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authorJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2011-10-19 14:30:42 +0200
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2011-10-19 14:30:42 +0200
commit5c04b426f2e8b46cfc7969a35b2631063a3c646c (patch)
tree2d27d9f5d2fe5d5e8fbc01a467ec58bcb50235c1 /fs/exec.c
parent499337bb6511e665a236a6a947f819d98ea340c6 (diff)
parent899e3ee404961a90b828ad527573aaaac39f0ab1 (diff)
Merge branch 'v3.1-rc10' into for-3.2/core
Conflicts: block/blk-core.c include/linux/blkdev.h Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/exec.c')
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1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index da80612a35f4..25dcbe5fc356 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -1459,6 +1459,23 @@ static int do_execve_common(const char *filename,
struct files_struct *displaced;
bool clear_in_exec;
int retval;
+ const struct cred *cred = current_cred();
+
+ /*
+ * We move the actual failure in case of RLIMIT_NPROC excess from
+ * set*uid() to execve() because too many poorly written programs
+ * don't check setuid() return code. Here we additionally recheck
+ * whether NPROC limit is still exceeded.
+ */
+ if ((current->flags & PF_NPROC_EXCEEDED) &&
+ atomic_read(&cred->user->processes) > rlimit(RLIMIT_NPROC)) {
+ retval = -EAGAIN;
+ goto out_ret;
+ }
+
+ /* We're below the limit (still or again), so we don't want to make
+ * further execve() calls fail. */
+ current->flags &= ~PF_NPROC_EXCEEDED;
retval = unshare_files(&displaced);
if (retval)