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 6/8] ns: add asserts for active refcount underflow
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2025 22:11:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251109-namespace-6-19-fixes-v1-6-ae8a4ad5a3b3@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251109-namespace-6-19-fixes-v1-0-ae8a4ad5a3b3@kernel.org>
Add a few more assert to detect active reference count underflows.
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
---
include/linux/ns_common.h | 1 -
kernel/nscommon.c | 18 ++++++++++++++----
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/ns_common.h b/include/linux/ns_common.h
index 3aaba2ca31d7..66ea09b48377 100644
--- a/include/linux/ns_common.h
+++ b/include/linux/ns_common.h
@@ -294,7 +294,6 @@ 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)) {
VFS_WARN_ON_ONCE(is_ns_init_id(ns));
return NULL;
diff --git a/kernel/nscommon.c b/kernel/nscommon.c
index bfd2d6805776..c910b979e433 100644
--- a/kernel/nscommon.c
+++ b/kernel/nscommon.c
@@ -170,8 +170,10 @@ void __ns_ref_active_put(struct ns_common *ns)
if (is_ns_init_id(ns))
return;
- if (!atomic_dec_and_test(&ns->__ns_ref_active))
+ if (!atomic_dec_and_test(&ns->__ns_ref_active)) {
+ VFS_WARN_ON_ONCE(__ns_ref_active_read(ns) < 0);
return;
+ }
VFS_WARN_ON_ONCE(is_ns_init_id(ns));
VFS_WARN_ON_ONCE(!__ns_ref_read(ns));
@@ -181,8 +183,10 @@ void __ns_ref_active_put(struct ns_common *ns)
if (!ns)
return;
VFS_WARN_ON_ONCE(is_ns_init_id(ns));
- if (!atomic_dec_and_test(&ns->__ns_ref_active))
+ if (!atomic_dec_and_test(&ns->__ns_ref_active)) {
+ VFS_WARN_ON_ONCE(__ns_ref_active_read(ns) < 0);
return;
+ }
}
}
@@ -280,12 +284,16 @@ void __ns_ref_active_put(struct ns_common *ns)
*/
void __ns_ref_active_get(struct ns_common *ns)
{
+ int prev;
+
/* 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))
+ prev = atomic_fetch_add(1, &ns->__ns_ref_active);
+ VFS_WARN_ON_ONCE(prev < 0);
+ if (likely(prev))
return;
/*
@@ -298,7 +306,9 @@ void __ns_ref_active_get(struct ns_common *ns)
return;
VFS_WARN_ON_ONCE(is_ns_init_id(ns));
- if (atomic_fetch_add(1, &ns->__ns_ref_active))
+ prev = atomic_fetch_add(1, &ns->__ns_ref_active);
+ VFS_WARN_ON_ONCE(prev < 0);
+ if (likely(prev))
return;
}
}
--
2.47.3
next prev 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 ` [PATCH 2/8] ns: don't increment or decrement initial namespaces Christian Brauner
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 ` Christian Brauner [this message]
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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