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SubjectRe: [PATCH review 3/6] userns: Recommend use of memory control groups.
Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com):
>
> In the help text describing user namespaces recommend use of memory
> control groups. In many cases memory control groups are the only
> mechanism there is to limit how much memory a user who can create
> user namespaces can use.
>
> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>

nit:

> ---
> Documentation/namespaces/resource-control.txt | 10 ++++++++++
> init/Kconfig | 7 +++++++
> 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/namespaces/resource-control.txt
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/namespaces/resource-control.txt b/Documentation/namespaces/resource-control.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..3d8178a
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/namespaces/resource-control.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
> +There are a lot of kinds of objects in the kernel that don't have
> +individual limits or that have limits that are ineffective when a set
> +of processes is allowed to switch user ids. With user namespaces
> +enabled in a kernel for people who don't trust their users or their
> +users programs to play nice this problems becomes more acute.

users' programs

> +
> +Therefore it is recommended that memory control groups be enabled in
> +kernels that enable user namespaces, and it is further recommended
> +that userspace configure memory control groups to limit how much
> +memory users they don't trust to play nice can use.
> diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
> index 7d30240..c8c58bd 100644
> --- a/init/Kconfig
> +++ b/init/Kconfig
> @@ -1035,6 +1035,13 @@ config USER_NS
> help
> This allows containers, i.e. vservers, to use user namespaces
> to provide different user info for different servers.
> +
> + When user namespaces are enabled in the kernel it is
> + recommended that the MEMCG and MEMCG_KMEM options also be
> + enabled and that user-space use the memory control groups to
> + limit the amount of memory a memory unprivileged users can
> + use.
> +
> If unsure, say N.
>
> config PID_NS
> --
> 1.7.5.4


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