From bbc2e3ef87851bc5430b2b4cf4ca3a2f29baeda6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 13:56:53 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] 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.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export put_pid_ns() to modules]
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 include/linux/pid_namespace.h |  8 +-------
 kernel/pid_namespace.c        | 23 +++++++++++++++--------
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/pid_namespace.h b/include/linux/pid_namespace.h
index 00474b04714..65e3e87eacc 100644
--- 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
index 478bad2745e..eb00be20581 100644
--- 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);
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(free_pid_ns);
+
+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(put_pid_ns);
 
 void zap_pid_ns_processes(struct pid_namespace *pid_ns)
 {