1f08c3bdfSopenharmony_ciLTP namespaces helper tools
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5f08c3bdfSopenharmony_ci1. Introduction
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8f08c3bdfSopenharmony_ciLTP provides helper tools for creating and working with namespaces. These are
9f08c3bdfSopenharmony_cilocated in ltp/testcases/kernel/containers/share directory and include:
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11f08c3bdfSopenharmony_ci* tst_ns_create
12f08c3bdfSopenharmony_ci** creates a child process in the new specified namespace(s)
13f08c3bdfSopenharmony_ci** child is then daemonized and is running in the background
14f08c3bdfSopenharmony_ci** PID of the daemonized child process is printed on the stdout
15f08c3bdfSopenharmony_ci** the new namespace(s) is(are) maintained by the daemonized child process
16f08c3bdfSopenharmony_ci** namespace(s) can be removed by killing the daemonized process
17f08c3bdfSopenharmony_ci* tst_ns_exec
18f08c3bdfSopenharmony_ci** enters the namespace(s) of a process specified by a PID
19f08c3bdfSopenharmony_ci** then executes the indicated program inside that namespace(s)
20f08c3bdfSopenharmony_ci* tst_ns_ifmove
21f08c3bdfSopenharmony_ci** moves a network interface to the namespace of a process specified by a PID
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23f08c3bdfSopenharmony_ciPurpose of these helper tools is the ability to execute test cases utilizing
24f08c3bdfSopenharmony_cinamespaces even on older kernels which do not provide tooling (i.e. unshare(1)
25f08c3bdfSopenharmony_cior nsenter(1) from util-linux) required for working with namespaces. The only
26f08c3bdfSopenharmony_cirequirement from kernel side is the support of "setns" syscall.
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28f08c3bdfSopenharmony_ci2. Example usage
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31f08c3bdfSopenharmony_ciThe following code shows how test cases can use the namespaces helper tools:
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33f08c3bdfSopenharmony_ci[source,sh]
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35f08c3bdfSopenharmony_ci# Creates a new network and ipc namespace and stores the PID of the daemonized
36f08c3bdfSopenharmony_ci# process inside that namespace into variable myns
37f08c3bdfSopenharmony_cimyns=$(tst_ns_create net,ipc)
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39f08c3bdfSopenharmony_ciip link add veth0 type veth peer name veth1
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41f08c3bdfSopenharmony_ci# Executes command 'ip a' inside the namespace specified by PID in myns variable
42f08c3bdfSopenharmony_citst_ns_exec $myns net,ipc ip a
43f08c3bdfSopenharmony_ci1: lo: <LOOPBACK> mtu 65536 qdisc noop state DOWN
44f08c3bdfSopenharmony_ci    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
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46f08c3bdfSopenharmony_ci# Moves interface veth1 into the namespace specified by PID in myns variable
47f08c3bdfSopenharmony_citst_ns_ifmove veth1 $myns
48f08c3bdfSopenharmony_citst_ns_exec $myns net,ipc ip a
49f08c3bdfSopenharmony_ci1: lo: <LOOPBACK> mtu 65536 qdisc noop state DOWN
50f08c3bdfSopenharmony_ci    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
51f08c3bdfSopenharmony_ci6: veth1: <BROADCAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN qlen 1000
52f08c3bdfSopenharmony_ci    link/ether 6a:0a:45:ed:6e:d0 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
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54f08c3bdfSopenharmony_ci# cleanup
55f08c3bdfSopenharmony_ciip link del veth0
56f08c3bdfSopenharmony_ci# By killing the daemonized process we also delete the namespace
57f08c3bdfSopenharmony_cikill -9 $myns
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