2021-10-21 16:07:08

by Eric W. Biederman

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Subject: [GIT PULL] ucount fixes for v5.15


Linus,

Please pull the ucount-fixes-for-v5.15 branch from the git tree:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace.git ucount-fixes-for-v5.15

HEAD: 5ebcbe342b1c12fae44b4f83cbeae1520e09857e ucounts: Move get_ucounts from cred_alloc_blank to key_change_session_keyring

There has been one very hard to track down bug in the ucount code that
we have been tracking since roughly v5.14 was released. Alex managed to
find a reliable reproducer a few days ago and then I was able to
instrument the code and figure out what the issue was.

It turns out the sigqueue_alloc single atomic operation optimization did
not play nicely with ucounts multiple level rlimits. It turned out that
either sigqueue_alloc or sigqueue_free could be operating on multiple
levels and trigger the conditions for the optimization on more than one
level at the same time.

To deal with that situation I have introduced inc_rlimit_get_ucounts
and dec_rlimit_put_ucounts that just focuses on the optimization and
the rlimit and ucount changes.

While looking into the big bug I found I couple of other little issues
so I am including those fixes here as well.


When I have time I would very much like to dig into process ownership of
the shared signal queue and see if we could pick a single owner for the
entire queue so that all of the rlimits can count to that owner. Which
should entirely remove the need to call get_ucounts and put_ucounts
in sigqueue_alloc and sigqueue_free. It is difficult because Linux
unlike POSIX supports setuid that works on a single thread.

Eric W. Biederman (4):
ucounts: Fix signal ucount refcounting
ucounts: Pair inc_rlimit_ucounts with dec_rlimit_ucoutns in commit_creds
ucounts: Proper error handling in set_cred_ucounts
ucounts: Move get_ucounts from cred_alloc_blank to key_change_session_keyring

kernel/cred.c | 9 ++++-----
security/keys/process_keys.c | 8 ++++++++
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Eric


2021-10-22 03:39:15

by Linus Torvalds

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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] ucount fixes for v5.15

On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 6:04 AM Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> kernel/cred.c | 9 ++++-----
> security/keys/process_keys.c | 8 ++++++++
> 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

That's not remotely the right diffstat.

What's going on?

The shortlog was correct, and I pulled the branch, because everything
else looked ok, but that diffstat in the pull request was some
complete fantasy.

If I were to guess, I think the diffstat may be everything _but_ that
first ("ucounts: Fix signal ucount refcounting") fix. I just don't see
how/why you'd get that as part of the pull request.

Linus

Linus

2021-10-22 05:12:49

by pr-tracker-bot

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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] ucount fixes for v5.15

The pull request you sent on Thu, 21 Oct 2021 11:02:14 -0500:

> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace.git ucount-fixes-for-v5.15

has been merged into torvalds/linux.git:
https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/9d235ac01f54e8f8c1d967b25ac29e4313a41c5c

Thank you!

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2021-10-22 15:04:42

by Eric W. Biederman

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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] ucount fixes for v5.15

Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> writes:

> On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 6:04 AM Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> kernel/cred.c | 9 ++++-----
>> security/keys/process_keys.c | 8 ++++++++
>> 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> That's not remotely the right diffstat.
>
> What's going on?

Sigh. I sent the diffstat from when I sent the additional patches
out for review instead of the diffstat for the entire branch I was
asking you to pull.

I really should have named things differently on my end when I sent
the additional changes out for review.

The correct diffstat should have been.

include/linux/user_namespace.h | 2 ++
kernel/cred.c | 9 ++++----
kernel/signal.c | 25 ++++++---------------
kernel/ucount.c | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
security/keys/process_keys.c | 8 +++++++
5 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)


> The shortlog was correct, and I pulled the branch, because everything
> else looked ok, but that diffstat in the pull request was some
> complete fantasy.
>
> If I were to guess, I think the diffstat may be everything _but_ that
> first ("ucounts: Fix signal ucount refcounting") fix. I just don't see
> how/why you'd get that as part of the pull request.

You are exactly right.

My apologies for the confusion.
Eric