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>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/user_namespace.c b/kernel/user_namespace.c
index 2b042c42fbc4..24f8ec3b64d8 100644
--- a/kernel/user_namespace.c
+++ b/kernel/user_namespace.c
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ int create_user_ns(struct cred *new)
                 return ret;
         }
 
-        kref_init(&ns->kref);
+        atomic_set(&ns->count, 1);
         /* Leave the new->user_ns reference with the new user namespace. */
         ns->parent = parent_ns;
         ns->owner = owner;
@@ -104,15 +104,16 @@ int unshare_userns(unsigned long unshare_flags, struct cred **new_cred)
         return create_user_ns(cred);
 }
 
-void free_user_ns(struct kref *kref)
+void free_user_ns(struct user_namespace *ns)
 {
-        struct user_namespace *parent, *ns =
-                container_of(kref, struct user_namespace, kref);
+        struct user_namespace *parent;
 
-        parent = ns->parent;
-        proc_free_inum(ns->proc_inum);
-        kmem_cache_free(user_ns_cachep, ns);
-        put_user_ns(parent);
+        do {
+                parent = ns->parent;
+                proc_free_inum(ns->proc_inum);
+                kmem_cache_free(user_ns_cachep, ns);
+                ns = parent;
+        } while (atomic_dec_and_test(&parent->count));
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(free_user_ns);