The patch titled
oom_kill: remove uid==0 checks
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
oom_kill-remove-uid==0-checks.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
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Subject: oom_kill: remove uid==0 checks
From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@xxxxxxxxxx>
Root processes are considered more important when out of memory and killing
proceses. The check for CAP_SYS_ADMIN was augmented with a check for
uid==0 or euid==0.
There are several possible ways to look at this:
1. uid comparisons are unnecessary, trust CAP_SYS_ADMIN
alone. However CAP_SYS_RESOURCE is the one that really
means "give me extra resources" so allow for that as
well.
2. Any privileged code should be protected, but uid is not
an indication of privilege. So we should check whether
any capabilities are raised.
3. uid==0 makes processes on the host as well as in containers
more important, so we should keep the existing checks.
4. uid==0 makes processes only on the host more important,
even without any capabilities. So we should be keeping
the (uid==0||euid==0) check but only when
userns==&init_user_ns.
I'm following number 1 here.
Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morgan <morgan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/oom_kill.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN mm/oom_kill.c~oom_kill-remove-uid==0-checks mm/oom_kill.c
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c~oom_kill-remove-uid==0-checks
+++ a/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ unsigned long badness(struct task_struct
* Superuser processes are usually more important, so we make it
* less likely that we kill those.
*/
- if (__capable(p, CAP_SYS_ADMIN) || p->uid == 0 || p->euid == 0)
+ if (__capable(p, CAP_SYS_ADMIN) || __capable(p, CAP_SYS_RESOURCE))
points /= 4;
/*
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from serue@xxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
git-unionfs.patch
r-o-bind-mounts-stub-functions.patch
r-o-bind-mounts-do_rmdir-elevate-write-count.patch
add-the-namespaces-config-option.patch
move-the-uts-namespace-under-uts_ns-option.patch
move-the-ipc-namespace-under-ipc_ns-option.patch
cleanup-the-code-managed-with-the-user_ns-option.patch
cleanup-the-code-managed-with-pid_ns-option.patch
mark-net_ns-with-depends-on-namespaces.patch
proc-seqfile-convert-proc_pid_status-to-properly-handle-pid-namespaces.patch
proc-seqfile-convert-proc_pid_status-to-properly-handle-pid-namespaces-checkpatch-fixes.patch
proc-seqfile-convert-proc_pid_status-to-properly-handle-pid-namespaces-nommu-fix.patch
reiser4-replace-uid==0-check-with-capability.patch
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