From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ebiederm-aS9lmoZGLiVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org (Eric W. Biederman) Subject: [PATCH review 6/6] userns: Allow the userns root to mount tmpfs. Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:26:48 -0800 Message-ID: <87d2wshe6v.fsf@xmission.com> References: <87ehh8it9s.fsf@xmission.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <87ehh8it9s.fsf-aS9lmoZGLiVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> (Eric W. Biederman's message of "Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:15:43 -0800") List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org Errors-To: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org To: Linux Containers Cc: linux-fsdevel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: containers.vger.kernel.org There is no backing store to tmpfs and file creation rules are the same as for any other filesystem so it is semantically safe to allow unprivileged users to mount it. ramfs is safe for the same reasons so allow either flavor of tmpfs to be mounted by a user namespace root user. The memory control group successfully limits how much memory tmpfs can consume on any system that cares about a user namespace root using tmpfs to exhaust memory the memory control group can be deployed. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" --- mm/shmem.c | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c index 5c90d84..197ca5e 100644 --- a/mm/shmem.c +++ b/mm/shmem.c @@ -2766,6 +2766,7 @@ static struct file_system_type shmem_fs_type = { .name = "tmpfs", .mount = shmem_mount, .kill_sb = kill_litter_super, + .fs_flags = FS_USERNS_MOUNT, }; int __init shmem_init(void) @@ -2823,6 +2824,7 @@ static struct file_system_type shmem_fs_type = { .name = "tmpfs", .mount = ramfs_mount, .kill_sb = kill_litter_super, + .fs_flags = FS_USERNS_MOUNT, }; int __init shmem_init(void) -- 1.7.5.4