]> bbs.cooldavid.org Git - net-next-2.6.git/commitdiff
rlimits: do security check under task_lock
authorJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:37:04 +0000 (17:37 +0100)
committerJiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:48:47 +0000 (09:48 +0200)
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>
kernel/sys.c

index 9dbcbbcce15385e54a20f0949d7cd5c0461dee7d..c762eebdebf7bdae98506279ae535fac6dfead4d 100644 (file)
@@ -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);