tree 1db07e198f4c0a86bca7160f9a6a3255f4b4f4a9
parent 3f391c79b0686ce183668c6e2b7d02f3e716766c
author Rob Landley <rlandley@parallels.com> 1295732645 -0600
committer Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> 1295843331 +0000

Make CIFS mount work in a container.

Teach cifs about network namespaces, so mounting uses adresses/routing
visible from the container rather than from init context.

A container is a chroot on steroids that changes more than just the root
filesystem the new processes see.  One thing containers can isolate is
"network namespaces", meaning each container can have its own set of
ethernet interfaces, each with its own own IP address and routing to the
outside world.  And if you open a socket in _userspace_ from processes
within such a container, this works fine.

But sockets opened from within the kernel still use a single global
networking context in a lot of places, meaning the new socket's address
and routing are correct for PID 1 on the host, but are _not_ what
userspace processes in the container get to use.

So when you mount a network filesystem from within in a container, the
mount code in the CIFS driver uses the host's networking context and not
the container's networking context, so it gets the wrong address, uses
the wrong routing, and may even try to go out an interface that the
container can't even access...  Bad stuff.

This patch copies the mount process's network context into the CIFS
structure that stores the rest of the server information for that mount
point, and changes the socket open code to use the saved network context
instead of the global network context.  I.E. "when you attempt to use
these addresses, do so relative to THIS set of network interfaces and
routing rules, not the old global context from back before we supported
containers".

The big long HOWTO sets up a test environment on the assumption you've
never used ocntainers before.  It basically says:

1) configure and build a new kernel that has container support
2) build a new root filesystem that includes the userspace container
control package (LXC)
3) package/run them under KVM (so you don't have to mess up your host
system in order to play with containers).
4) set up some containers under the KVM system
5) set up contradictory routing in the KVM system and the container so
that the host and the container see different things for the same address
6) try to mount a CIFS share from both contexts so you can both force it
to work and force it to fail.

For a long drawn out test reproduction sequence, see:

  http://landley.livejournal.com/47024.html
  http://landley.livejournal.com/47205.html
  http://landley.livejournal.com/47476.html

Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rlandley@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>