Re: [PATCH v2 00/10] userns: sysctl limits for namespaces

Hello Eric,

On 07/21/2016 06:39 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

This patchset addresses two use cases:
- Implement a sane upper bound on the number of namespaces.
- Provide a way for sandboxes to limit the attack surface from
  namespaces.

The maximum sane case I can imagine is if every process is a fat
process, so I set the maximum number of namespaces to the maximum
number of threads.

I make these limits recursive and per user namespace so that a
usernamespace root can reduce the limits further.  If a user namespace
root raises the limit the limit in the parent namespace will be honored.

I have cut this implementation to the bare minimum needed to achieve
these objectives.

Does anyone know if there is a proper error code to return for resource
limit exceeded?  I am currently using -EUSERS or -ENFILE but both of
those feel a little wrong.

ENFILE certainly seems weird. I suppose my first question is: why two
different errors?

Some alternatives you might want to consider: E2BIG, EOVERFLOW,
or (maybe) ERANGE.

Cheers,

Michael