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Date:   Tue, 07 Apr 2020 10:41:59 -0000
From:   "tip-bot2 for Dmitry Safonov" <tip-bot2@...utronix.de>
To:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
        Dmitry Safonov <dima@...sta.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Andrei Vagin <avagin@...il.com>,
        Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>,
        stable@...nel.org, x86 <x86@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [tip: timers/urgent] time/namespace: Add max_time_namespaces ucount

The following commit has been merged into the timers/urgent branch of tip:

Commit-ID:     eeec26d5da8248ea4e240b8795bb4364213d3247
Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/eeec26d5da8248ea4e240b8795bb4364213d3247
Author:        Dmitry Safonov <dima@...sta.com>
AuthorDate:    Mon, 06 Apr 2020 18:13:42 +01:00
Committer:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CommitterDate: Tue, 07 Apr 2020 12:37:21 +02:00

time/namespace: Add max_time_namespaces ucount

Michael noticed that userns limit for number of time namespaces is missing.

Furthermore, time namespace introduced UCOUNT_TIME_NAMESPACES, but didn't
introduce an array member in user_table[]. It would make array's
initialisation OOB write, but by luck the user_table array has an excessive
empty member (all accesses to the array are limited with UCOUNT_COUNTS - so
it silently reuses the last free member.

Fixes user-visible regression: max_inotify_instances by reason of the
missing UCOUNT_ENTRY() has limited max number of namespaces instead of the
number of inotify instances.

Fixes: 769071ac9f20 ("ns: Introduce Time Namespace")
Reported-by: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@...sta.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Acked-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@...il.com>
Acked-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>
Cc: stable@...nel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200406171342.128733-1-dima@arista.com

---
 Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/user.rst | 6 ++++++
 kernel/ucount.c                           | 1 +
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/user.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/user.rst
index 650eaa0..c458245 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/user.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/user.rst
@@ -65,6 +65,12 @@ 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
 ===================
 
diff --git a/kernel/ucount.c b/kernel/ucount.c
index a53cc2b..29c60eb 100644
--- a/kernel/ucount.c
+++ b/kernel/ucount.c
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ static struct ctl_table user_table[] = {
 	UCOUNT_ENTRY("max_net_namespaces"),
 	UCOUNT_ENTRY("max_mnt_namespaces"),
 	UCOUNT_ENTRY("max_cgroup_namespaces"),
+	UCOUNT_ENTRY("max_time_namespaces"),
 #ifdef CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER
 	UCOUNT_ENTRY("max_inotify_instances"),
 	UCOUNT_ENTRY("max_inotify_watches"),