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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>,
	Ricky Zhou <rickyz@chromium.org>, Julien Tinnes <jln@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] user_ns: use correct check for single-threadedness
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 14:35:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150728143504.5aa996ba5955522a19c2d5f1@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150728171500.GA2871@www.outflux.net>

On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 10:15:00 -0700 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:

> From: Ricky Zhou <rickyz@chromium.org>
> 
> Checking mm_users > 1 does not mean a process is multithreaded. For
> example, reading /proc/PID/maps temporarily increments mm_users, allowing
> other processes to (accidentally) interfere with unshare() calls.
> 
> This fixes observed failures of unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER) incorrectly
> returning EINVAL if another processes happened to be simultaneously
> reading the maps file.

Yikes.  current_is_single_threaded() is expensive.  Are we sure this
isn't going to kill someone's workload?


  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-07-28 21:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-28 17:15 [PATCH] user_ns: use correct check for single-threadedness Kees Cook
2015-07-28 18:02 ` Rik van Riel
2015-07-28 18:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-07-28 20:55   ` Ricky Zhou
2015-07-28 21:01     ` Kees Cook
2015-08-05 18:13       ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-08-05 19:40         ` Kees Cook
2015-07-28 21:35 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2015-07-28 21:50   ` Kees Cook
2015-07-28 22:11   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-08-05 11:38     ` Ingo Molnar
2015-08-05 11:53       ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-08-05 13:13         ` Ricky Zhou
2015-08-05 17:23     ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-08-05 18:00       ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-08-05 18:52         ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-08-06 13:06           ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-08-06 13:44             ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-08-12  1:17               ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-08-12 14:40                 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-08-12 15:11                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-08-12  1:22               ` [PATCH 0/2] userns: Creation logic fixes Eric W. Biederman
2015-08-12  1:24                 ` [PATCH 1/2] unshare: Unsharing a thread does not require unsharing a vm Eric W. Biederman
2015-08-12 17:48                   ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-08-12 18:39                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-08-13 12:55                       ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-08-13 15:38                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-08-13 16:17                           ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-08-13 16:27                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-08-13 16:50                               ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-08-14 17:59                                 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-08-12 19:59                     ` [PATCH v2] " Eric W. Biederman
2015-08-13 12:57                       ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-08-13 16:01                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-08-13 16:30                           ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-08-13 16:39                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-08-12  1:25                 ` [PATCH 2/2] userns,pidns: Force thread group sharing, not signal handler sharing Eric W. Biederman
2015-08-12 17:24                   ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-08-12  6:29                 ` [PATCH 0/2] userns: Creation logic fixes Kees Cook
2015-08-06 14:35           ` [PATCH] user_ns: use correct check for single-threadedness Oleg Nesterov
2015-08-06 21:16             ` Eric W. Biederman

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