Thread (14 messages) 14 messages, 5 authors, 2018-11-07

Re: [PATCH v6 1/1] ns: add binfmt_misc to the user namespace

From: Laurent Vivier <hidden>
Date: 2018-10-16 18:44:02
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Le 16/10/2018 à 12:13, Rasmus Villemoes a écrit :
On 2018-10-10 18:14, Laurent Vivier wrote:
quoted
+	/* create a new binfmt namespace
+	 * if we are not in the first user namespace
+	 * but the binfmt namespace is the first one
+	 */
+	if (READ_ONCE(ns->binfmt_ns) == NULL) {
+		struct binfmt_namespace *new_ns;
+
+		new_ns = kmalloc(sizeof(struct binfmt_namespace),
+				 GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (new_ns == NULL)
+			return -ENOMEM;
+		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&new_ns->entries);
+		new_ns->enabled = 1;
+		rwlock_init(&new_ns->entries_lock);
+		new_ns->bm_mnt = NULL;
+		new_ns->entry_count = 0;
+		/* ensure new_ns is completely initialized before sharing it */
+		smp_wmb();
+		WRITE_ONCE(ns->binfmt_ns, new_ns);
+	}
If ns->binfmt_ns can really change under us (given you use READ_ONCE),
what prevents two instances of this code running at the same time, in
which case one of them would leak its new_ns instance? Also, there
See
https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg1782780.html
doesn't seem to be any smp_rmb() buddy to that wmb(), I don't think
that's implied by READ_ONCE() in binfmt_ns().
See
https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg1783049.html

Thanks,
Laurent
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