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Resizable hash-map updates and deletions must not perform full special-field destruction in their caller context. In particular, a referenced kptr must remain attached to the allocation until the memory allocator destructor can release it safely. Add separate coverage for both affected paths. The update test stores a task kptr, replaces the ordinary value bytes with BPF_EXIST, and verifies that the kptr survived. The delete test removes an element and exchanges its kptr through the still-valid map-value pointer before the allocation is reclaimed. Both cases observe a NULL kptr when rhtab uses bpf_obj_free_fields(). They recover and release the reference after rhtab switches to cancellation semantics. Signed-off-by: Nuoqi Gui <gnq25@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn> [ kkd: Split update and delete coverage and rewrote the commit log ] Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260904104203.345917-5-memxor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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+=================================
+Documentation for /proc/sys/user/
+=================================
+
+kernel version 4.9.0
+
+Copyright (c) 2016 Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+This file contains the documentation for the sysctl files in
+/proc/sys/user.
+
+The files in this directory can be used to override the default
+limits on the number of namespaces and other objects that have
+per user per user namespace limits.
+
+The primary purpose of these limits is to stop programs that
+malfunction and attempt to create a ridiculous number of objects,
+before the malfunction becomes a system wide problem. It is the
+intention that the defaults of these limits are set high enough that
+no program in normal operation should run into these limits.
+
+The creation of per user per user namespace objects are charged to
+the user in the user namespace who created the object and
+verified to be below the per user limit in that user namespace.
+
+The creation of objects is also charged to all of the users
+who created user namespaces the creation of the object happens
+in (user namespaces can be nested) and verified to be below the per user
+limits in the user namespaces of those users.
+
+This recursive counting of created objects ensures that creating a
+user namespace does not allow a user to escape their current limits.
+
+Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/user:
+
+max_cgroup_namespaces
+=====================
+
+ The maximum number of cgroup namespaces that any user in the current
+ user namespace may create.
+
+max_ipc_namespaces
+==================
+
+ The maximum number of ipc namespaces that any user in the current
+ user namespace may create.
+
+max_mnt_namespaces
+==================
+
+ The maximum number of mount namespaces that any user in the current
+ user namespace may create.
+
+max_net_namespaces
+==================
+
+ The maximum number of network namespaces that any user in the
+ current user namespace may create.
+
+max_pid_namespaces
+==================
+
+ The maximum number of pid namespaces that any user in the current
+ user namespace may create.
+
+max_time_namespaces
+===================
+
+ The maximum number of time namespaces that any user in the current
+ user namespace may create.
+
+max_user_namespaces
+===================
+
+ The maximum number of user namespaces that any user in the current
+ user namespace may create.
+
+max_uts_namespaces
+==================
+
+ The maximum number of user namespaces that any user in the current
+ user namespace may create.