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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>2011-09-17 17:29:49 +0400
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>2011-09-17 17:29:49 +0400
commit7577911244c437f4a4abac5e4b67b059c06dbe9d (patch)
tree4f0078ddacff226e26b03fa4f6cf185d48633124 /fs/exec.c
parent418d93ac0be6d4a410731b80af4e836614ffe73e (diff)
parentb6fd41e29dea9c6753b1843a77e50433e6123bcb (diff)
downloadlinux-7577911244c437f4a4abac5e4b67b059c06dbe9d.tar.xz
Merge tag 'v3.1-rc6' into staging/for_v3.2
* tag 'v3.1-rc6': (1902 commits) Linux 3.1-rc6 ioctl: register LTTng ioctl fuse: fix memory leak fuse: fix flock breakage Btrfs: add dummy extent if dst offset excceeds file end in Btrfs: calc file extent num_bytes correctly in file clone btrfs: xattr: fix attribute removal Btrfs: fix wrong nbytes information of the inode Btrfs: fix the file extent gap when doing direct IO Btrfs: fix unclosed transaction handle in btrfs_cont_expand Btrfs: fix misuse of trans block rsv Btrfs: reset to appropriate block rsv after orphan operations Btrfs: skip locking if searching the commit root in csum lookup btrfs: fix warning in iput for bad-inode Btrfs: fix an oops when deleting snapshots [media] vp7045: fix buffer setup [media] nuvoton-cir: simplify raw IR sample handling [media] [Resend] viacam: Don't explode if pci_find_bus() returns NULL [media] v4l2: Fix documentation of the codec device controls [media] gspca - sonixj: Fix the darkness of sensor om6802 in 320x240 ...
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)