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authorJiri Slaby2009-11-14 17:37:04 +0100
committerJiri Slaby2010-07-16 09:48:47 +0200
commit86f162f4c75ceb6daf43165469eeeca1bc3d4639 (patch)
treebca0e9d28d636fbaefb1846bdb85d9b57708df11 /kernel
parentrlimits: allow setrlimit to non-current tasks (diff)
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rlimits: do security check under task_lock
Do security_task_setrlimit under task_lock. Other tasks may change limits under our hands while we are checking limits inside the function. From now on, they can't. Note that all the security work is done under a spinlock here now. Security hooks count with that, they are called from interrupt context (like security_task_kill) and with spinlocks already held (e.g. capable->security_capable). Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sys.c20
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index 9dbcbbcce153..c762eebdebf7 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -1277,7 +1277,7 @@ int do_setrlimit(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned int resource,
struct rlimit *new_rlim)
{
struct rlimit *old_rlim;
- int retval;
+ int retval = 0;
if (resource >= RLIM_NLIMITS)
return -EINVAL;
@@ -1293,9 +1293,14 @@ int do_setrlimit(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned int resource,
goto out;
}
- retval = security_task_setrlimit(tsk->group_leader, resource, new_rlim);
- if (retval)
- goto out;
+ old_rlim = tsk->signal->rlim + resource;
+ task_lock(tsk->group_leader);
+ if (new_rlim->rlim_max > old_rlim->rlim_max &&
+ !capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE))
+ retval = -EPERM;
+ if (!retval)
+ retval = security_task_setrlimit(tsk->group_leader, resource,
+ new_rlim);
if (resource == RLIMIT_CPU && new_rlim->rlim_cur == 0) {
/*
@@ -1307,12 +1312,7 @@ int do_setrlimit(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned int resource,
new_rlim->rlim_cur = 1;
}
- old_rlim = tsk->signal->rlim + resource;
- task_lock(tsk->group_leader);
- if (new_rlim->rlim_max > old_rlim->rlim_max &&
- !capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE))
- retval = -EPERM;
- else
+ if (!retval)
*old_rlim = *new_rlim;
task_unlock(tsk->group_leader);