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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2016-09-28 00:27:17 -0500
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2017-04-30 05:49:28 +0200
commitc50fd34e10897114a7be2120133bd7e0b4184024 (patch)
tree2c8dd91bee2403cfc448673eed02717553f9e2bc /Documentation
parent59e0cd110fb9fb9aa97bb59c57789adb0e82da8d (diff)
mnt: Add a per mount namespace limit on the number of mounts
commit d29216842a85c7970c536108e093963f02714498 upstream. CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com> pointed out that the semantics of shared subtrees make it possible to create an exponentially increasing number of mounts in a mount namespace. mkdir /tmp/1 /tmp/2 mount --make-rshared / for i in $(seq 1 20) ; do mount --bind /tmp/1 /tmp/2 ; done Will create create 2^20 or 1048576 mounts, which is a practical problem as some people have managed to hit this by accident. As such CVE-2016-6213 was assigned. Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> described the situation for autofs users as follows: > The number of mounts for direct mount maps is usually not very large because of > the way they are implemented, large direct mount maps can have performance > problems. There can be anywhere from a few (likely case a few hundred) to less > than 10000, plus mounts that have been triggered and not yet expired. > > Indirect mounts have one autofs mount at the root plus the number of mounts that > have been triggered and not yet expired. > > The number of autofs indirect map entries can range from a few to the common > case of several thousand and in rare cases up to between 30000 and 50000. I've > not heard of people with maps larger than 50000 entries. > > The larger the number of map entries the greater the possibility for a large > number of active mounts so it's not hard to expect cases of a 1000 or somewhat > more active mounts. So I am setting the default number of mounts allowed per mount namespace at 100,000. This is more than enough for any use case I know of, but small enough to quickly stop an exponential increase in mounts. Which should be perfect to catch misconfigurations and malfunctioning programs. For anyone who needs a higher limit this can be changed by writing to the new /proc/sys/fs/mount-max sysctl. Tested-by: CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> [bwh: Backported to 4.4: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt
index 302b5ed616a6..35e17f748ca7 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt
@@ -265,6 +265,13 @@ aio-nr can grow to.
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+mount-max:
+
+This denotes the maximum number of mounts that may exist
+in a mount namespace.
+
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+
2. /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
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