Re: [RFC v1 00/14] Bus1 Kernel Message Bus

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Sat Oct 29 2016 - 16:26:19 EST


On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 10:34:30PM +0200, David Herrmann wrote:
> Long story short: We have uid<->uid quotas so far, which prevent DoS
> attacks, unless you get access to a ridiculous amount of local UIDs.
> Details on which resources are accounted can be found in the wiki [1].

Does only root user_ns uid count as separate or per-ns too?

In first case we will have vitually unbounded access to UIDs.

The second case can cap number of user namespaces a user can create while
using bus1 inside.

Or am I missing something?

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Kirill A. Shutemov