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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>printk: Change type of CONFIG_BASE_SMALL to bool</title>
<updated>2024-05-06T15:39:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yoann Congal</name>
<email>yoann.congal@smile.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-05T08:03:42+00:00</published>
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CONFIG_BASE_SMALL is currently a type int but is only used as a boolean.

So, change its type to bool and adapt all usages:
CONFIG_BASE_SMALL == 0 becomes !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_BASE_SMALL) and
CONFIG_BASE_SMALL != 0 becomes  IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_BASE_SMALL).

Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yoann Congal &lt;yoann.congal@smile.fr&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240505080343.1471198-3-yoann.congal@smile.fr
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
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<pre>
CONFIG_BASE_SMALL is currently a type int but is only used as a boolean.

So, change its type to bool and adapt all usages:
CONFIG_BASE_SMALL == 0 becomes !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_BASE_SMALL) and
CONFIG_BASE_SMALL != 0 becomes  IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_BASE_SMALL).

Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yoann Congal &lt;yoann.congal@smile.fr&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240505080343.1471198-3-yoann.congal@smile.fr
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>binfmt_misc: enable sandboxed mounts</title>
<updated>2023-10-11T15:46:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>christian.brauner@ubuntu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-28T10:31:14+00:00</published>
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Enable unprivileged sandboxes to create their own binfmt_misc mounts.
This is based on Laurent's work in [1] but has been significantly
reworked to fix various issues we identified in earlier versions.

While binfmt_misc can currently only be mounted in the initial user
namespace, binary types registered in this binfmt_misc instance are
available to all sandboxes (Either by having them installed in the
sandbox or by registering the binary type with the F flag causing the
interpreter to be opened right away). So binfmt_misc binary types are
already delegated to sandboxes implicitly.

However, while a sandbox has access to all registered binary types in
binfmt_misc a sandbox cannot currently register its own binary types
in binfmt_misc. This has prevented various use-cases some of which were
already outlined in [1] but we have a range of issues associated with
this (cf. [3]-[5] below which are just a small sample).

Extend binfmt_misc to be mountable in non-initial user namespaces.
Similar to other filesystem such as nfsd, mqueue, and sunrpc we use
keyed superblock management. The key determines whether we need to
create a new superblock or can reuse an already existing one. We use the
user namespace of the mount as key. This means a new binfmt_misc
superblock is created once per user namespace creation. Subsequent
mounts of binfmt_misc in the same user namespace will mount the same
binfmt_misc instance. We explicitly do not create a new binfmt_misc
superblock on every binfmt_misc mount as the semantics for
load_misc_binary() line up with the keying model. This also allows us to
retrieve the relevant binfmt_misc instance based on the caller's user
namespace which can be done in a simple (bounded to 32 levels) loop.

Similar to the current binfmt_misc semantics allowing access to the
binary types in the initial binfmt_misc instance we do allow sandboxes
access to their parent's binfmt_misc mounts if they do not have created
a separate binfmt_misc instance.

Overall, this will unblock the use-cases mentioned below and in general
will also allow to support and harden execution of another
architecture's binaries in tight sandboxes. For instance, using the
unshare binary it possible to start a chroot of another architecture and
configure the binfmt_misc interpreter without being root to run the
binaries in this chroot and without requiring the host to modify its
binary type handlers.

Henning had already posted a few experiments in the cover letter at [1].
But here's an additional example where an unprivileged container
registers qemu-user-static binary handlers for various binary types in
its separate binfmt_misc mount and is then seamlessly able to start
containers with a different architecture without affecting the host:

root    [lxc monitor] /var/snap/lxd/common/lxd/containers f1
1000000  \_ /sbin/init
1000000      \_ /lib/systemd/systemd-journald
1000000      \_ /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
1000100      \_ /lib/systemd/systemd-networkd
1000101      \_ /lib/systemd/systemd-resolved
1000000      \_ /usr/sbin/cron -f
1000103      \_ /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation --syslog-only
1000000      \_ /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/networkd-dispatcher --run-startup-triggers
1000104      \_ /usr/sbin/rsyslogd -n -iNONE
1000000      \_ /lib/systemd/systemd-logind
1000000      \_ /sbin/agetty -o -p -- \u --noclear --keep-baud console 115200,38400,9600 vt220
1000107      \_ dnsmasq --conf-file=/dev/null -u lxc-dnsmasq --strict-order --bind-interfaces --pid-file=/run/lxc/dnsmasq.pid --liste
1000000      \_ [lxc monitor] /var/lib/lxc f1-s390x
1100000          \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /sbin/init
1100000              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /lib/systemd/systemd-journald
1100000              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /usr/sbin/cron -f
1100103              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-ac
1100000              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/networkd-dispatcher --run-startup-triggers
1100104              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /usr/sbin/rsyslogd -n -iNONE
1100000              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /lib/systemd/systemd-logind
1100000              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /sbin/agetty -o -p -- \u --noclear --keep-baud console 115200,38400,9600 vt220
1100000              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /sbin/agetty -o -p -- \u --noclear --keep-baud pts/0 115200,38400,9600 vt220
1100000              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /sbin/agetty -o -p -- \u --noclear --keep-baud pts/1 115200,38400,9600 vt220
1100000              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /sbin/agetty -o -p -- \u --noclear --keep-baud pts/2 115200,38400,9600 vt220
1100000              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /sbin/agetty -o -p -- \u --noclear --keep-baud pts/3 115200,38400,9600 vt220
1100000              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20191216091220.465626-1-laurent@vivier.eu
[2]: https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/binfmt-misc-permission-denied
[3]: https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/lxd-binfmt-support-for-qemu-static-interpreters
[4]: https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/3-1-0-binfmt-support-service-in-unprivileged-guest-requires-write-access-on-hosts-proc-sys-fs-binfmt-misc
[5]: https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/qemu-user-static-not-working-4-11

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191216091220.465626-2-laurent@vivier.eu (origin)
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211028103114.2849140-2-brauner@kernel.org (v1)
Cc: Sargun Dhillon &lt;sargun@sargun.me&gt;
Cc: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Henning Schild &lt;henning.schild@siemens.com&gt;
Cc: Andrei Vagin &lt;avagin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Laurent Vivier &lt;laurent@vivier.eu&gt;
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier &lt;laurent@vivier.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
---
/* v2 */
- Serge Hallyn &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;:
  - Use GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT for userspace triggered allocations when a
    new binary type handler is registered.
- Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;:
  - Switch authorship to me. I refused to do that earlier even though
    Laurent said I should do so because I think it's genuinely bad form.
    But by now I have changed so many things that it'd be unfair to
    blame Laurent for any potential bugs in here.
  - Add more comments that explain what's going on.
  - Rename functions while changing them to better reflect what they are
    doing to make the code easier to understand.
  - In the first version when a specific binary type handler was removed
    either through a write to the entry's file or all binary type
    handlers were removed by a write to the binfmt_misc mount's status
    file all cleanup work happened during inode eviction.
    That includes removal of the relevant entries from entry list. While
    that works fine I disliked that model after thinking about it for a
    bit. Because it means that there was a window were someone has
    already removed a or all binary handlers but they could still be
    safely reached from load_misc_binary() when it has managed to take
    the read_lock() on the entries list while inode eviction was already
    happening. Again, that perfectly benign but it's cleaner to remove
    the binary handler from the list immediately meaning that ones the
    write to then entry's file or the binfmt_misc status file returns
    the binary type cannot be executed anymore. That gives stronger
    guarantees to the user.
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Enable unprivileged sandboxes to create their own binfmt_misc mounts.
This is based on Laurent's work in [1] but has been significantly
reworked to fix various issues we identified in earlier versions.

While binfmt_misc can currently only be mounted in the initial user
namespace, binary types registered in this binfmt_misc instance are
available to all sandboxes (Either by having them installed in the
sandbox or by registering the binary type with the F flag causing the
interpreter to be opened right away). So binfmt_misc binary types are
already delegated to sandboxes implicitly.

However, while a sandbox has access to all registered binary types in
binfmt_misc a sandbox cannot currently register its own binary types
in binfmt_misc. This has prevented various use-cases some of which were
already outlined in [1] but we have a range of issues associated with
this (cf. [3]-[5] below which are just a small sample).

Extend binfmt_misc to be mountable in non-initial user namespaces.
Similar to other filesystem such as nfsd, mqueue, and sunrpc we use
keyed superblock management. The key determines whether we need to
create a new superblock or can reuse an already existing one. We use the
user namespace of the mount as key. This means a new binfmt_misc
superblock is created once per user namespace creation. Subsequent
mounts of binfmt_misc in the same user namespace will mount the same
binfmt_misc instance. We explicitly do not create a new binfmt_misc
superblock on every binfmt_misc mount as the semantics for
load_misc_binary() line up with the keying model. This also allows us to
retrieve the relevant binfmt_misc instance based on the caller's user
namespace which can be done in a simple (bounded to 32 levels) loop.

Similar to the current binfmt_misc semantics allowing access to the
binary types in the initial binfmt_misc instance we do allow sandboxes
access to their parent's binfmt_misc mounts if they do not have created
a separate binfmt_misc instance.

Overall, this will unblock the use-cases mentioned below and in general
will also allow to support and harden execution of another
architecture's binaries in tight sandboxes. For instance, using the
unshare binary it possible to start a chroot of another architecture and
configure the binfmt_misc interpreter without being root to run the
binaries in this chroot and without requiring the host to modify its
binary type handlers.

Henning had already posted a few experiments in the cover letter at [1].
But here's an additional example where an unprivileged container
registers qemu-user-static binary handlers for various binary types in
its separate binfmt_misc mount and is then seamlessly able to start
containers with a different architecture without affecting the host:

root    [lxc monitor] /var/snap/lxd/common/lxd/containers f1
1000000  \_ /sbin/init
1000000      \_ /lib/systemd/systemd-journald
1000000      \_ /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
1000100      \_ /lib/systemd/systemd-networkd
1000101      \_ /lib/systemd/systemd-resolved
1000000      \_ /usr/sbin/cron -f
1000103      \_ /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation --syslog-only
1000000      \_ /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/networkd-dispatcher --run-startup-triggers
1000104      \_ /usr/sbin/rsyslogd -n -iNONE
1000000      \_ /lib/systemd/systemd-logind
1000000      \_ /sbin/agetty -o -p -- \u --noclear --keep-baud console 115200,38400,9600 vt220
1000107      \_ dnsmasq --conf-file=/dev/null -u lxc-dnsmasq --strict-order --bind-interfaces --pid-file=/run/lxc/dnsmasq.pid --liste
1000000      \_ [lxc monitor] /var/lib/lxc f1-s390x
1100000          \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /sbin/init
1100000              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /lib/systemd/systemd-journald
1100000              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /usr/sbin/cron -f
1100103              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-ac
1100000              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/networkd-dispatcher --run-startup-triggers
1100104              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /usr/sbin/rsyslogd -n -iNONE
1100000              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /lib/systemd/systemd-logind
1100000              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /sbin/agetty -o -p -- \u --noclear --keep-baud console 115200,38400,9600 vt220
1100000              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /sbin/agetty -o -p -- \u --noclear --keep-baud pts/0 115200,38400,9600 vt220
1100000              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /sbin/agetty -o -p -- \u --noclear --keep-baud pts/1 115200,38400,9600 vt220
1100000              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /sbin/agetty -o -p -- \u --noclear --keep-baud pts/2 115200,38400,9600 vt220
1100000              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /sbin/agetty -o -p -- \u --noclear --keep-baud pts/3 115200,38400,9600 vt220
1100000              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20191216091220.465626-1-laurent@vivier.eu
[2]: https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/binfmt-misc-permission-denied
[3]: https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/lxd-binfmt-support-for-qemu-static-interpreters
[4]: https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/3-1-0-binfmt-support-service-in-unprivileged-guest-requires-write-access-on-hosts-proc-sys-fs-binfmt-misc
[5]: https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/qemu-user-static-not-working-4-11

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191216091220.465626-2-laurent@vivier.eu (origin)
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211028103114.2849140-2-brauner@kernel.org (v1)
Cc: Sargun Dhillon &lt;sargun@sargun.me&gt;
Cc: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Henning Schild &lt;henning.schild@siemens.com&gt;
Cc: Andrei Vagin &lt;avagin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Laurent Vivier &lt;laurent@vivier.eu&gt;
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier &lt;laurent@vivier.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
---
/* v2 */
- Serge Hallyn &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;:
  - Use GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT for userspace triggered allocations when a
    new binary type handler is registered.
- Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;:
  - Switch authorship to me. I refused to do that earlier even though
    Laurent said I should do so because I think it's genuinely bad form.
    But by now I have changed so many things that it'd be unfair to
    blame Laurent for any potential bugs in here.
  - Add more comments that explain what's going on.
  - Rename functions while changing them to better reflect what they are
    doing to make the code easier to understand.
  - In the first version when a specific binary type handler was removed
    either through a write to the entry's file or all binary type
    handlers were removed by a write to the binfmt_misc mount's status
    file all cleanup work happened during inode eviction.
    That includes removal of the relevant entries from entry list. While
    that works fine I disliked that model after thinking about it for a
    bit. Because it means that there was a window were someone has
    already removed a or all binary handlers but they could still be
    safely reached from load_misc_binary() when it has managed to take
    the read_lock() on the entries list while inode eviction was already
    happening. Again, that perfectly benign but it's cleaner to remove
    the binary handler from the list immediately meaning that ones the
    write to then entry's file or the binfmt_misc status file returns
    the binary type cannot be executed anymore. That gives stronger
    guarantees to the user.
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel/user: Allow user_struct::locked_vm to be usable for iommufd</title>
<updated>2022-12-01T00:16:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Gunthorpe</name>
<email>jgg@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-29T20:29:30+00:00</published>
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Following the pattern of io_uring, perf, skb, and bpf, iommfd will use
user-&gt;locked_vm for accounting pinned pages. Ensure the value is included
in the struct and export free_uid() as iommufd is modular.

user-&gt;locked_vm is the good accounting to use for ulimit because it is
per-user, and the security sandboxing of locked pages is not supposed to
be per-process. Other places (vfio, vdpa and infiniband) have used
mm-&gt;pinned_vm and/or mm-&gt;locked_vm for accounting pinned pages, but this
is only per-process and inconsistent with the new FOLL_LONGTERM users in
the kernel.

Concurrent work is underway to try to put this in a cgroup, so everything
can be consistent and the kernel can provide a FOLL_LONGTERM limit that
actually provides security.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/7-v6-a196d26f289e+11787-iommufd_jgg@nvidia.com
Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian &lt;kevin.tian@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger &lt;eric.auger@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nicolin Chen &lt;nicolinc@nvidia.com&gt;
Tested-by: Yi Liu &lt;yi.l.liu@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Lixiao Yang &lt;lixiao.yang@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Matthew Rosato &lt;mjrosato@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Following the pattern of io_uring, perf, skb, and bpf, iommfd will use
user-&gt;locked_vm for accounting pinned pages. Ensure the value is included
in the struct and export free_uid() as iommufd is modular.

user-&gt;locked_vm is the good accounting to use for ulimit because it is
per-user, and the security sandboxing of locked pages is not supposed to
be per-process. Other places (vfio, vdpa and infiniband) have used
mm-&gt;pinned_vm and/or mm-&gt;locked_vm for accounting pinned pages, but this
is only per-process and inconsistent with the new FOLL_LONGTERM users in
the kernel.

Concurrent work is underway to try to put this in a cgroup, so everything
can be consistent and the kernel can provide a FOLL_LONGTERM limit that
actually provides security.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/7-v6-a196d26f289e+11787-iommufd_jgg@nvidia.com
Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian &lt;kevin.tian@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger &lt;eric.auger@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nicolin Chen &lt;nicolinc@nvidia.com&gt;
Tested-by: Yi Liu &lt;yi.l.liu@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Lixiao Yang &lt;lixiao.yang@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Matthew Rosato &lt;mjrosato@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs/epoll: use a per-cpu counter for user's watches count</title>
<updated>2021-09-08T18:50:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-08T03:00:00+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=1e1c15839df084f4011825fee922aa976c9159dc'/>
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<content type='text'>
This counter tracks the number of watches a user has, to compare against
the 'max_user_watches' limit. This causes a scalability bottleneck on
SPECjbb2015 on large systems as there is only one user. Changing to a
per-cpu counter increases throughput of the benchmark by about 30% on a
16-socket, &gt; 1000 thread system.

[rdunlap@infradead.org: fix build errors in kernel/user.c when CONFIG_EPOLL=n]
[npiggin@gmail.com: move ifdefs into wrapper functions, slightly improve panic message]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1628051945.fens3r99ox.astroid@bobo.none
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak user_epoll_alloc(), per Guenter]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210804191421.GA1900577@roeck-us.net

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210802032013.2751916-1-npiggin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@ozlabs.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This counter tracks the number of watches a user has, to compare against
the 'max_user_watches' limit. This causes a scalability bottleneck on
SPECjbb2015 on large systems as there is only one user. Changing to a
per-cpu counter increases throughput of the benchmark by about 30% on a
16-socket, &gt; 1000 thread system.

[rdunlap@infradead.org: fix build errors in kernel/user.c when CONFIG_EPOLL=n]
[npiggin@gmail.com: move ifdefs into wrapper functions, slightly improve panic message]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1628051945.fens3r99ox.astroid@bobo.none
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak user_epoll_alloc(), per Guenter]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210804191421.GA1900577@roeck-us.net

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210802032013.2751916-1-npiggin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@ozlabs.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Reimplement RLIMIT_MEMLOCK on top of ucounts</title>
<updated>2021-04-30T19:14:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Gladkov</name>
<email>legion@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-22T12:27:14+00:00</published>
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The rlimit counter is tied to uid in the user_namespace. This allows
rlimit values to be specified in userns even if they are already
globally exceeded by the user. However, the value of the previous
user_namespaces cannot be exceeded.

Changelog

v11:
* Fix issue found by lkp robot.

v8:
* Fix issues found by lkp-tests project.

v7:
* Keep only ucounts for RLIMIT_MEMLOCK checks instead of struct cred.

v6:
* Fix bug in hugetlb_file_setup() detected by trinity.

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;oliver.sang@intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov &lt;legion@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/970d50c70c71bfd4496e0e8d2a0a32feebebb350.1619094428.git.legion@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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The rlimit counter is tied to uid in the user_namespace. This allows
rlimit values to be specified in userns even if they are already
globally exceeded by the user. However, the value of the previous
user_namespaces cannot be exceeded.

Changelog

v11:
* Fix issue found by lkp robot.

v8:
* Fix issues found by lkp-tests project.

v7:
* Keep only ucounts for RLIMIT_MEMLOCK checks instead of struct cred.

v6:
* Fix bug in hugetlb_file_setup() detected by trinity.

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;oliver.sang@intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov &lt;legion@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/970d50c70c71bfd4496e0e8d2a0a32feebebb350.1619094428.git.legion@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Reimplement RLIMIT_SIGPENDING on top of ucounts</title>
<updated>2021-04-30T19:14:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Gladkov</name>
<email>legion@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-22T12:27:13+00:00</published>
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The rlimit counter is tied to uid in the user_namespace. This allows
rlimit values to be specified in userns even if they are already
globally exceeded by the user. However, the value of the previous
user_namespaces cannot be exceeded.

Changelog

v11:
* Revert most of changes to fix performance issues.

v10:
* Fix memory leak on get_ucounts failure.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov &lt;legion@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/df9d7764dddd50f28616b7840de74ec0f81711a8.1619094428.git.legion@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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The rlimit counter is tied to uid in the user_namespace. This allows
rlimit values to be specified in userns even if they are already
globally exceeded by the user. However, the value of the previous
user_namespaces cannot be exceeded.

Changelog

v11:
* Revert most of changes to fix performance issues.

v10:
* Fix memory leak on get_ucounts failure.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov &lt;legion@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/df9d7764dddd50f28616b7840de74ec0f81711a8.1619094428.git.legion@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Reimplement RLIMIT_NPROC on top of ucounts</title>
<updated>2021-04-30T19:14:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Gladkov</name>
<email>legion@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-22T12:27:11+00:00</published>
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The rlimit counter is tied to uid in the user_namespace. This allows
rlimit values to be specified in userns even if they are already
globally exceeded by the user. However, the value of the previous
user_namespaces cannot be exceeded.

To illustrate the impact of rlimits, let's say there is a program that
does not fork. Some service-A wants to run this program as user X in
multiple containers. Since the program never fork the service wants to
set RLIMIT_NPROC=1.

service-A
 \- program (uid=1000, container1, rlimit_nproc=1)
 \- program (uid=1000, container2, rlimit_nproc=1)

The service-A sets RLIMIT_NPROC=1 and runs the program in container1.
When the service-A tries to run a program with RLIMIT_NPROC=1 in
container2 it fails since user X already has one running process.

We cannot use existing inc_ucounts / dec_ucounts because they do not
allow us to exceed the maximum for the counter. Some rlimits can be
overlimited by root or if the user has the appropriate capability.

Changelog

v11:
* Change inc_rlimit_ucounts() which now returns top value of ucounts.
* Drop inc_rlimit_ucounts_and_test() because the return code of
  inc_rlimit_ucounts() can be checked.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov &lt;legion@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c5286a8aa16d2d698c222f7532f3d735c82bc6bc.1619094428.git.legion@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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The rlimit counter is tied to uid in the user_namespace. This allows
rlimit values to be specified in userns even if they are already
globally exceeded by the user. However, the value of the previous
user_namespaces cannot be exceeded.

To illustrate the impact of rlimits, let's say there is a program that
does not fork. Some service-A wants to run this program as user X in
multiple containers. Since the program never fork the service wants to
set RLIMIT_NPROC=1.

service-A
 \- program (uid=1000, container1, rlimit_nproc=1)
 \- program (uid=1000, container2, rlimit_nproc=1)

The service-A sets RLIMIT_NPROC=1 and runs the program in container1.
When the service-A tries to run a program with RLIMIT_NPROC=1 in
container2 it fails since user X already has one running process.

We cannot use existing inc_ucounts / dec_ucounts because they do not
allow us to exceed the maximum for the counter. Some rlimits can be
overlimited by root or if the user has the appropriate capability.

Changelog

v11:
* Change inc_rlimit_ucounts() which now returns top value of ucounts.
* Drop inc_rlimit_ucounts_and_test() because the return code of
  inc_rlimit_ucounts() can be checked.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov &lt;legion@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c5286a8aa16d2d698c222f7532f3d735c82bc6bc.1619094428.git.legion@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>user: Use generic ns_common::count</title>
<updated>2020-08-19T12:14:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill Tkhai</name>
<email>ktkhai@virtuozzo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-03T10:16:37+00:00</published>
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Switch over user namespaces to use the newly introduced common lifetime
counter.

Currently every namespace type has its own lifetime counter which is stored
in the specific namespace struct. The lifetime counters are used
identically for all namespaces types. Namespaces may of course have
additional unrelated counters and these are not altered.

This introduces a common lifetime counter into struct ns_common. The
ns_common struct encompasses information that all namespaces share. That
should include the lifetime counter since its common for all of them.

It also allows us to unify the type of the counters across all namespaces.
Most of them use refcount_t but one uses atomic_t and at least one uses
kref. Especially the last one doesn't make much sense since it's just a
wrapper around refcount_t since 2016 and actually complicates cleanup
operations by having to use container_of() to cast the correct namespace
struct out of struct ns_common.

Having the lifetime counter for the namespaces in one place reduces
maintenance cost. Not just because after switching all namespaces over we
will have removed more code than we added but also because the logic is
more easily understandable and we indicate to the user that the basic
lifetime requirements for all namespaces are currently identical.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai &lt;ktkhai@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/159644979754.604812.601625186726406922.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
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Switch over user namespaces to use the newly introduced common lifetime
counter.

Currently every namespace type has its own lifetime counter which is stored
in the specific namespace struct. The lifetime counters are used
identically for all namespaces types. Namespaces may of course have
additional unrelated counters and these are not altered.

This introduces a common lifetime counter into struct ns_common. The
ns_common struct encompasses information that all namespaces share. That
should include the lifetime counter since its common for all of them.

It also allows us to unify the type of the counters across all namespaces.
Most of them use refcount_t but one uses atomic_t and at least one uses
kref. Especially the last one doesn't make much sense since it's just a
wrapper around refcount_t since 2016 and actually complicates cleanup
operations by having to use container_of() to cast the correct namespace
struct out of struct ns_common.

Having the lifetime counter for the namespaces in one place reduces
maintenance cost. Not just because after switching all namespaces over we
will have removed more code than we added but also because the logic is
more easily understandable and we indicate to the user that the basic
lifetime requirements for all namespaces are currently identical.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai &lt;ktkhai@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/159644979754.604812.601625186726406922.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>user.c: make uidhash_table static</title>
<updated>2020-06-05T02:06:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Yan</name>
<email>yanaijie@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-04T23:49:58+00:00</published>
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Fix the following sparse warning:

  kernel/user.c:85:19: warning: symbol 'uidhash_table' was not declared.
  Should it be static?

Reported-by: Hulk Robot &lt;hulkci@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jason Yan &lt;yanaijie@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200413082146.22737-1-yanaijie@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Fix the following sparse warning:

  kernel/user.c:85:19: warning: symbol 'uidhash_table' was not declared.
  Should it be static?

Reported-by: Hulk Robot &lt;hulkci@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jason Yan &lt;yanaijie@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200413082146.22737-1-yanaijie@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'keys-namespace-20190627' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs</title>
<updated>2019-07-09T02:36:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-09T02:36:47+00:00</published>
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Pull keyring namespacing from David Howells:
 "These patches help make keys and keyrings more namespace aware.

  Firstly some miscellaneous patches to make the process easier:

   - Simplify key index_key handling so that the word-sized chunks
     assoc_array requires don't have to be shifted about, making it
     easier to add more bits into the key.

   - Cache the hash value in the key so that we don't have to calculate
     on every key we examine during a search (it involves a bunch of
     multiplications).

   - Allow keying_search() to search non-recursively.

  Then the main patches:

   - Make it so that keyring names are per-user_namespace from the point
     of view of KEYCTL_JOIN_SESSION_KEYRING so that they're not
     accessible cross-user_namespace.

     keyctl_capabilities() shows KEYCTL_CAPS1_NS_KEYRING_NAME for this.

   - Move the user and user-session keyrings to the user_namespace
     rather than the user_struct. This prevents them propagating
     directly across user_namespaces boundaries (ie. the KEY_SPEC_*
     flags will only pick from the current user_namespace).

   - Make it possible to include the target namespace in which the key
     shall operate in the index_key. This will allow the possibility of
     multiple keys with the same description, but different target
     domains to be held in the same keyring.

     keyctl_capabilities() shows KEYCTL_CAPS1_NS_KEY_TAG for this.

   - Make it so that keys are implicitly invalidated by removal of a
     domain tag, causing them to be garbage collected.

   - Institute a network namespace domain tag that allows keys to be
     differentiated by the network namespace in which they operate. New
     keys that are of a type marked 'KEY_TYPE_NET_DOMAIN' are assigned
     the network domain in force when they are created.

   - Make it so that the desired network namespace can be handed down
     into the request_key() mechanism. This allows AFS, NFS, etc. to
     request keys specific to the network namespace of the superblock.

     This also means that the keys in the DNS record cache are
     thenceforth namespaced, provided network filesystems pass the
     appropriate network namespace down into dns_query().

     For DNS, AFS and NFS are good, whilst CIFS and Ceph are not. Other
     cache keyrings, such as idmapper keyrings, also need to set the
     domain tag - for which they need access to the network namespace of
     the superblock"

* tag 'keys-namespace-20190627' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs:
  keys: Pass the network namespace into request_key mechanism
  keys: Network namespace domain tag
  keys: Garbage collect keys for which the domain has been removed
  keys: Include target namespace in match criteria
  keys: Move the user and user-session keyrings to the user_namespace
  keys: Namespace keyring names
  keys: Add a 'recurse' flag for keyring searches
  keys: Cache the hash value to avoid lots of recalculation
  keys: Simplify key description management
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Pull keyring namespacing from David Howells:
 "These patches help make keys and keyrings more namespace aware.

  Firstly some miscellaneous patches to make the process easier:

   - Simplify key index_key handling so that the word-sized chunks
     assoc_array requires don't have to be shifted about, making it
     easier to add more bits into the key.

   - Cache the hash value in the key so that we don't have to calculate
     on every key we examine during a search (it involves a bunch of
     multiplications).

   - Allow keying_search() to search non-recursively.

  Then the main patches:

   - Make it so that keyring names are per-user_namespace from the point
     of view of KEYCTL_JOIN_SESSION_KEYRING so that they're not
     accessible cross-user_namespace.

     keyctl_capabilities() shows KEYCTL_CAPS1_NS_KEYRING_NAME for this.

   - Move the user and user-session keyrings to the user_namespace
     rather than the user_struct. This prevents them propagating
     directly across user_namespaces boundaries (ie. the KEY_SPEC_*
     flags will only pick from the current user_namespace).

   - Make it possible to include the target namespace in which the key
     shall operate in the index_key. This will allow the possibility of
     multiple keys with the same description, but different target
     domains to be held in the same keyring.

     keyctl_capabilities() shows KEYCTL_CAPS1_NS_KEY_TAG for this.

   - Make it so that keys are implicitly invalidated by removal of a
     domain tag, causing them to be garbage collected.

   - Institute a network namespace domain tag that allows keys to be
     differentiated by the network namespace in which they operate. New
     keys that are of a type marked 'KEY_TYPE_NET_DOMAIN' are assigned
     the network domain in force when they are created.

   - Make it so that the desired network namespace can be handed down
     into the request_key() mechanism. This allows AFS, NFS, etc. to
     request keys specific to the network namespace of the superblock.

     This also means that the keys in the DNS record cache are
     thenceforth namespaced, provided network filesystems pass the
     appropriate network namespace down into dns_query().

     For DNS, AFS and NFS are good, whilst CIFS and Ceph are not. Other
     cache keyrings, such as idmapper keyrings, also need to set the
     domain tag - for which they need access to the network namespace of
     the superblock"

* tag 'keys-namespace-20190627' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs:
  keys: Pass the network namespace into request_key mechanism
  keys: Network namespace domain tag
  keys: Garbage collect keys for which the domain has been removed
  keys: Include target namespace in match criteria
  keys: Move the user and user-session keyrings to the user_namespace
  keys: Namespace keyring names
  keys: Add a 'recurse' flag for keyring searches
  keys: Cache the hash value to avoid lots of recalculation
  keys: Simplify key description management
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