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rlimits: make sure ->rlim_max never grows in sys_setrlimit
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Mostly preparation for Jiri's changes, but probably makes sense anyway.

sys_setrlimit() checks new_rlim.rlim_max <= old_rlim->rlim_max, but when
it takes task_lock() old_rlim->rlim_max can be already lowered. Move this
check under task_lock().

Currently this is not important, we can only race with our sub-thread,
this means the application is stupid. But when we change the code to allow
the update of !current task's limits, it becomes important to make sure
->rlim_max can be lowered "reliably" even if we race with the application
doing sys_setrlimit().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
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Oleg Nesterov authored and Jiri Slaby committed Jul 16, 2010
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15 changes: 8 additions & 7 deletions kernel/sys.c
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Expand Up @@ -1283,10 +1283,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(setrlimit, unsigned int, resource, struct rlimit __user *, rlim)
return -EFAULT;
if (new_rlim.rlim_cur > new_rlim.rlim_max)
return -EINVAL;
old_rlim = current->signal->rlim + resource;
if ((new_rlim.rlim_max > old_rlim->rlim_max) &&
!capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE))
return -EPERM;
if (resource == RLIMIT_NOFILE && new_rlim.rlim_max > sysctl_nr_open)
return -EPERM;

Expand All @@ -1304,11 +1300,16 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(setrlimit, unsigned int, resource, struct rlimit __user *, rlim)
new_rlim.rlim_cur = 1;
}

old_rlim = current->signal->rlim + resource;
task_lock(current->group_leader);
*old_rlim = new_rlim;
if (new_rlim.rlim_max > old_rlim->rlim_max &&
!capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE))
retval = -EPERM;
else
*old_rlim = new_rlim;
task_unlock(current->group_leader);

if (resource != RLIMIT_CPU)
if (retval || resource != RLIMIT_CPU)
goto out;

/*
Expand All @@ -1322,7 +1323,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(setrlimit, unsigned int, resource, struct rlimit __user *, rlim)

update_rlimit_cpu(current, new_rlim.rlim_cur);
out:
return 0;
return retval;
}

/*
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