[Devel] [PATCH 1/1] introduce user_ns inheritance in user-sched

[Serge E. Hallyn]

In a kernel compiled with CONFIG_USER_SCHED=y, cpu shares are
allocated according to uid.  Shares are specifiable under
/sys/kernel/uids/<uid>/

In a kernel compiled with CONFIG_USER_NS=y, clone(2) with the
CLONE_NEWUSER flag creates a new user namespace, and the newly
cloned task will belong to uid 0 in the new user namespace.

Without this patch,  if uid 500 calls clone(CLONE_NEWUSER) (which
is possible using a program with the cap_sys_admin,cap_setuid,cap_setgid=pe
file capabilities), then the new task will get the cpu shares of
uid 0.

After this patch, if uid 500 calls clone(CLONE_NEWUSER), then even
though it is uid 0 in the new user namespace, it will be restricted to
the cpu shares of uid 500.

Currently there is no way to set shares for uids in user namespaces
other than the initial one.  That will be trivial to add when
sysfs tagging (or its functional equivalent, also needed to
expose network devices in network namespaces other than init)
becomes available.

Until cross-user-namespace file accesses are enforced, nothing
stops uid 0 in a child namespace from simply writing new values
into /sys/kernel/uids/500.

Here are results of some testing with and without the patch.

Cpu shares are initialized as follows::
	user root:   2048
	user hallyn: 1024
	user serge:  512

Results are the 'real' part of time make -j4 > o 2>&1,
each time after a make clean.

=================================================================
UNPATCHED
User 1: user serge creates a child user_ns and runs as user root
User 2: hallyn runs as user hallyn
=================================================================
           User 1          User 2
run 1:   2m58.834s        3m0.609s
run 2:   2m59.248s        2m59.457s

=============================================================
PATCHED
User 1: user serge
User 2: user hallyn
=============================================================

           User 1          User 2
run 1:   3m6.337s        2m22.681s
run 2:   3m6.323s        2m21.855s

=============================================================
PATCHED
User 1: user serge setuid to user root
User 2: hallyn
=============================================================

           User 1          User 2
run 1:   2m17.782s       3m3.947s
run 2:   2m18.497s       3m7.961s

==========================================================
PATCHED
User 1: user root inside userns created by userid serge
User 2: hallyn
==========================================================

           User 1          User 2
run 1:   3m9.876s        2m8.428s
run 2:   3m8.539s        2m6.356s

Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue at us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: mingo at elte.hu
Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: peterz at infradead.org
---
 kernel/user.c           |   12 +++++++++---
 kernel/user_namespace.c |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/user.c b/kernel/user.c
index 850e0ba..53aeea2 100644
--- a/kernel/user.c
+++ b/kernel/user.c
@@ -101,7 +101,12 @@ static int sched_create_user(struct user_struct *up)
 {
 	int rc = 0;
 
-	up->tg = sched_create_group(&root_task_group);
+	struct task_group *parent = &root_task_group;
+
+	if (up->user_ns != &init_user_ns)
+		parent = up->user_ns->creator->tg;
+
+	up->tg = sched_create_group(parent);
 	if (IS_ERR(up->tg))
 		rc = -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -434,11 +439,11 @@ struct user_struct *alloc_uid(struct user_namespace *ns, uid_t uid)
 		new->uid = uid;
 		atomic_set(&new->__count, 1);
 
+		new->user_ns = get_user_ns(ns);
+
 		if (sched_create_user(new) < 0)
 			goto out_free_user;
 
-		new->user_ns = get_user_ns(ns);
-
 		if (uids_user_create(new))
 			goto out_destoy_sched;
 
@@ -472,6 +477,7 @@ out_destoy_sched:
 	sched_destroy_user(new);
 	put_user_ns(new->user_ns);
 out_free_user:
+	put_user_ns(new->user_ns);
 	kmem_cache_free(uid_cachep, new);
 out_unlock:
 	uids_mutex_unlock();
diff --git a/kernel/user_namespace.c b/kernel/user_namespace.c
index 076c7c8..a99d3c7 100644
--- a/kernel/user_namespace.c
+++ b/kernel/user_namespace.c
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ int create_user_ns(struct cred *new)
 		INIT_HLIST_HEAD(ns->uidhash_table + n);
 
 	/* Alloc new root user.  */
+	ns->creator = new->user;
 	root_user = alloc_uid(ns, 0);
 	if (!root_user) {
 		kfree(ns);
@@ -42,7 +43,6 @@ int create_user_ns(struct cred *new)
 	}
 
 	/* set the new root user in the credentials under preparation */
-	ns->creator = new->user;
 	new->user = root_user;
 	new->uid = new->euid = new->suid = new->fsuid = 0;
 	new->gid = new->egid = new->sgid = new->fsgid = 0;
-- 
1.5.4.3

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