On Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at 12:09:37PM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote: > 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-christ...@brauner.io/ > > [2]; https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181221163316.ga8...@kroah.com/ > > [3]: > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cahrssex+gdvw4fkkk8oznair9g5icjlyodo8hykv3o0o1jt...@mail.gmail.com/ > > [4]: > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181221192044.5yvfnuri7gdop...@brauner.io/ > > > > Cc: Todd Kjos <tk...@google.com> > > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> > > Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brau...@ubuntu.com> > > Right, I forgot to ask. Do we still have time to land this alongside the > other patches in 4.21? :)
It's too late for 4.21-rc1, but let's see what happens after that :) greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list de...@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
