Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Dmitry Safonov <> | Subject | [PATCH] kernel/time: Add max_time_namespaces ucount | Date | Mon, 6 Apr 2020 18:13:42 +0100 |
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Introduce missing time namespaces limit per-userns. Michael noticed that userns limit for number of time namespaces is missing.
Furthermore, time namespace introduced UCOUNT_TIME_NAMESPACES, but didn't introduce an array member in user_table[]. It would make array's initialisation OOB write, but by luck the user_table array has an excessive empty member (all accesses to the array are limited with UCOUNT_COUNTS - so it silently reuses the last free member.
Fixes user-visible regression: max_inotify_instances by reason of the missing UCOUNT_ENTRY() has limited max number of namespaces instead of the number of inotify instances.
Fixes: 769071ac9f20 ("ns: Introduce Time Namespace") Cc: Adrian Reber <adrian@lisas.de> Cc: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> Cc: Containers <containers@lists.linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org # v5.6+ Reported-by: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com> --- Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/user.rst | 6 ++++++ kernel/ucount.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/user.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/user.rst index 650eaa03f15e..c45824589339 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/user.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/user.rst @@ -65,6 +65,12 @@ max_pid_namespaces The maximum number of pid namespaces that any user in the current user namespace may create. +max_time_namespaces +=================== + + The maximum number of time namespaces that any user in the current + user namespace may create. + max_user_namespaces =================== diff --git a/kernel/ucount.c b/kernel/ucount.c index a53cc2b4179c..29c60eb4ec9b 100644 --- a/kernel/ucount.c +++ b/kernel/ucount.c @@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ static struct ctl_table user_table[] = { UCOUNT_ENTRY("max_net_namespaces"), UCOUNT_ENTRY("max_mnt_namespaces"), UCOUNT_ENTRY("max_cgroup_namespaces"), + UCOUNT_ENTRY("max_time_namespaces"), #ifdef CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER UCOUNT_ENTRY("max_inotify_instances"), UCOUNT_ENTRY("max_inotify_watches"), -- 2.26.0
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