ns: Add a common refcount into ns_common

Currently every namespace type has its own lifetime counter which is stored
in the specific namespace struct. The lifetime counters are used
identically for all namespaces types. Namespaces may of course have
additional unrelated counters and these are not altered.

This introduces a common lifetime counter into struct ns_common. The
ns_common struct encompasses information that all namespaces share. That
should include the lifetime counter since its common for all of them.

It also allows us to unify the type of the counters across all namespaces.
Most of them use refcount_t but one uses atomic_t and at least one uses
kref. Especially the last one doesn't make much sense since it's just a
wrapper around refcount_t since 2016 and actually complicates cleanup
operations by having to use container_of() to cast the correct namespace
struct out of struct ns_common.

Having the lifetime counter for the namespaces in one place reduces
maintenance cost. Not just because after switching all namespaces over we
will have removed more code than we added but also because the logic is
more easily understandable and we indicate to the user that the basic
lifetime requirements for all namespaces are currently identical.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
[christian.brauner@ubuntu.com: rewrite commit & split into two patches]
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/ns_common.h b/include/linux/ns_common.h
index 5fbc4000358f..0f1d024bd958 100644
--- a/include/linux/ns_common.h
+++ b/include/linux/ns_common.h
@@ -2,12 +2,15 @@
 #ifndef _LINUX_NS_COMMON_H
 #define _LINUX_NS_COMMON_H
 
+#include <linux/refcount.h>
+
 struct proc_ns_operations;
 
 struct ns_common {
 	atomic_long_t stashed;
 	const struct proc_ns_operations *ops;
 	unsigned int inum;
+	refcount_t count;
 };
 
 #endif