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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2012-12-28 18:58:39 -0800
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2013-01-26 22:11:41 -0800
commitc61a2810a2161986353705b44d9503e6bb079f4f (patch)
tree1f949f359d0344c2a47c8d0c597815aceb8091c0 /kernel/user_namespace.c
parent923c7538236564c46ee80c253a416705321f13e3 (diff)
userns: Avoid recursion in put_user_ns
When freeing a deeply nested user namespace free_user_ns calls put_user_ns on it's parent which may in turn call free_user_ns again. When -fno-optimize-sibling-calls is passed to gcc one stack frame per user namespace is left on the stack, potentially overflowing the kernel stack. CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER forces -fno-optimize-sibling-calls so we can't count on gcc to optimize this code. Remove struct kref and use a plain atomic_t. Making the code more flexible and easier to comprehend. Make the loop in free_user_ns explict to guarantee that the stack does not overflow with CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER enabled. I have tested this fix with a simple program that uses unshare to create a deeply nested user namespace structure and then calls exit. With 1000 nesteuser namespaces before this change running my test program causes the kernel to die a horrible death. With 10,000,000 nested user namespaces after this change my test program runs to completion and causes no harm. Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Pointed-out-by: Vasily Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/user_namespace.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/user_namespace.c17
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/user_namespace.c b/kernel/user_namespace.c
index 2b042c42fbc4..24f8ec3b64d8 100644
--- a/kernel/user_namespace.c
+++ b/kernel/user_namespace.c
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ int create_user_ns(struct cred *new)
return ret;
}
- kref_init(&ns->kref);
+ atomic_set(&ns->count, 1);
/* Leave the new->user_ns reference with the new user namespace. */
ns->parent = parent_ns;
ns->owner = owner;
@@ -104,15 +104,16 @@ int unshare_userns(unsigned long unshare_flags, struct cred **new_cred)
return create_user_ns(cred);
}
-void free_user_ns(struct kref *kref)
+void free_user_ns(struct user_namespace *ns)
{
- struct user_namespace *parent, *ns =
- container_of(kref, struct user_namespace, kref);
+ struct user_namespace *parent;
- parent = ns->parent;
- proc_free_inum(ns->proc_inum);
- kmem_cache_free(user_ns_cachep, ns);
- put_user_ns(parent);
+ do {
+ parent = ns->parent;
+ proc_free_inum(ns->proc_inum);
+ kmem_cache_free(user_ns_cachep, ns);
+ ns = parent;
+ } while (atomic_dec_and_test(&parent->count));
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(free_user_ns);