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authorBen Segall <bsegall@google.com>2015-11-06 16:32:48 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-11-06 17:50:42 -0800
commit8639b46139b0e4ea3b1ab1c274e410ee327f1d89 (patch)
treeef62c65fa87b03133678a76aba7a6e50a24a2c0d /kernel/sys.c
parentde90a6bcaede81f35e8caf4566d1006267230377 (diff)
downloadlinux-8639b46139b0e4ea3b1ab1c274e410ee327f1d89.tar.bz2
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.c4
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;