From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> commit a55d07294f1e9b576093bdfa95422f8119941e83 upstream. Michal Koutný <mkoutny@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Tasks are associated to multiple users at once. Historically and as per > setrlimit(2) RLIMIT_NPROC is enforce based on real user ID. > > The commit 21d1c5e386bc ("Reimplement RLIMIT_NPROC on top of ucounts") > made the accounting structure "indexed" by euid and hence potentially > account tasks differently. > > The effective user ID may be different e.g. for setuid programs but > those are exec'd into already existing task (i.e. below limit), so > different accounting is moot. > > Some special setresuid(2) users may notice the difference, justifying > this fix. I looked at cred->ucount and it is only used for rlimit operations that were previously stored in cred->user. Making the fact cred->ucount can refer to a different user from cred->user a bug, affecting all uses of cred->ulimit not just RLIMIT_NPROC. Fix set_cred_ucounts to always use the real uid not the effective uid. Further simplify set_cred_ucounts by noticing that set_cred_ucounts somehow retained a draft version of the check to see if alloc_ucounts was needed that checks the new->user and new->user_ns against the current_real_cred(). Remove that draft version of the check. All that matters for setting the cred->ucounts are the user_ns and uid fields in the cred. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220207121800.5079-4-mkoutny@xxxxxxxx Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220216155832.680775-3-ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx Reported-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@xxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@xxxxxxxx> Fixes: 21d1c5e386bc ("Reimplement RLIMIT_NPROC on top of ucounts") Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/cred.c | 9 ++------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/cred.c +++ b/kernel/cred.c @@ -665,21 +665,16 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(cred_fscmp); int set_cred_ucounts(struct cred *new) { - struct task_struct *task = current; - const struct cred *old = task->real_cred; struct ucounts *new_ucounts, *old_ucounts = new->ucounts; - if (new->user == old->user && new->user_ns == old->user_ns) - return 0; - /* * This optimization is needed because alloc_ucounts() uses locks * for table lookups. */ - if (old_ucounts->ns == new->user_ns && uid_eq(old_ucounts->uid, new->euid)) + if (old_ucounts->ns == new->user_ns && uid_eq(old_ucounts->uid, new->uid)) return 0; - if (!(new_ucounts = alloc_ucounts(new->user_ns, new->euid))) + if (!(new_ucounts = alloc_ucounts(new->user_ns, new->uid))) return -EAGAIN; new->ucounts = new_ucounts;