03:00
stackdelta
stackusage
subarch.include scripts: subarch.include: fix SUBARCH on macOS hosts 2024-09-10 13:56:37 +09:00
syscall.tbl arch: hookup listns() system call 2025-11-03 17:41:18 +01:00
syscallhdr.sh
syscallnr.sh
syscalltbl.sh x86/syscall: Mark exit[_group] syscall handlers __noreturn 2024-06-28 15:23:38 +02:00
tags.sh scripts/tags.sh: allow to use alternative ctags implementation 2025-06-06 05:40:25 +09:00
test_doc_build.py scripts: test_doc_build.py: regroup and rename arguments 2025-06-25 12:22:48 -06:00
tools-support-relr.sh
unifdef.c scripts/unifdef: avoid constexpr keyword 2024-04-23 00:09:41 +09:00
ver_linux ver_linux: Remove checks for reiserfsprogs. 2025-06-09 14:53:16 -06:00
verify_builtin_ranges.awk scripts: add verifier script for builtin module range data 2024-09-20 09:21:52 +09:00
xen-hypercalls.sh
xz_wrap.sh xz: adjust arch-specific options for better kernel compression 2024-09-01 20:43:27 -07:00