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Eric W. Biederman c61a2810a2 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 <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Pointed-out-by: Vasily Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2013-01-26 22:11:41 -08:00
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acpi PCI changes for the v3.8 merge window: 2012-12-13 12:14:47 -08:00
asm-generic These are a few cleanups for asm-generic: 2012-12-21 16:39:08 -08:00
clocksource
crypto crypto: cast5/cast6 - move lookup tables to shared module 2012-12-06 17:16:26 +08:00
drm Merge branch 'drm-intel-fixes' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~danvet/drm-intel into drm-next 2012-12-16 06:05:03 +00:00
keys
linux userns: Avoid recursion in put_user_ns 2013-01-26 22:11:41 -08:00
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net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2012-12-19 20:29:15 -08:00
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scsi SCSI misc on 20121212 2012-12-13 19:20:31 -08:00
sound ASoC: More updates for v3.8 2012-12-17 15:40:55 +01:00
target target/iscsi_target: Add NodeACL tags for initiator group support 2012-12-13 14:18:09 -08:00
trace mm: add a __GFP_KMEMCG flag 2012-12-18 15:02:12 -08:00
uapi Miscellaneous device-mapper fixes, cleanups and performance improvements. 2012-12-21 17:08:06 -08:00
video Merge branch 'omap-for-v3.8/fixes-for-merge-window' into omap-for-v3.8/fixes-for-merge-window-v2 2012-12-16 11:28:10 -08:00
xen Bugfixes: 2012-12-18 12:26:54 -08:00
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