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<title>mm/secretmem: properly account locked pages</title>
<updated>2026-09-03T17:56:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)</name>
<email>ljs@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-26T16:30:35+00:00</published>
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secretmem accounts folios by treating memory as if it were mlock()'d and
thus limited by the RLIMIT_MEMLOCK limit.

However the folios are unevictable and remain so until the inode is
evicted, eliminating usual mlock() semantics - mapping folios then
unmapping them does not clear their unevictable state, since it depends on
AS_UNEVICTABLE, not PG_mlocked.

A user can therefore easily work around the RLIMIT_MEMLOCK limit - simply
map then unmap and VmLck no longer counts the secretmem range.  Worse,
folios are not accounted in the process's RSS, meaning the OOM killer
won't know to kill the process.

Repeatedly mapping/unmapping (or forking) can then result in the
consumption of all available system memory with unevictable folios and
cause system instability.

A secretmem fd can be passed between processes and over fork so a
per-process limit simply does not make sense, so follow the precedent set
by io_uring, perf, skbuff, iommufd and xdp by tracking the number of
locked pages in user_struct-&gt;locked_vm.

Since the scope tracked is actually inode lifetime, the RLIMIT_MEMLOCK
applies per-user not per-process, so it doesn't make sense to bypass for
users with CAP_IPC_LOCK, therefore remove this bypass.

There is simply no reason to carry on marking the mapping as mlock()'d
since it's misleading and the lifecycle is now correctly handled, so
remove this too.

Note that secretmem does not support any form of truncation (including
hole punching) and the folios are unreclaimable, so the folios need only
be accounted on fault and unaccounted on inode destruction.

__secretmem_account_pages() is more or less a duplicate of the code that
io_uring etc.  use, but since this is a bug fix that needs backporting,
defer any de-duplication efforts to a follow-up.

test_mlock_limit() asserts mlock_future_ok() on mmap(), however this has
been removed, so remove the test altogether for the fix.  A new test will
be sent separately for upstream.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260826-secretmem-accounting-v3-1-94cb04399510@kernel.org
Fixes: 1507f51255c9 ("mm: introduce memfd_secret system call to create "secret" memory areas")
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) &lt;ljs@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Daehyeon Ko &lt;4ncienth@gmail.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20260813225328.2010303-1-4ncienth@gmail.com/
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Daehyeon Ko &lt;4ncienth@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Hagen Paul Pfeifer &lt;hagen@jauu.net&gt;
Cc: Jakub Kacinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;james.bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer &lt;hawk@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: John Fastabend &lt;john.fastabend@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Liam R. Howlett &lt;liam@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@fomichev.me&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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secretmem accounts folios by treating memory as if it were mlock()'d and
thus limited by the RLIMIT_MEMLOCK limit.

However the folios are unevictable and remain so until the inode is
evicted, eliminating usual mlock() semantics - mapping folios then
unmapping them does not clear their unevictable state, since it depends on
AS_UNEVICTABLE, not PG_mlocked.

A user can therefore easily work around the RLIMIT_MEMLOCK limit - simply
map then unmap and VmLck no longer counts the secretmem range.  Worse,
folios are not accounted in the process's RSS, meaning the OOM killer
won't know to kill the process.

Repeatedly mapping/unmapping (or forking) can then result in the
consumption of all available system memory with unevictable folios and
cause system instability.

A secretmem fd can be passed between processes and over fork so a
per-process limit simply does not make sense, so follow the precedent set
by io_uring, perf, skbuff, iommufd and xdp by tracking the number of
locked pages in user_struct-&gt;locked_vm.

Since the scope tracked is actually inode lifetime, the RLIMIT_MEMLOCK
applies per-user not per-process, so it doesn't make sense to bypass for
users with CAP_IPC_LOCK, therefore remove this bypass.

There is simply no reason to carry on marking the mapping as mlock()'d
since it's misleading and the lifecycle is now correctly handled, so
remove this too.

Note that secretmem does not support any form of truncation (including
hole punching) and the folios are unreclaimable, so the folios need only
be accounted on fault and unaccounted on inode destruction.

__secretmem_account_pages() is more or less a duplicate of the code that
io_uring etc.  use, but since this is a bug fix that needs backporting,
defer any de-duplication efforts to a follow-up.

test_mlock_limit() asserts mlock_future_ok() on mmap(), however this has
been removed, so remove the test altogether for the fix.  A new test will
be sent separately for upstream.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260826-secretmem-accounting-v3-1-94cb04399510@kernel.org
Fixes: 1507f51255c9 ("mm: introduce memfd_secret system call to create "secret" memory areas")
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) &lt;ljs@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Daehyeon Ko &lt;4ncienth@gmail.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20260813225328.2010303-1-4ncienth@gmail.com/
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Daehyeon Ko &lt;4ncienth@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Hagen Paul Pfeifer &lt;hagen@jauu.net&gt;
Cc: Jakub Kacinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;james.bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer &lt;hawk@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: John Fastabend &lt;john.fastabend@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Liam R. Howlett &lt;liam@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@fomichev.me&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kernel/user: Allow user_struct::locked_vm to be usable for iommufd</title>
<updated>2022-12-01T00:16:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Gunthorpe</name>
<email>jgg@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-29T20:29:30+00:00</published>
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Following the pattern of io_uring, perf, skb, and bpf, iommfd will use
user-&gt;locked_vm for accounting pinned pages. Ensure the value is included
in the struct and export free_uid() as iommufd is modular.

user-&gt;locked_vm is the good accounting to use for ulimit because it is
per-user, and the security sandboxing of locked pages is not supposed to
be per-process. Other places (vfio, vdpa and infiniband) have used
mm-&gt;pinned_vm and/or mm-&gt;locked_vm for accounting pinned pages, but this
is only per-process and inconsistent with the new FOLL_LONGTERM users in
the kernel.

Concurrent work is underway to try to put this in a cgroup, so everything
can be consistent and the kernel can provide a FOLL_LONGTERM limit that
actually provides security.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/7-v6-a196d26f289e+11787-iommufd_jgg@nvidia.com
Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian &lt;kevin.tian@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger &lt;eric.auger@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nicolin Chen &lt;nicolinc@nvidia.com&gt;
Tested-by: Yi Liu &lt;yi.l.liu@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Lixiao Yang &lt;lixiao.yang@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Matthew Rosato &lt;mjrosato@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
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Following the pattern of io_uring, perf, skb, and bpf, iommfd will use
user-&gt;locked_vm for accounting pinned pages. Ensure the value is included
in the struct and export free_uid() as iommufd is modular.

user-&gt;locked_vm is the good accounting to use for ulimit because it is
per-user, and the security sandboxing of locked pages is not supposed to
be per-process. Other places (vfio, vdpa and infiniband) have used
mm-&gt;pinned_vm and/or mm-&gt;locked_vm for accounting pinned pages, but this
is only per-process and inconsistent with the new FOLL_LONGTERM users in
the kernel.

Concurrent work is underway to try to put this in a cgroup, so everything
can be consistent and the kernel can provide a FOLL_LONGTERM limit that
actually provides security.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/7-v6-a196d26f289e+11787-iommufd_jgg@nvidia.com
Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian &lt;kevin.tian@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger &lt;eric.auger@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nicolin Chen &lt;nicolinc@nvidia.com&gt;
Tested-by: Yi Liu &lt;yi.l.liu@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Lixiao Yang &lt;lixiao.yang@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Matthew Rosato &lt;mjrosato@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: s390: pci: provide routines for enabling/disabling interrupt forwarding</title>
<updated>2022-07-11T07:54:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Rosato</name>
<email>mjrosato@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-06T20:33:19+00:00</published>
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These routines will be wired into a kvm ioctl in order to respond to
requests to enable / disable a device for Adapter Event Notifications /
Adapter Interuption Forwarding.

Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Niklas Schnelle &lt;schnelle@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthew Rosato &lt;mjrosato@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220606203325.110625-16-mjrosato@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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These routines will be wired into a kvm ioctl in order to respond to
requests to enable / disable a device for Adapter Event Notifications /
Adapter Interuption Forwarding.

Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Niklas Schnelle &lt;schnelle@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthew Rosato &lt;mjrosato@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220606203325.110625-16-mjrosato@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@linux.ibm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs/epoll: use a per-cpu counter for user's watches count</title>
<updated>2021-09-08T18:50:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-08T03:00:00+00:00</published>
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This counter tracks the number of watches a user has, to compare against
the 'max_user_watches' limit. This causes a scalability bottleneck on
SPECjbb2015 on large systems as there is only one user. Changing to a
per-cpu counter increases throughput of the benchmark by about 30% on a
16-socket, &gt; 1000 thread system.

[rdunlap@infradead.org: fix build errors in kernel/user.c when CONFIG_EPOLL=n]
[npiggin@gmail.com: move ifdefs into wrapper functions, slightly improve panic message]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1628051945.fens3r99ox.astroid@bobo.none
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak user_epoll_alloc(), per Guenter]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210804191421.GA1900577@roeck-us.net

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210802032013.2751916-1-npiggin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@ozlabs.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This counter tracks the number of watches a user has, to compare against
the 'max_user_watches' limit. This causes a scalability bottleneck on
SPECjbb2015 on large systems as there is only one user. Changing to a
per-cpu counter increases throughput of the benchmark by about 30% on a
16-socket, &gt; 1000 thread system.

[rdunlap@infradead.org: fix build errors in kernel/user.c when CONFIG_EPOLL=n]
[npiggin@gmail.com: move ifdefs into wrapper functions, slightly improve panic message]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1628051945.fens3r99ox.astroid@bobo.none
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak user_epoll_alloc(), per Guenter]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210804191421.GA1900577@roeck-us.net

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210802032013.2751916-1-npiggin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@ozlabs.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2021-06-29T03:39:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-29T03:39:26+00:00</published>
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Pull user namespace rlimit handling update from Eric Biederman:
 "This is the work mainly by Alexey Gladkov to limit rlimits to the
  rlimits of the user that created a user namespace, and to allow users
  to have stricter limits on the resources created within a user
  namespace."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  cred: add missing return error code when set_cred_ucounts() failed
  ucounts: Silence warning in dec_rlimit_ucounts
  ucounts: Set ucount_max to the largest positive value the type can hold
  kselftests: Add test to check for rlimit changes in different user namespaces
  Reimplement RLIMIT_MEMLOCK on top of ucounts
  Reimplement RLIMIT_SIGPENDING on top of ucounts
  Reimplement RLIMIT_MSGQUEUE on top of ucounts
  Reimplement RLIMIT_NPROC on top of ucounts
  Use atomic_t for ucounts reference counting
  Add a reference to ucounts for each cred
  Increase size of ucounts to atomic_long_t
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Pull user namespace rlimit handling update from Eric Biederman:
 "This is the work mainly by Alexey Gladkov to limit rlimits to the
  rlimits of the user that created a user namespace, and to allow users
  to have stricter limits on the resources created within a user
  namespace."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  cred: add missing return error code when set_cred_ucounts() failed
  ucounts: Silence warning in dec_rlimit_ucounts
  ucounts: Set ucount_max to the largest positive value the type can hold
  kselftests: Add test to check for rlimit changes in different user namespaces
  Reimplement RLIMIT_MEMLOCK on top of ucounts
  Reimplement RLIMIT_SIGPENDING on top of ucounts
  Reimplement RLIMIT_MSGQUEUE on top of ucounts
  Reimplement RLIMIT_NPROC on top of ucounts
  Use atomic_t for ucounts reference counting
  Add a reference to ucounts for each cred
  Increase size of ucounts to atomic_long_t
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Reimplement RLIMIT_MEMLOCK on top of ucounts</title>
<updated>2021-04-30T19:14:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Gladkov</name>
<email>legion@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-22T12:27:14+00:00</published>
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The rlimit counter is tied to uid in the user_namespace. This allows
rlimit values to be specified in userns even if they are already
globally exceeded by the user. However, the value of the previous
user_namespaces cannot be exceeded.

Changelog

v11:
* Fix issue found by lkp robot.

v8:
* Fix issues found by lkp-tests project.

v7:
* Keep only ucounts for RLIMIT_MEMLOCK checks instead of struct cred.

v6:
* Fix bug in hugetlb_file_setup() detected by trinity.

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;oliver.sang@intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov &lt;legion@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/970d50c70c71bfd4496e0e8d2a0a32feebebb350.1619094428.git.legion@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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The rlimit counter is tied to uid in the user_namespace. This allows
rlimit values to be specified in userns even if they are already
globally exceeded by the user. However, the value of the previous
user_namespaces cannot be exceeded.

Changelog

v11:
* Fix issue found by lkp robot.

v8:
* Fix issues found by lkp-tests project.

v7:
* Keep only ucounts for RLIMIT_MEMLOCK checks instead of struct cred.

v6:
* Fix bug in hugetlb_file_setup() detected by trinity.

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;oliver.sang@intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov &lt;legion@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/970d50c70c71bfd4496e0e8d2a0a32feebebb350.1619094428.git.legion@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Reimplement RLIMIT_SIGPENDING on top of ucounts</title>
<updated>2021-04-30T19:14:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Gladkov</name>
<email>legion@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-22T12:27:13+00:00</published>
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The rlimit counter is tied to uid in the user_namespace. This allows
rlimit values to be specified in userns even if they are already
globally exceeded by the user. However, the value of the previous
user_namespaces cannot be exceeded.

Changelog

v11:
* Revert most of changes to fix performance issues.

v10:
* Fix memory leak on get_ucounts failure.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov &lt;legion@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/df9d7764dddd50f28616b7840de74ec0f81711a8.1619094428.git.legion@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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The rlimit counter is tied to uid in the user_namespace. This allows
rlimit values to be specified in userns even if they are already
globally exceeded by the user. However, the value of the previous
user_namespaces cannot be exceeded.

Changelog

v11:
* Revert most of changes to fix performance issues.

v10:
* Fix memory leak on get_ucounts failure.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov &lt;legion@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/df9d7764dddd50f28616b7840de74ec0f81711a8.1619094428.git.legion@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Reimplement RLIMIT_MSGQUEUE on top of ucounts</title>
<updated>2021-04-30T19:14:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Gladkov</name>
<email>legion@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-22T12:27:12+00:00</published>
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The rlimit counter is tied to uid in the user_namespace. This allows
rlimit values to be specified in userns even if they are already
globally exceeded by the user. However, the value of the previous
user_namespaces cannot be exceeded.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov &lt;legion@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2531f42f7884bbfee56a978040b3e0d25cdf6cde.1619094428.git.legion@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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The rlimit counter is tied to uid in the user_namespace. This allows
rlimit values to be specified in userns even if they are already
globally exceeded by the user. However, the value of the previous
user_namespaces cannot be exceeded.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov &lt;legion@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2531f42f7884bbfee56a978040b3e0d25cdf6cde.1619094428.git.legion@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<title>Reimplement RLIMIT_NPROC on top of ucounts</title>
<updated>2021-04-30T19:14:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Gladkov</name>
<email>legion@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-22T12:27:11+00:00</published>
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The rlimit counter is tied to uid in the user_namespace. This allows
rlimit values to be specified in userns even if they are already
globally exceeded by the user. However, the value of the previous
user_namespaces cannot be exceeded.

To illustrate the impact of rlimits, let's say there is a program that
does not fork. Some service-A wants to run this program as user X in
multiple containers. Since the program never fork the service wants to
set RLIMIT_NPROC=1.

service-A
 \- program (uid=1000, container1, rlimit_nproc=1)
 \- program (uid=1000, container2, rlimit_nproc=1)

The service-A sets RLIMIT_NPROC=1 and runs the program in container1.
When the service-A tries to run a program with RLIMIT_NPROC=1 in
container2 it fails since user X already has one running process.

We cannot use existing inc_ucounts / dec_ucounts because they do not
allow us to exceed the maximum for the counter. Some rlimits can be
overlimited by root or if the user has the appropriate capability.

Changelog

v11:
* Change inc_rlimit_ucounts() which now returns top value of ucounts.
* Drop inc_rlimit_ucounts_and_test() because the return code of
  inc_rlimit_ucounts() can be checked.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov &lt;legion@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c5286a8aa16d2d698c222f7532f3d735c82bc6bc.1619094428.git.legion@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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The rlimit counter is tied to uid in the user_namespace. This allows
rlimit values to be specified in userns even if they are already
globally exceeded by the user. However, the value of the previous
user_namespaces cannot be exceeded.

To illustrate the impact of rlimits, let's say there is a program that
does not fork. Some service-A wants to run this program as user X in
multiple containers. Since the program never fork the service wants to
set RLIMIT_NPROC=1.

service-A
 \- program (uid=1000, container1, rlimit_nproc=1)
 \- program (uid=1000, container2, rlimit_nproc=1)

The service-A sets RLIMIT_NPROC=1 and runs the program in container1.
When the service-A tries to run a program with RLIMIT_NPROC=1 in
container2 it fails since user X already has one running process.

We cannot use existing inc_ucounts / dec_ucounts because they do not
allow us to exceed the maximum for the counter. Some rlimits can be
overlimited by root or if the user has the appropriate capability.

Changelog

v11:
* Change inc_rlimit_ucounts() which now returns top value of ucounts.
* Drop inc_rlimit_ucounts_and_test() because the return code of
  inc_rlimit_ucounts() can be checked.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov &lt;legion@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c5286a8aa16d2d698c222f7532f3d735c82bc6bc.1619094428.git.legion@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fanotify: configurable limits via sysfs</title>
<updated>2021-03-16T15:49:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Amir Goldstein</name>
<email>amir73il@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-04T11:29:20+00:00</published>
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fanotify has some hardcoded limits. The only APIs to escape those limits
are FAN_UNLIMITED_QUEUE and FAN_UNLIMITED_MARKS.

Allow finer grained tuning of the system limits via sysfs tunables under
/proc/sys/fs/fanotify, similar to tunables under /proc/sys/fs/inotify,
with some minor differences.

- max_queued_events - global system tunable for group queue size limit.
  Like the inotify tunable with the same name, it defaults to 16384 and
  applies on initialization of a new group.

- max_user_marks - user ns tunable for marks limit per user.
  Like the inotify tunable named max_user_watches, on a machine with
  sufficient RAM and it defaults to 1048576 in init userns and can be
  further limited per containing user ns.

- max_user_groups - user ns tunable for number of groups per user.
  Like the inotify tunable named max_user_instances, it defaults to 128
  in init userns and can be further limited per containing user ns.

The slightly different tunable names used for fanotify are derived from
the "group" and "mark" terminology used in the fanotify man pages and
throughout the code.

Considering the fact that the default value for max_user_instances was
increased in kernel v5.10 from 8192 to 1048576, leaving the legacy
fanotify limit of 8192 marks per group in addition to the max_user_marks
limit makes little sense, so the per group marks limit has been removed.

Note that when a group is initialized with FAN_UNLIMITED_MARKS, its own
marks are not accounted in the per user marks account, so in effect the
limit of max_user_marks is only for the collection of groups that are
not initialized with FAN_UNLIMITED_MARKS.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210304112921.3996419-2-amir73il@gmail.com
Suggested-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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fanotify has some hardcoded limits. The only APIs to escape those limits
are FAN_UNLIMITED_QUEUE and FAN_UNLIMITED_MARKS.

Allow finer grained tuning of the system limits via sysfs tunables under
/proc/sys/fs/fanotify, similar to tunables under /proc/sys/fs/inotify,
with some minor differences.

- max_queued_events - global system tunable for group queue size limit.
  Like the inotify tunable with the same name, it defaults to 16384 and
  applies on initialization of a new group.

- max_user_marks - user ns tunable for marks limit per user.
  Like the inotify tunable named max_user_watches, on a machine with
  sufficient RAM and it defaults to 1048576 in init userns and can be
  further limited per containing user ns.

- max_user_groups - user ns tunable for number of groups per user.
  Like the inotify tunable named max_user_instances, it defaults to 128
  in init userns and can be further limited per containing user ns.

The slightly different tunable names used for fanotify are derived from
the "group" and "mark" terminology used in the fanotify man pages and
throughout the code.

Considering the fact that the default value for max_user_instances was
increased in kernel v5.10 from 8192 to 1048576, leaving the legacy
fanotify limit of 8192 marks per group in addition to the max_user_marks
limit makes little sense, so the per group marks limit has been removed.

Note that when a group is initialized with FAN_UNLIMITED_MARKS, its own
marks are not accounted in the per user marks account, so in effect the
limit of max_user_marks is only for the collection of groups that are
not initialized with FAN_UNLIMITED_MARKS.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210304112921.3996419-2-amir73il@gmail.com
Suggested-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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