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From: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>,
	 Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Cc: "Jann Horn" <jannh@google.com>, "Mike Yuan" <me@yhndnzj.com>,
	"Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek" <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>,
	"Lennart Poettering" <mzxreary@0pointer.de>,
	"Daan De Meyer" <daan.j.demeyer@gmail.com>,
	"Aleksa Sarai" <cyphar@cyphar.com>,
	"Amir Goldstein" <amir73il@gmail.com>,
	"Tejun Heo" <tj@kernel.org>,
	"Johannes Weiner" <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"Alexander Viro" <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	"Jan Kara" <jack@suse.cz>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
	bpf@vger.kernel.org, "Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@google.com>,
	"Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
	"Christian Brauner" <brauner@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 2/8] ns: don't increment or decrement initial namespaces
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2025 22:11:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251109-namespace-6-19-fixes-v1-2-ae8a4ad5a3b3@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251109-namespace-6-19-fixes-v1-0-ae8a4ad5a3b3@kernel.org>

There's no need to bump the active reference counts of initial
namespaces as they're always active and can simply remain at 1.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
---
 include/linux/ns_common.h | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++---
 kernel/nscommon.c         |  6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/ns_common.h b/include/linux/ns_common.h
index bd4492ef6ffc..791b18dc77d0 100644
--- a/include/linux/ns_common.h
+++ b/include/linux/ns_common.h
@@ -141,6 +141,12 @@ static __always_inline bool is_initial_namespace(struct ns_common *ns)
 				 IPC_NS_INIT_INO - MNT_NS_INIT_INO + 1));
 }
 
+static __always_inline bool is_ns_init_id(const struct ns_common *ns)
+{
+	VFS_WARN_ON_ONCE(ns->ns_id == 0);
+	return ns->ns_id <= NS_LAST_INIT_ID;
+}
+
 #define to_ns_common(__ns)                                    \
 	_Generic((__ns),                                      \
 		struct cgroup_namespace *:       &(__ns)->ns, \
@@ -285,14 +291,19 @@ void __ns_ref_active_get_owner(struct ns_common *ns);
 
 static __always_inline void __ns_ref_active_get(struct ns_common *ns)
 {
-	WARN_ON_ONCE(atomic_add_negative(1, &ns->__ns_ref_active));
-	VFS_WARN_ON_ONCE(is_initial_namespace(ns) && __ns_ref_active_read(ns) <= 0);
+	/* Initial namespaces are always active. */
+	if (!is_ns_init_id(ns))
+		WARN_ON_ONCE(atomic_add_negative(1, &ns->__ns_ref_active));
 }
 #define ns_ref_active_get(__ns) \
 	do { if (__ns) __ns_ref_active_get(to_ns_common(__ns)); } while (0)
 
 static __always_inline bool __ns_ref_active_get_not_zero(struct ns_common *ns)
 {
+	/* Initial namespaces are always active. */
+	if (is_ns_init_id(ns))
+		return true;
+
 	if (atomic_inc_not_zero(&ns->__ns_ref_active)) {
 		VFS_WARN_ON_ONCE(!__ns_ref_read(ns));
 		return true;
@@ -307,6 +318,10 @@ void __ns_ref_active_put_owner(struct ns_common *ns);
 
 static __always_inline void __ns_ref_active_put(struct ns_common *ns)
 {
+	/* Initial namespaces are always active. */
+	if (is_ns_init_id(ns))
+		return;
+
 	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&ns->__ns_ref_active)) {
 		VFS_WARN_ON_ONCE(is_initial_namespace(ns));
 		VFS_WARN_ON_ONCE(!__ns_ref_read(ns));
@@ -319,8 +334,10 @@ static __always_inline void __ns_ref_active_put(struct ns_common *ns)
 static __always_inline struct ns_common *__must_check ns_get_unless_inactive(struct ns_common *ns)
 {
 	VFS_WARN_ON_ONCE(__ns_ref_active_read(ns) && !__ns_ref_read(ns));
-	if (!__ns_ref_active_read(ns))
+	if (!__ns_ref_active_read(ns)) {
+		VFS_WARN_ON_ONCE(is_ns_init_id(ns));
 		return NULL;
+	}
 	if (!__ns_ref_get(ns))
 		return NULL;
 	return ns;
diff --git a/kernel/nscommon.c b/kernel/nscommon.c
index d67ae7ad7759..70cb66232e4c 100644
--- a/kernel/nscommon.c
+++ b/kernel/nscommon.c
@@ -177,6 +177,7 @@ void __ns_ref_active_put_owner(struct ns_common *ns)
 		ns = ns_owner(ns);
 		if (!ns)
 			return;
+		VFS_WARN_ON_ONCE(is_ns_init_id(ns));
 		if (!atomic_dec_and_test(&ns->__ns_ref_active))
 			return;
 	}
@@ -276,6 +277,10 @@ void __ns_ref_active_put_owner(struct ns_common *ns)
  */
 void __ns_ref_active_resurrect(struct ns_common *ns)
 {
+	/* Initial namespaces are always active. */
+	if (is_ns_init_id(ns))
+		return;
+
 	/* If we didn't resurrect the namespace we're done. */
 	if (atomic_fetch_add(1, &ns->__ns_ref_active))
 		return;
@@ -289,6 +294,7 @@ void __ns_ref_active_resurrect(struct ns_common *ns)
 		if (!ns)
 			return;
 
+		VFS_WARN_ON_ONCE(is_ns_init_id(ns));
 		if (atomic_fetch_add(1, &ns->__ns_ref_active))
 			return;
 	}

-- 
2.47.3


  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-11-09 21:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-11-09 21:11 [PATCH 0/8] ns: fixes for namespace iteration and active reference counting Christian Brauner
2025-11-09 21:11 ` [PATCH 1/8] ns: don't skip active reference count initialization Christian Brauner
2025-11-09 21:11 ` Christian Brauner [this message]
2025-11-09 21:11 ` [PATCH 3/8] ns: make sure reference are dropped outside of rcu lock Christian Brauner
2025-11-09 21:11 ` [PATCH 4/8] ns: return EFAULT on put_user() error Christian Brauner
2025-11-09 21:11 ` [PATCH 5/8] ns: handle setns(pidfd, ...) cleanly Christian Brauner
2025-11-09 21:11 ` [PATCH 6/8] ns: add asserts for active refcount underflow Christian Brauner
2025-11-09 21:11 ` [PATCH 7/8] selftests/namespaces: add active reference count regression test Christian Brauner
2025-11-09 21:11 ` [PATCH 8/8] selftests/namespaces: test for efault Christian Brauner

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