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author | Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com> | 2015-11-06 16:32:48 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -0800 |
commit | 8639b46139b0e4ea3b1ab1c274e410ee327f1d89 (patch) | |
tree | ef62c65fa87b03133678a76aba7a6e50a24a2c0d /kernel/sys.c | |
parent | de90a6bcaede81f35e8caf4566d1006267230377 (diff) | |
download | lwn-8639b46139b0e4ea3b1ab1c274e410ee327f1d89.tar.gz lwn-8639b46139b0e4ea3b1ab1c274e410ee327f1d89.zip |
pidns: fix set/getpriority and ioprio_set/get in PRIO_USER mode
setpriority(PRIO_USER, 0, x) will change the priority of tasks outside of
the current pid namespace. This is in contrast to both the other modes of
setpriority and the example of kill(-1). Fix this. getpriority and
ioprio have the same failure mode, fix them too.
Eric said:
: After some more thinking about it this patch sounds justifiable.
:
: My goal with namespaces is not to build perfect isolation mechanisms
: as that can get into ill defined territory, but to build well defined
: mechanisms. And to handle the corner cases so you can use only
: a single namespace with well defined results.
:
: In this case you have found the two interfaces I am aware of that
: identify processes by uid instead of by pid. Which quite frankly is
: weird. Unfortunately the weird unexpected cases are hard to handle
: in the usual way.
:
: I was hoping for a little more information. Changes like this one we
: have to be careful of because someone might be depending on the current
: behavior. I don't think they are and I do think this make sense as part
: of the pid namespace.
Signed-off-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ambrose Feinstein <ambrose@google.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sys.c')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/sys.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c index fa2f2f671a5c..6af9212ab5aa 100644 --- a/kernel/sys.c +++ b/kernel/sys.c @@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(setpriority, int, which, int, who, int, niceval) goto out_unlock; /* No processes for this user */ } do_each_thread(g, p) { - if (uid_eq(task_uid(p), uid)) + if (uid_eq(task_uid(p), uid) && task_pid_vnr(p)) error = set_one_prio(p, niceval, error); } while_each_thread(g, p); if (!uid_eq(uid, cred->uid)) @@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(getpriority, int, which, int, who) goto out_unlock; /* No processes for this user */ } do_each_thread(g, p) { - if (uid_eq(task_uid(p), uid)) { + if (uid_eq(task_uid(p), uid) && task_pid_vnr(p)) { niceval = nice_to_rlimit(task_nice(p)); if (niceval > retval) retval = niceval; |