From: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
To: Alexey Gladkov <[email protected]>
Cc: LKML <[email protected]>,
[email protected],
Kernel Hardening <[email protected]>,
Linux Containers <[email protected]>,
[email protected], Alexey Gladkov <[email protected]>,
Andrew Morton <[email protected]>,
Christian Brauner <[email protected]>,
"Eric W . Biederman" <[email protected]>,
Jann Horn <[email protected]>, Jens Axboe <[email protected]>,
Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>,
Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 3/8] Use atomic_t for ucounts reference counting
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2021 15:02:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202103151426.ED27141@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <59ee3289194cd97d70085cce701bc494bfcb4fd2.1615372955.git.gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 01:01:28PM +0100, Alexey Gladkov wrote:
> The current implementation of the ucounts reference counter requires the
> use of spin_lock. We're going to use get_ucounts() in more performance
> critical areas like a handling of RLIMIT_SIGPENDING.
This really looks like it should be refcount_t. I read the earlier
thread[1] on this, and it's not clear to me that this is a "normal"
condition. I think there was a bug in that version (This appeared
to *instantly* crash at boot with mnt_init() calling alloc_mnt_ns()
calling inc_ucount()). The current code looks like just a "regular"
reference counter of the allocated struct ucounts. Overflow should be
very unexpected, yes? And operating on a "0" ucounts should be a bug
too, right?
> [...]
> +/* 127: arbitrary random number, small enough to assemble well */
> +#define refcount_zero_or_close_to_overflow(ucounts) \
> + ((unsigned int) atomic_read(&ucounts->count) + 127u <= 127u)
Regardless, this should absolutely not have "refcount" as a prefix. I
realize it's only used here, but that's needlessly confusing with regard
to it being atomic_t not refcount_t.
> +struct ucounts *get_ucounts(struct ucounts *ucounts)
> +{
> + if (ucounts) {
> + if (refcount_zero_or_close_to_overflow(ucounts)) {
> + WARN_ONCE(1, "ucounts: counter has reached its maximum value");
> + return NULL;
> + }
> + atomic_inc(&ucounts->count);
> + }
> + return ucounts;
> +}
I feel like this should just be:
refcount_inc_not_zero(&ucounts->count);
Or, to address Linus's comment in the v3 series, change get_ucounts to
not return NULL first -- I can't see why that can ever happen in v8.
-Kees
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/116c7669744404364651e3b380db2d82bb23f983.1610722473.git.gladkov.alexey@gmail.com/
--
Kees Cook
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-15 22:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-10 12:01 [PATCH v8 0/8] Count rlimits in each user namespace Alexey Gladkov
2021-03-10 12:01 ` [PATCH v8 1/8] Increase size of ucounts to atomic_long_t Alexey Gladkov
2021-03-10 12:01 ` [PATCH v8 2/8] Add a reference to ucounts for each cred Alexey Gladkov
2021-03-10 12:01 ` [PATCH v8 3/8] Use atomic_t for ucounts reference counting Alexey Gladkov
2021-03-10 21:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-03-15 22:02 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2021-03-15 22:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-03-16 18:49 ` Kees Cook
2021-03-16 19:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-03-16 19:32 ` Kees Cook
2021-03-10 12:01 ` [PATCH v8 4/8] Reimplement RLIMIT_NPROC on top of ucounts Alexey Gladkov
2021-03-10 12:01 ` [PATCH v8 5/8] Reimplement RLIMIT_MSGQUEUE " Alexey Gladkov
2021-03-10 12:01 ` [PATCH v8 6/8] Reimplement RLIMIT_SIGPENDING " Alexey Gladkov
2021-03-10 12:01 ` [PATCH v8 7/8] Reimplement RLIMIT_MEMLOCK " Alexey Gladkov
2021-03-10 12:01 ` [PATCH v8 8/8] kselftests: Add test to check for rlimit changes in different user namespaces Alexey Gladkov
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