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    unix: add ioctl to open a unix socket file with O_PATH · ba94f308
    Andrey Vagin authored
    
    
    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:
    
    $ strace -e socket,bind,ioctl ./test /tmp/test_sock
    socket(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0)         = 3
    bind(3, {sa_family=AF_UNIX, sun_path="test_sock"}, 11) = 0
    ioctl(3, SIOCUNIXFILE, 0)           = 4
    ^Z
    
    $ ss -a | grep test_sock
    u_str  LISTEN     0      1      test_sock 17798                 * 0
    
    $ ls -l /proc/760/fd/{3,4}
    lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Feb  1 09:41 3 -> 'socket:[17798]'
    l--------- 1 root root 64 Feb  1 09:41 4 -> /tmp/test_sock
    
    $ cat /proc/760/fdinfo/4
    pos:	0
    flags:	012000000
    mnt_id:	40
    
    $ cat /proc/self/mountinfo | grep "^40\s"
    40 19 0:37 / /tmp rw shared:23 - tmpfs tmpfs rw
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrei Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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