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Nikolay Borisov 1cce1eea0a inotify: Convert to using per-namespace limits
This patchset converts inotify to using the newly introduced
per-userns sysctl infrastructure.

Currently the inotify instances/watches are being accounted in the
user_struct structure. This means that in setups where multiple
users in unprivileged containers map to the same underlying
real user (i.e. pointing to the same user_struct) the inotify limits
are going to be shared as well, allowing one user(or application) to exhaust
all others limits.

Fix this by switching the inotify sysctls to using the
per-namespace/per-user limits. This will allow the server admin to
set sensible global limits, which can further be tuned inside every
individual user namespace. Additionally, in order to preserve the
sysctl ABI make the existing inotify instances/watches sysctls
modify the values of the initial user namespace.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <n.borisov.lkml@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2017-01-24 12:03:07 +13:00
Documentation Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt: fix incorrect comparison operator 2016-12-27 13:08:42 -07:00
arch mm: optimize PageWaiters bit use for unlock_page() 2016-12-29 11:03:15 -08:00
block ktime: Cleanup ktime_set() usage 2016-12-25 17:21:22 +01:00
certs certs: Add a secondary system keyring that can be added to dynamically 2016-04-11 22:48:09 +01:00
crypto crypto: testmgr - Use heap buffer for acomp test input 2016-12-27 17:32:11 +08:00
drivers Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2016-12-27 17:51:36 -08:00
firmware WHENCE: use https://linuxtv.org for LinuxTV URLs 2015-12-04 10:35:11 -02:00
fs inotify: Convert to using per-namespace limits 2017-01-24 12:03:07 +13:00
include inotify: Convert to using per-namespace limits 2017-01-24 12:03:07 +13:00
init mm: add PageWaiters indicating tasks are waiting for a page bit 2016-12-25 11:54:48 -08:00
ipc ipc/sem: avoid idr tree lookup for interrupted semop 2016-12-14 16:04:08 -08:00
kernel inotify: Convert to using per-namespace limits 2017-01-24 12:03:07 +13:00
lib Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-12-25 14:30:04 -08:00
mm Merge branch 'libnvdimm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm 2017-01-01 12:27:05 -08:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2016-12-27 16:04:37 -08:00
samples Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-12-23 16:49:12 -08:00
scripts Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2016-12-22 10:03:52 -08:00
security Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
sound ktime: Cleanup ktime_set() usage 2016-12-25 17:21:22 +01:00
tools Merge branch 'turbostat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux 2016-12-25 14:01:28 -08:00
usr initramfs: allow again choice of the embedded initram compression algorithm 2016-12-14 16:04:08 -08:00
virt Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-12-25 14:30:04 -08:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Merge branch 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-08-02 16:48:52 -04:00
.mailmap Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus 2016-10-15 09:26:12 -07:00
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Kbuild scripts/gdb: provide linux constants 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
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MAINTAINERS Watchdog updates for v4.10 2016-12-24 11:27:45 -08:00
Makefile Linux 4.10-rc2 2017-01-01 14:31:53 -08:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.