pidns: remove recursion from free_pid_ns()

free_pid_ns() operates in a recursive fashion: free_pid_ns(parent) put_pid_ns(parent) kref_put(&ns->kref, free_pid_ns); free_pid_ns thus if there was a huge nesting of namespaces the userspace may trigger avalanche calling of free_pid_ns leading to kernel stack exhausting and a panic eventually. This patch turns the recursion into an iterative loop. Based on a patch by Andrew Vagin. [[email protected]: export put_pid_ns() to modules] Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <[email protected]> Cc: Andrew Vagin <[email protected]> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <[email protected]> Cc: Greg KH <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
CamonZ · Oct 19, 2012 · bbc2e3e · bbc2e3e
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diff --git a/include/linux/pid_namespace.h b/include/linux/pid_namespace.h
@@ -47,15 +47,9 @@ static inline struct pid_namespace *get_pid_ns(struct pid_namespace *ns)
 }
 
 extern struct pid_namespace *copy_pid_ns(unsigned long flags, struct pid_namespace *ns);
-extern void free_pid_ns(struct kref *kref);
 extern void zap_pid_ns_processes(struct pid_namespace *pid_ns);
 extern int reboot_pid_ns(struct pid_namespace *pid_ns, int cmd);
-
-static inline void put_pid_ns(struct pid_namespace *ns)
-{
-	if (ns != &init_pid_ns)
-		kref_put(&ns->kref, free_pid_ns);
-}
+extern void put_pid_ns(struct pid_namespace *ns);
 
 #else /* !CONFIG_PID_NS */
 #include <linux/err.h>

diff --git a/kernel/pid_namespace.c b/kernel/pid_namespace.c
@@ -133,19 +133,26 @@ struct pid_namespace *copy_pid_ns(unsigned long flags, struct pid_namespace *old
 	return create_pid_namespace(old_ns);
 }
 
-void free_pid_ns(struct kref *kref)
+static void free_pid_ns(struct kref *kref)
 {
-	struct pid_namespace *ns, *parent;
+	struct pid_namespace *ns;
 
 	ns = container_of(kref, struct pid_namespace, kref);
-
-	parent = ns->parent;
 	destroy_pid_namespace(ns);
+}
 
-	if (parent != NULL)
-		put_pid_ns(parent);
+void put_pid_ns(struct pid_namespace *ns)
+{
+	struct pid_namespace *parent;
+
+	while (ns != &init_pid_ns) {
+		parent = ns->parent;
+		if (!kref_put(&ns->kref, free_pid_ns))
+			break;
+		ns = parent;
+	}
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(free_pid_ns);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(put_pid_ns);
 
 void zap_pid_ns_processes(struct pid_namespace *pid_ns)
 {