linux/include
Bobby Eshleman 102eab95f0 vsock: lock down child_ns_mode as write-once
Two administrator processes may race when setting child_ns_mode as one
process sets child_ns_mode to "local" and then creates a namespace, but
another process changes child_ns_mode to "global" between the write and
the namespace creation. The first process ends up with a namespace in
"global" mode instead of "local". While this can be detected after the
fact by reading ns_mode and retrying, it is fragile and error-prone.

Make child_ns_mode write-once so that a namespace manager can set it
once and be sure it won't change. Writing a different value after the
first write returns -EBUSY. This applies to all namespaces, including
init_net, where an init process can write "local" to lock all future
namespaces into local mode.

Fixes: eafb64f40c ("vsock: add netns to vsock core")
Suggested-by: Daan De Meyer <daan.j.demeyer@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Co-developed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Bobby Eshleman <bobbyeshleman@meta.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260223-vsock-ns-write-once-v3-2-c0cde6959923@meta.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2026-02-26 11:10:03 +01:00
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