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From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
To: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>,
	James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>,
	Sebastian Krahmer <krahmer@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [patch v2] move RLIMIT_NPROC check from set_user() to do_execve_common()
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:06:13 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110729080613.GA2488@albatros> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110726144848.GA7133@albatros>

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 18:48 +0400, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
>  	if (atomic_read(&new_user->processes) >= rlimit(RLIMIT_NPROC) &&
> -			new_user != INIT_USER) {
> -		free_uid(new_user);
> -		return -EAGAIN;
> -	}
> +			new_user != INIT_USER)
> +		current->flags |= PF_NPROC_EXCEEDED;

It doesn't respect the chain: setresuid() with exceeded rlimit to user A,
setresuid() with normal limit to user B.  While being user B, the PF is
kept, which is wrong as it is not B's exceeded limit.  So, it must be
cleared on successful set_user() calls.  I'll send a patch.

-- 
Vasiliy Kulikov
http://www.openwall.com - bringing security into open computing environments

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-07-29  8:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-12 13:09 RLIMIT_NPROC check in set_user() Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-07-06 17:36 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-07-06 18:01   ` Linus Torvalds
2011-07-06 18:59     ` [kernel-hardening] " Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-07-07  7:56       ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-07-07  8:19         ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-07-12 13:27           ` [PATCH] move RLIMIT_NPROC check from set_user() to do_execve_common() Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-07-12 21:16             ` Linus Torvalds
2011-07-12 23:14               ` NeilBrown
2011-07-13  6:31                 ` Solar Designer
2011-07-13  7:06                   ` NeilBrown
2011-07-13 20:46                     ` Linus Torvalds
2011-07-14  0:11                       ` James Morris
2011-07-14  1:27                         ` NeilBrown
2011-07-14 15:06                           ` Solar Designer
2011-07-15  3:30                             ` NeilBrown
2011-07-15  5:35                               ` Willy Tarreau
2011-07-15  6:31                               ` [kernel-hardening] " Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-07-15  7:06                                 ` NeilBrown
2011-07-15  7:38                                   ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-07-15 13:04                                     ` Solar Designer
2011-07-15 13:58                                     ` [kernel-hardening] " Stephen Smalley
2011-07-15 15:26                                       ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-07-15 19:54                                         ` Stephen Smalley
2011-07-21  4:09                                           ` NeilBrown
2011-07-21 12:48                                             ` Solar Designer
2011-07-21 18:21                                               ` Linus Torvalds
2011-07-21 19:39                                                 ` [kernel-hardening] " Solar Designer
2011-07-25 17:14                                                   ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-07-25 23:40                                                     ` [kernel-hardening] " Solar Designer
2011-07-26  0:47                                                       ` NeilBrown
2011-07-26  1:16                                                         ` Solar Designer
2011-07-26  4:11                                                           ` NeilBrown
2011-07-26 14:48                                                             ` [patch v2] " Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-07-27  2:15                                                               ` NeilBrown
2011-07-29  7:07                                                                 ` [kernel-hardening] " Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-07-29  8:06                                                               ` Vasiliy Kulikov [this message]
2011-07-29  8:11                                                                 ` [patch v3] " Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-07-29  8:17                                                                   ` James Morris
2011-07-14  1:30                         ` [PATCH] " KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-07-13  5:36             ` KOSAKI Motohiro

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