Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 Dec 2018 12:09:37 +0100 | From | Christian Brauner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] binderfs: implement "max" mount option |
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On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 03:35:49PM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote: > Since binderfs can be mounted by userns root in non-initial user namespaces > some precautions are in order. First, a way to set a maximum on the number > of binder devices that can be allocated per binderfs instance and second, a > way to reserve a reasonable chunk of binderfs devices for the initial ipc > namespace. > A first approach as seen in [1] used sysctls similiar to devpts but was > shown to be flawed (cf. [2] and [3]) since some aspects were unneeded. This > is an alternative approach which avoids sysctls completely and instead > switches to a single mount option. > > Starting with this commit binderfs instances can be mounted with a limit on > the number of binder devices that can be allocated. The max=<count> mount > option serves as a per-instance limit. If max=<count> is set then only > <count> number of binder devices can be allocated in this binderfs > instance. > > This allows to safely bind-mount binderfs instances into unprivileged user > namespaces since userns root in a non-initial user namespace cannot change > the mount option as long as it does not own the mount namespace the > binderfs mount was created in and hence cannot drain the host of minor > device numbers > > [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181221133909.18794-1-christian@brauner.io/ > [2]; https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181221163316.GA8517@kroah.com/ > [3]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHRSSEx+gDVW4fKKK8oZNAir9G5icJLyodO8hykv3O0O1jt2FQ@mail.gmail.com/ > [4]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181221192044.5yvfnuri7gdop4rs@brauner.io/ > > Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Right, I forgot to ask. Do we still have time to land this alongside the other patches in 4.21? :)
Christian
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