libpod: support for cgroup namespace

allow a container to run in a new cgroup namespace.

When running in a new cgroup namespace, the current cgroup appears to
be the root, so that there is no way for the container to access
cgroups outside of its own subtree.

By default it uses --cgroup=host to keep the previous behavior.

To create a new namespace, --cgroup=private must be provided.

Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 57 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pkg/namespaces/namespaces.go b/pkg/namespaces/namespaces.go
index ec9276344..7ed95bd0f 100644
--- a/pkg/namespaces/namespaces.go
+++ b/pkg/namespaces/namespaces.go
@@ -4,6 +4,63 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 )
 
+// CgroupMode represents cgroup mode in the container.
+type CgroupMode string
+
+// IsHost indicates whether the container uses the host's cgroup.
+func (n CgroupMode) IsHost() bool {
+	return n == "host"
+}
+
+// IsNS indicates a cgroup namespace passed in by path (ns:<path>)
+func (n CgroupMode) IsNS() bool {
+	return strings.HasPrefix(string(n), "ns:")
+}
+
+// NS gets the path associated with a ns:<path> cgroup ns
+func (n CgroupMode) NS() string {
+	parts := strings.SplitN(string(n), ":", 2)
+	if len(parts) > 1 {
+		return parts[1]
+	}
+	return ""
+}
+
+// IsContainer indicates whether the container uses a new cgroup namespace.
+func (n CgroupMode) IsContainer() bool {
+	parts := strings.SplitN(string(n), ":", 2)
+	return len(parts) > 1 && parts[0] == "container"
+}
+
+// Container returns the name of the container whose cgroup namespace is going to be used.
+func (n CgroupMode) Container() string {
+	parts := strings.SplitN(string(n), ":", 2)
+	if len(parts) > 1 {
+		return parts[1]
+	}
+	return ""
+}
+
+// IsPrivate indicates whether the container uses the a private cgroup.
+func (n CgroupMode) IsPrivate() bool {
+	return n == "private"
+}
+
+// Valid indicates whether the Cgroup namespace is valid.
+func (n CgroupMode) Valid() bool {
+	parts := strings.Split(string(n), ":")
+	switch mode := parts[0]; mode {
+	case "", "host", "private", "ns":
+	case "container":
+		if len(parts) != 2 || parts[1] == "" {
+			return false
+		}
+	default:
+		return false
+	}
+	return true
+}
+
 // UsernsMode represents userns mode in the container.
 type UsernsMode string