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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2020-08-17 11:07:28 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-08-17 09:39:18 -0700
commit29e44f4535faa71a70827af3639b5e6762d8f02a (patch)
tree4775719cd867602b8aea88ac16f4d627d1a122e5 /kernel
parent9123e3a74ec7b934a4a099e98af6a61c2f80bbf5 (diff)
downloadlinux-29e44f4535faa71a70827af3639b5e6762d8f02a.tar.gz
watch_queue: Limit the number of watches a user can hold
Impose a limit on the number of watches that a user can hold so that they can't use this mechanism to fill up all the available memory. This is done by putting a counter in user_struct that's incremented when a watch is allocated and decreased when it is released. If the number exceeds the RLIMIT_NOFILE limit, the watch is rejected with EAGAIN. This can be tested by the following means: (1) Create a watch queue and attach it to fd 5 in the program given - in this case, bash: keyctl watch_session /tmp/nlog /tmp/gclog 5 bash (2) In the shell, set the maximum number of files to, say, 99: ulimit -n 99 (3) Add 200 keyrings: for ((i=0; i<200; i++)); do keyctl newring a$i @s || break; done (4) Try to watch all of the keyrings: for ((i=0; i<200; i++)); do echo $i; keyctl watch_add 5 %:a$i || break; done This should fail when the number of watches belonging to the user hits 99. (5) Remove all the keyrings and all of those watches should go away: for ((i=0; i<200; i++)); do keyctl unlink %:a$i; done (6) Kill off the watch queue by exiting the shell spawned by watch_session. Fixes: c73be61cede5 ("pipe: Add general notification queue support") Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/watch_queue.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/watch_queue.c b/kernel/watch_queue.c
index f74020f6bd9d..0ef8f65bd2d7 100644
--- a/kernel/watch_queue.c
+++ b/kernel/watch_queue.c
@@ -393,6 +393,7 @@ static void free_watch(struct rcu_head *rcu)
struct watch *watch = container_of(rcu, struct watch, rcu);
put_watch_queue(rcu_access_pointer(watch->queue));
+ atomic_dec(&watch->cred->user->nr_watches);
put_cred(watch->cred);
}
@@ -452,6 +453,13 @@ int add_watch_to_object(struct watch *watch, struct watch_list *wlist)
watch->cred = get_current_cred();
rcu_assign_pointer(watch->watch_list, wlist);
+ if (atomic_inc_return(&watch->cred->user->nr_watches) >
+ task_rlimit(current, RLIMIT_NOFILE)) {
+ atomic_dec(&watch->cred->user->nr_watches);
+ put_cred(watch->cred);
+ return -EAGAIN;
+ }
+
spin_lock_bh(&wqueue->lock);
kref_get(&wqueue->usage);
kref_get(&watch->usage);