From c61a2810a2161986353705b44d9503e6bb079f4f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 18:58:39 -0800 Subject: userns: Avoid recursion in put_user_ns When freeing a deeply nested user namespace free_user_ns calls put_user_ns on it's parent which may in turn call free_user_ns again. When -fno-optimize-sibling-calls is passed to gcc one stack frame per user namespace is left on the stack, potentially overflowing the kernel stack. CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER forces -fno-optimize-sibling-calls so we can't count on gcc to optimize this code. Remove struct kref and use a plain atomic_t. Making the code more flexible and easier to comprehend. Make the loop in free_user_ns explict to guarantee that the stack does not overflow with CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER enabled. I have tested this fix with a simple program that uses unshare to create a deeply nested user namespace structure and then calls exit. With 1000 nesteuser namespaces before this change running my test program causes the kernel to die a horrible death. With 10,000,000 nested user namespaces after this change my test program runs to completion and causes no harm. Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Pointed-out-by: Vasily Kulikov Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" --- kernel/user.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/user.c') diff --git a/kernel/user.c b/kernel/user.c index 33acb5e53a5f..57ebfd42023c 100644 --- a/kernel/user.c +++ b/kernel/user.c @@ -47,9 +47,7 @@ struct user_namespace init_user_ns = { .count = 4294967295U, }, }, - .kref = { - .refcount = ATOMIC_INIT(3), - }, + .count = ATOMIC_INIT(3), .owner = GLOBAL_ROOT_UID, .group = GLOBAL_ROOT_GID, .proc_inum = PROC_USER_INIT_INO, -- cgit v1.2.3