Re: [PATCH] ucounts: add missing data type changes

From: Alexey Gladkov
Date: Wed Jul 21 2021 - 08:28:05 EST


On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 01:58:00PM +0200, Sven Schnelle wrote:
> commit f9c82a4ea89c3 ("Increase size of ucounts to atomic_long_t")
> changed the data type of ucounts/ucounts_max to long, but missed to
> adjust a few other places. This is noticeable on big endian platforms
> from user space because the /proc/sys/user/max_*_names files all
> contain 0.

I didn't increase them because I didn't want to increase the maximum
number of namespaces.

Your patch not only fixes the described problem, but also increases the
maximum number of namespaces.

> Fixes: f9c82a4ea89c ("Increase size of ucounts to atomic_long_t")
> Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c | 11 +++++++----
> kernel/ucount.c | 18 ++++++++++--------
> kernel/user_namespace.c | 2 +-
> 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
> index 64864fb40b40..995379ddce86 100644
> --- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
> +++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
> @@ -54,22 +54,25 @@ static int fanotify_max_queued_events __read_mostly;
>
> #include <linux/sysctl.h>
>
> +static unsigned long long_max = LONG_MAX;

I think this should be INT_MAX.

> struct ctl_table fanotify_table[] = {
> {
> .procname = "max_user_groups",
> .data = &init_user_ns.ucount_max[UCOUNT_FANOTIFY_GROUPS],
> - .maxlen = sizeof(int),
> + .maxlen = sizeof(long),
> .mode = 0644,
> - .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax,
> + .proc_handler = proc_doulongvec_minmax,
> .extra1 = SYSCTL_ZERO,
> + .extra2 = &long_max,
> },
> {
> .procname = "max_user_marks",
> .data = &init_user_ns.ucount_max[UCOUNT_FANOTIFY_MARKS],
> - .maxlen = sizeof(int),
> + .maxlen = sizeof(long),
> .mode = 0644,
> - .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax,
> + .proc_handler = proc_doulongvec_minmax,
> .extra1 = SYSCTL_ZERO,
> + .extra2 = &long_max,
> },
> {
> .procname = "max_queued_events",
> diff --git a/kernel/ucount.c b/kernel/ucount.c
> index 87799e2379bd..681ea1b1a06f 100644
> --- a/kernel/ucount.c
> +++ b/kernel/ucount.c
> @@ -58,14 +58,16 @@ static struct ctl_table_root set_root = {
> .permissions = set_permissions,
> };
>
> -#define UCOUNT_ENTRY(name) \
> - { \
> - .procname = name, \
> - .maxlen = sizeof(int), \
> - .mode = 0644, \
> - .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax, \
> - .extra1 = SYSCTL_ZERO, \
> - .extra2 = SYSCTL_INT_MAX, \
> +static unsigned long long_max = LONG_MAX;
> +
> +#define UCOUNT_ENTRY(name) \
> + { \
> + .procname = name, \
> + .maxlen = sizeof(long), \
> + .mode = 0644, \
> + .proc_handler = proc_doulongvec_minmax, \
> + .extra1 = SYSCTL_ZERO, \
> + .extra2 = &long_max, \
> }
> static struct ctl_table user_table[] = {
> UCOUNT_ENTRY("max_user_namespaces"),
> diff --git a/kernel/user_namespace.c b/kernel/user_namespace.c
> index ef82d401dde8..d8ad4c261253 100644
> --- a/kernel/user_namespace.c
> +++ b/kernel/user_namespace.c
> @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ int create_user_ns(struct cred *new)
> ns->group = group;
> INIT_WORK(&ns->work, free_user_ns);
> for (i = 0; i < MAX_PER_NAMESPACE_UCOUNTS; i++) {
> - ns->ucount_max[i] = INT_MAX;
> + ns->ucount_max[i] = LONG_MAX;
> }
> set_rlimit_ucount_max(ns, UCOUNT_RLIMIT_NPROC, rlimit(RLIMIT_NPROC));
> set_rlimit_ucount_max(ns, UCOUNT_RLIMIT_MSGQUEUE, rlimit(RLIMIT_MSGQUEUE));
> --
> 2.25.1
>

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