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-rw-r--r--support/Makefile1
-rw-r--r--support/namespace.h5
-rw-r--r--support/support_enter_mount_namespace.c45
4 files changed, 58 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index c58c58c..b244b32 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
2017-11-18 Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
+ * support/namespace.h (support_enter_mount_namespace): Declare.
+ * support/support_enter_mount_namespace.c: New file.
+ * support/Makefile (libsupport-routines): Add
+ support_enter_mount_namespace.
+
+2017-11-18 Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
+
* support/temp_file.c (support_create_temp_directory): Use
test_dir and do not rely on the presence of the XXXXXX suffix.
* support/temp_file.h (support_create_temp_directory): Update
diff --git a/support/Makefile b/support/Makefile
index f7a878b..384fecb 100644
--- a/support/Makefile
+++ b/support/Makefile
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ libsupport-routines = \
support_capture_subprocess \
support_capture_subprocess_check \
support_chroot \
+ support_enter_mount_namespace \
support_enter_network_namespace \
support_format_address_family \
support_format_addrinfo \
diff --git a/support/namespace.h b/support/namespace.h
index 9eddb1a..b5e2d14 100644
--- a/support/namespace.h
+++ b/support/namespace.h
@@ -51,6 +51,11 @@ bool support_can_chroot (void);
has sufficient privileges. */
bool support_enter_network_namespace (void);
+/* Enter a mount namespace and mark / as private (not shared). If
+ this function returns true, mount operations in this process will
+ not affect the host system afterwards. */
+bool support_enter_mount_namespace (void);
+
/* Return true if support_enter_network_namespace managed to enter a
UTS namespace. */
bool support_in_uts_namespace (void);
diff --git a/support/support_enter_mount_namespace.c b/support/support_enter_mount_namespace.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6140692
--- /dev/null
+++ b/support/support_enter_mount_namespace.c
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+/* Enter a mount namespace.
+ Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ This file is part of the GNU C Library.
+
+ The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+ version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+ The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+ Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
+ <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
+
+#include <support/namespace.h>
+
+#include <sched.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <sys/mount.h>
+
+bool
+support_enter_mount_namespace (void)
+{
+#ifdef CLONE_NEWNS
+ if (unshare (CLONE_NEWNS) == 0)
+ {
+ /* On some systems, / is marked as MS_SHARED, which means that
+ mounts within the namespace leak to the rest of the system,
+ which is not what we want. */
+ if (mount ("none", "/", NULL, MS_REC | MS_PRIVATE, NULL) != 0)
+ {
+ printf ("warning: making the mount namespace private failed: %m\n");
+ return false;
+ }
+ return true;
+ }
+ else
+ printf ("warning: unshare (CLONE_NEWNS) failed: %m\n");
+#endif /* CLONE_NEWNS */
+ return false;
+}