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authorPavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>2007-09-19 01:46:45 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-09-19 14:24:18 -0400
commit28f300d23674fa01ae747c66ce861d4ee6aebe8c (patch)
tree52ea69a57a89760d7060597690cb289d049eb4d0 /kernel/user.c
parent735de2230f09741077a645a913de0a04b10208bf (diff)
Fix user namespace exiting OOPs
It turned out, that the user namespace is released during the do_exit() in exit_task_namespaces(), but the struct user_struct is released only during the put_task_struct(), i.e. MUCH later. On debug kernels with poisoned slabs this will cause the oops in uid_hash_remove() because the head of the chain, which resides inside the struct user_namespace, will be already freed and poisoned. Since the uid hash itself is required only when someone can search it, i.e. when the namespace is alive, we can safely unhash all the user_struct-s from it during the namespace exiting. The subsequent free_uid() will complete the user_struct destruction. For example simple program #include <sched.h> char stack[2 * 1024 * 1024]; int f(void *foo) { return 0; } int main(void) { clone(f, stack + 1 * 1024 * 1024, 0x10000000, 0); return 0; } run on kernel with CONFIG_USER_NS turned on will oops the kernel immediately. This was spotted during OpenVZ kernel testing. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org> Acked-by: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/user.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/user.c26
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/user.c b/kernel/user.c
index add57c7e4c07..9ca2848fc356 100644
--- a/kernel/user.c
+++ b/kernel/user.c
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ static inline void uid_hash_insert(struct user_struct *up, struct hlist_head *ha
62 62
63static inline void uid_hash_remove(struct user_struct *up) 63static inline void uid_hash_remove(struct user_struct *up)
64{ 64{
65 hlist_del(&up->uidhash_node); 65 hlist_del_init(&up->uidhash_node);
66} 66}
67 67
68static inline struct user_struct *uid_hash_find(uid_t uid, struct hlist_head *hashent) 68static inline struct user_struct *uid_hash_find(uid_t uid, struct hlist_head *hashent)
@@ -199,6 +199,30 @@ void switch_uid(struct user_struct *new_user)
199 suid_keys(current); 199 suid_keys(current);
200} 200}
201 201
202void release_uids(struct user_namespace *ns)
203{
204 int i;
205 unsigned long flags;
206 struct hlist_head *head;
207 struct hlist_node *nd;
208
209 spin_lock_irqsave(&uidhash_lock, flags);
210 /*
211 * collapse the chains so that the user_struct-s will
212 * be still alive, but not in hashes. subsequent free_uid()
213 * will free them.
214 */
215 for (i = 0; i < UIDHASH_SZ; i++) {
216 head = ns->uidhash_table + i;
217 while (!hlist_empty(head)) {
218 nd = head->first;
219 hlist_del_init(nd);
220 }
221 }
222 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&uidhash_lock, flags);
223
224 free_uid(ns->root_user);
225}
202 226
203static int __init uid_cache_init(void) 227static int __init uid_cache_init(void)
204{ 228{