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| author | Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> | 2026-09-09 11:29:53 +0200 |
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| committer | Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> | 2026-09-10 08:43:35 +0900 |
| commit | d22c3e0088e85be8131f7a9283f759cdbb20726d (patch) | |
| tree | 9668df2aa27b26f850d3ba5ba1287e443803675c /Documentation/admin-guide/namespaces | |
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selftests/ftrace: Fix unique symbol check in kprobe_non_uniq_symbol.tcgrafted
The current regex also matches symbols in modules, which makes the
test fail on s390 where name_show is present only once in the kernel,
but also multiple times in modules:
000001b1401cdc20 t name_show
000001b0c05e6c40 t name_show [mdev]
000001b0c0495f30 t name_show [i2c_core]
Fix this by changing the regular expression to only match the function
name.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260909092954.2200558-1-svens@linux.ibm.com/
Fixes: 03b80ff8023a ("selftests/ftrace: Add new test case which checks non unique symbol")
Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide/namespaces')
3 files changed, 72 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/namespaces/compatibility-list.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/namespaces/compatibility-list.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..318800b2a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/namespaces/compatibility-list.rst @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +============================= +Namespaces compatibility list +============================= + +This document contains the information about the problems user +may have when creating tasks living in different namespaces. + +Here's the summary. This matrix shows the known problems, that +occur when tasks share some namespace (the columns) while living +in different other namespaces (the rows): + +==== === === === === ==== === +- UTS IPC VFS PID User Net +==== === === === === ==== === +UTS X +IPC X 1 +VFS X +PID 1 1 X +User 2 2 X +Net X +==== === === === === ==== === + +1. Both the IPC and the PID namespaces provide IDs to address + object inside the kernel. E.g. semaphore with IPCID or + process group with pid. + + In both cases, tasks shouldn't try exposing this ID to some + other task living in a different namespace via a shared filesystem + or IPC shmem/message. The fact is that this ID is only valid + within the namespace it was obtained in and may refer to some + other object in another namespace. + +2. Intentionally, two equal user IDs in different user namespaces + should not be equal from the VFS point of view. In other + words, user 10 in one user namespace shouldn't have the same + access permissions to files, belonging to user 10 in another + namespace. + + The same is true for the IPC namespaces being shared - two users + from different user namespaces should not access the same IPC objects + even having equal UIDs. + + But currently this is not so. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/namespaces/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/namespaces/index.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..384f2e0f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/namespaces/index.rst @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +========== +Namespaces +========== + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + compatibility-list + resource-control diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/namespaces/resource-control.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/namespaces/resource-control.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..553a44803 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/namespaces/resource-control.rst @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +==================================== +User namespaces and resource control +==================================== + +The kernel contains many kinds of objects that either don't have +individual limits or that have limits which are ineffective when +a set of processes is allowed to switch their UID. On a system +where the admins don't trust their users or their users' programs, +user namespaces expose the system to potential misuse of resources. + +In order to mitigate this, we recommend that admins enable memory +control groups on any system that enables user namespaces. +Furthermore, we recommend that admins configure the memory control +groups to limit the maximum memory usable by any untrusted user. + +Memory control groups can be configured by installing the libcgroup +package present on most distros editing /etc/cgrules.conf, +/etc/cgconfig.conf and setting up libpam-cgroup. |
