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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sys.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sys.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c index a101ba36c444..dd948a1fca4c 100644 --- a/kernel/sys.c +++ b/kernel/sys.c @@ -621,11 +621,18 @@ static int set_user(struct cred *new) if (!new_user) return -EAGAIN; + /* + * We don't fail in case of NPROC limit excess here because too many + * poorly written programs don't check set*uid() return code, assuming + * it never fails if called by root. We may still enforce NPROC limit + * for programs doing set*uid()+execve() by harmlessly deferring the + * failure to the execve() stage. + */ if (atomic_read(&new_user->processes) >= rlimit(RLIMIT_NPROC) && - new_user != INIT_USER) { - free_uid(new_user); - return -EAGAIN; - } + new_user != INIT_USER) + current->flags |= PF_NPROC_EXCEEDED; + else + current->flags &= ~PF_NPROC_EXCEEDED; free_uid(new->user); new->user = new_user; |