binderfs: implement "max" mount option
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-christian@brauner.io/ [2]; https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181221163316.GA8517@kroah.com/ [3]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHRSSEx+gDVW4fKKK8oZNAir9G5icJLyodO8hykv3O0O1jt2FQ@mail.gmail.com/ [4]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181221192044.5yvfnuri7gdop4rs@brauner.io/ Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by:Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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