From 76cb841cb886eef6b3bee341a2266c76578724ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Mon, 6 May 2024 03:02:30 +0200 Subject: Adding upstream version 4.19.249. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- Documentation/sysctl/user.txt | 66 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 66 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/sysctl/user.txt (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl/user.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/user.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/user.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a58828658 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/user.txt @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +Documentation for /proc/sys/user/* kernel version 4.9.0 + (c) 2016 Eric Biederman + +============================================================== + +This file contains the documentation for the sysctl files in +/proc/sys/user. + +The files in this directory can be used to override the default +limits on the number of namespaces and other objects that have +per user per user namespace limits. + +The primary purpose of these limits is to stop programs that +malfunction and attempt to create a ridiculous number of objects, +before the malfunction becomes a system wide problem. It is the +intention that the defaults of these limits are set high enough that +no program in normal operation should run into these limits. + +The creation of per user per user namespace objects are charged to +the user in the user namespace who created the object and +verified to be below the per user limit in that user namespace. + +The creation of objects is also charged to all of the users +who created user namespaces the creation of the object happens +in (user namespaces can be nested) and verified to be below the per user +limits in the user namespaces of those users. + +This recursive counting of created objects ensures that creating a +user namespace does not allow a user to escape their current limits. + +Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/user: + +- max_cgroup_namespaces + + The maximum number of cgroup namespaces that any user in the current + user namespace may create. + +- max_ipc_namespaces + + The maximum number of ipc namespaces that any user in the current + user namespace may create. + +- max_mnt_namespaces + + The maximum number of mount namespaces that any user in the current + user namespace may create. + +- max_net_namespaces + + The maximum number of network namespaces that any user in the + current user namespace may create. + +- max_pid_namespaces + + The maximum number of pid namespaces that any user in the current + user namespace may create. + +- max_user_namespaces + + The maximum number of user namespaces that any user in the current + user namespace may create. + +- max_uts_namespaces + + The maximum number of user namespaces that any user in the current + user namespace may create. -- cgit v1.2.3