[CRIU] [PATCH net-next] unix: add ioctl to open a unix socket file with O_PATH

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Thu Feb 2 18:58:25 PST 2017


From: Andrei Vagin <avagin at openvz.org>
Date: Wed,  1 Feb 2017 11:00:45 -0800

> This ioctl opens a file to which a socket is bound and
> returns a file descriptor. The caller has to have CAP_NET_ADMIN
> in the socket network namespace.
> 
> Currently it is impossible to get a path and a mount point
> for a socket file. socket_diag reports address, device ID and inode
> number for unix sockets. An address can contain a relative path or
> a file may be moved somewhere. And these properties say nothing about
> a mount namespace and a mount point of a socket file.
> 
> With the introduced ioctl, we can get a path by reading
> /proc/self/fd/X and get mnt_id from /proc/self/fdinfo/X.
> 
> In CRIU we are going to use this ioctl to dump and restore unix socket.
> 
> Here is an example how it can be used:
 ...
> Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin at openvz.org>

This looks fine to me, applied, thanks.


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