From 2b97956af60810cd382b86b9ce9aea421b889861 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nuoqi Gui Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2026 12:41:55 +0200 Subject: selftests/bpf: Test rhtab kptr cancellation semantics 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 [ kkd: Split update and delete coverage and rewrote the commit log ] Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260904104203.345917-5-memxor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov --- .../admin-guide/namespaces/compatibility-list.rst | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/admin-guide/namespaces/index.rst | 11 ++++++ .../admin-guide/namespaces/resource-control.rst | 18 +++++++++ 3 files changed, 72 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/admin-guide/namespaces/compatibility-list.rst create mode 100644 Documentation/admin-guide/namespaces/index.rst create mode 100644 Documentation/admin-guide/namespaces/resource-control.rst (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide/namespaces') 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. -- cgit v1.3.1