kernfs: pass struct ns_common instead of const void * for namespace tags

kernfs has historically used const void * to pass around namespace tags
used for directory-level namespace filtering. The only current user of
this is sysfs network namespace tagging where struct net pointers are
cast to void *.

Replace all const void * namespace parameters with const struct
ns_common * throughout the kernfs, sysfs, and kobject namespace layers.
This includes the kobj_ns_type_operations callbacks, kobject_namespace(),
and all sysfs/kernfs APIs that accept or return namespace tags.

Passing struct ns_common is needed because various codepaths require
access to the underlying namespace. A struct ns_common can always be
converted back to the concrete namespace type (e.g., struct net) via
container_of() or to_ns_common() in the reverse direction.

This is a preparatory change for switching to ns_id-based directory
iteration to prevent a KASLR pointer leak through the current use of
raw namespace pointers as hash seeds and comparison keys.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
This commit is contained in:
Christian Brauner
2026-04-01 12:15:58 +02:00
parent 07712db808
commit e3b2cf6e5d
30 changed files with 175 additions and 148 deletions

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@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
* and thus @kobj should have a namespace tag associated with it. Returns
* %NULL otherwise.
*/
const void *kobject_namespace(const struct kobject *kobj)
const struct ns_common *kobject_namespace(const struct kobject *kobj)
{
const struct kobj_ns_type_operations *ns_ops = kobj_ns_ops(kobj);
@@ -1083,9 +1083,9 @@ bool kobj_ns_current_may_mount(enum kobj_ns_type type)
return may_mount;
}
void *kobj_ns_grab_current(enum kobj_ns_type type)
struct ns_common *kobj_ns_grab_current(enum kobj_ns_type type)
{
void *ns = NULL;
struct ns_common *ns = NULL;
spin_lock(&kobj_ns_type_lock);
if (kobj_ns_type_is_valid(type) && kobj_ns_ops_tbl[type])
@@ -1096,7 +1096,7 @@ void *kobj_ns_grab_current(enum kobj_ns_type type)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kobj_ns_grab_current);
void kobj_ns_drop(enum kobj_ns_type type, void *ns)
void kobj_ns_drop(enum kobj_ns_type type, struct ns_common *ns)
{
spin_lock(&kobj_ns_type_lock);
if (kobj_ns_type_is_valid(type) &&