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Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com> wrote:
> It was reported that v5.14 behaves differently when enforcing
> RLIMIT_NPROC limit, namely, it allows one more task than previously.
> This is consequence of the commit 21d1c5e386bc ("Reimplement
> RLIMIT_NPROC on top of ucounts") that missed the sharpness of
> equality in the forking path.
This can be fixed either by fixing the test or by moving the increment
to be before the test. Fix it my moving copy_creds which contains
the increment before is_ucounts_overlimit.
In the case of CLONE_NEWUSER the ucounts in the task_cred changes.
The function is_ucounts_overlimit needs to use the final version of
the ucounts for the new process. Which means moving the
is_ucounts_overlimit test after copy_creds is necessary.
Both the test in fork and the test in set_user were semantically
changed when the code moved to ucounts. The change of the test in
fork was bad because it was before the increment. The test in
set_user was wrong and the change to ucounts fixed it. So this
fix only restores the old behavior in one lcation not two.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220204181144.24462-1-mkoutny@suse.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220216155832.680775-2-ebiederm@xmission.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Fixes: 21d1c5e386bc ("Reimplement RLIMIT_NPROC on top of ucounts")
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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