From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>,
Rune Kleveland <rune.kleveland@infomedia.dk>,
Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>,
Jordan Glover <Golden_Miller83@protonmail.ch>,
Antoine Martin <antoine@nagafix.co.uk>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Subject: [GIT PULL] ucount fixes for v5.15
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2021 11:02:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877de6e589.fsf@disp2133> (raw)
Linus,
Please pull the ucount-fixes-for-v5.15 branch from the git tree:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace.git ucount-fixes-for-v5.15
HEAD: 5ebcbe342b1c12fae44b4f83cbeae1520e09857e ucounts: Move get_ucounts from cred_alloc_blank to key_change_session_keyring
There has been one very hard to track down bug in the ucount code that
we have been tracking since roughly v5.14 was released. Alex managed to
find a reliable reproducer a few days ago and then I was able to
instrument the code and figure out what the issue was.
It turns out the sigqueue_alloc single atomic operation optimization did
not play nicely with ucounts multiple level rlimits. It turned out that
either sigqueue_alloc or sigqueue_free could be operating on multiple
levels and trigger the conditions for the optimization on more than one
level at the same time.
To deal with that situation I have introduced inc_rlimit_get_ucounts
and dec_rlimit_put_ucounts that just focuses on the optimization and
the rlimit and ucount changes.
While looking into the big bug I found I couple of other little issues
so I am including those fixes here as well.
When I have time I would very much like to dig into process ownership of
the shared signal queue and see if we could pick a single owner for the
entire queue so that all of the rlimits can count to that owner. Which
should entirely remove the need to call get_ucounts and put_ucounts
in sigqueue_alloc and sigqueue_free. It is difficult because Linux
unlike POSIX supports setuid that works on a single thread.
Eric W. Biederman (4):
ucounts: Fix signal ucount refcounting
ucounts: Pair inc_rlimit_ucounts with dec_rlimit_ucoutns in commit_creds
ucounts: Proper error handling in set_cred_ucounts
ucounts: Move get_ucounts from cred_alloc_blank to key_change_session_keyring
kernel/cred.c | 9 ++++-----
security/keys/process_keys.c | 8 ++++++++
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
Eric
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2021-10-21 16:02 Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2021-10-22 3:35 ` [GIT PULL] ucount fixes for v5.15 Linus Torvalds
2021-10-22 14:59 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-10-22 5:10 ` pr-tracker-bot
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