Long story short recursively enforcing RLIMIT_NPROC when it is not enforced on the process that creates a new user namespace, causes currently working code to fail. There is no reason to enforce RLIMIT_NPROC recursively when we don't enforce it normally so update the code to detect this case. I would like to simply use capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE) to detect when RLIMIT_NPROC is not enforced upon the caller. Unfortunately because RLIMIT_NPROC is charged and checked for enforcement based upon the real uid, using capable() wich is euid based is inconsistent with reality. Come as close as possible to testing for capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE) by testing for when the real uid would match the conditions when CAP_SYS_RESOURCE would be present if the real uid was the effective uid. Reported-by: Etienne Dechamps <etienne@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215596 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e9589141-cfeb-90cd-2d0e-83a62787239a@xxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 21d1c5e386bc ("Reimplement RLIMIT_NPROC on top of ucounts") Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- The previous conversation has given me enough clarity that I can see which tests I am comfortable with use for this pending regression fix. I have tested this and it works for me. Does anyone have any concerns with this change? kernel/user_namespace.c | 14 +++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/user_namespace.c b/kernel/user_namespace.c index 6b2e3ca7ee99..5481ba44a8d6 100644 --- a/kernel/user_namespace.c +++ b/kernel/user_namespace.c @@ -58,6 +58,18 @@ static void set_cred_user_ns(struct cred *cred, struct user_namespace *user_ns) cred->user_ns = user_ns; } +static unsigned long enforced_nproc_rlimit(void) +{ + unsigned long limit = RLIM_INFINITY; + + /* Is RLIMIT_NPROC currently enforced? */ + if (!uid_eq(current_uid(), GLOBAL_ROOT_UID) || + (current_user_ns() != &init_user_ns)) + limit = rlimit(RLIMIT_NPROC); + + return limit; +} + /* * Create a new user namespace, deriving the creator from the user in the * passed credentials, and replacing that user with the new root user for the @@ -122,7 +134,7 @@ int create_user_ns(struct cred *new) for (i = 0; i < MAX_PER_NAMESPACE_UCOUNTS; i++) { ns->ucount_max[i] = INT_MAX; } - set_rlimit_ucount_max(ns, UCOUNT_RLIMIT_NPROC, rlimit(RLIMIT_NPROC)); + set_rlimit_ucount_max(ns, UCOUNT_RLIMIT_NPROC, enforced_nproc_rlimit()); set_rlimit_ucount_max(ns, UCOUNT_RLIMIT_MSGQUEUE, rlimit(RLIMIT_MSGQUEUE)); set_rlimit_ucount_max(ns, UCOUNT_RLIMIT_SIGPENDING, rlimit(RLIMIT_SIGPENDING)); set_rlimit_ucount_max(ns, UCOUNT_RLIMIT_MEMLOCK, rlimit(RLIMIT_MEMLOCK)); -- 2.29.2
