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

From: Alexey Gladkov
Date: Wed Jul 21 2021 - 08:43:06 EST


On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 02:32:38PM +0200, Sven Schnelle wrote:
> Alexey Gladkov <legion@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> Thanks. I'll change the code to use SYSCTL_INT_MAX instead and send a
> v2.
>
> >> 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;
>
> Guess this should also stay at INT_MAX?

Yes.

> >> }
> >> 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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Rgrds, legion