From bbc2e3ef87851bc5430b2b4cf4ca3a2f29baeda6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cyrill Gorcunov 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 Cc: Andrew Vagin Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Pavel Emelyanov Cc: Greg KH Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed