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Message-ID: <20090216131440.GC3925@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:44:40 +0530
From:	Dhaval Giani <dhaval@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@...ooh.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Bharata B Rao <bharata@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ibm.com>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, mtk.manpages@...il.com
Subject: Re: RT scheduling and a way to make a process hang, unkillable

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 01:24:42PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 17:32 +0530, Dhaval Giani wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, made it boolean. how does the following look?
> 
> Much better, but look below.
> 

<snip>

> > Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sys.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sys.c
> > +++ linux-2.6/kernel/sys.c
> > @@ -579,6 +579,9 @@ static int set_user(struct cred *new)
> >  		return -EAGAIN;
> >  	}
> >  
> > +	if (!task_can_switch_user(new->uid, current))
> > +		return -EAGAIN;
> 
> you're leaking new_user here.
> 
> Best might be to place this test on top before allocating it.
> 

Yep, also another memory leak was there, which I fixed in this version.
What about this? (This is not a good day!)

sched: Don't allow setuid to succeed if the user does not have rt bandwidth

Corey Hickey reported that on using setuid to change the uid of a
rt process, the process would be unkillable and not be running.
This is because there was no rt runtime for that user group. Add
in a check to see if a user can attach an rt task to its task group.

Disclaimer: Not sure about the return values, and if setuid allows
return values other than EPERM and EAGAIN.

Changes from v2:
1. Patch compiles for CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED as well
2. Fix two memory leaks.

Changes from v1:
1. Peter suggested that rt_task_can_change_user should be renamed to
task_can_change_user
2. Changed sched_rt_can_attach to boolean.

Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>


Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/sched.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/sched.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -2320,9 +2320,12 @@ extern long sched_group_rt_runtime(struc
 extern int sched_group_set_rt_period(struct task_group *tg,
 				      long rt_period_us);
 extern long sched_group_rt_period(struct task_group *tg);
+extern int sched_rt_can_attach(struct task_group *tg, struct task_struct *tsk);
 #endif
 #endif
 
+extern int task_can_switch_user(uid_t uid, struct task_struct *tsk);
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_TASK_XACCT
 static inline void add_rchar(struct task_struct *tsk, ssize_t amt)
 {
Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c
@@ -9466,6 +9466,16 @@ static int sched_rt_global_constraints(v
 
 	return ret;
 }
+
+int sched_rt_can_attach(struct task_group *tg, struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+	/* Don't accept realtime tasks when there is no way for them to run */
+	if (rt_task(tsk) && tg->rt_bandwidth.rt_runtime == 0)
+		return 0;
+
+	return 1;
+}
+
 #else /* !CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED */
 static int sched_rt_global_constraints(void)
 {
@@ -9559,8 +9569,7 @@ cpu_cgroup_can_attach(struct cgroup_subs
 		      struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
 #ifdef CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED
-	/* Don't accept realtime tasks when there is no way for them to run */
-	if (rt_task(tsk) && cgroup_tg(cgrp)->rt_bandwidth.rt_runtime == 0)
+	if (!sched_rt_can_attach(cgroup_tg(cgrp), tsk))
 		return -EINVAL;
 #else
 	/* We don't support RT-tasks being in separate groups */
Index: linux-2.6/kernel/user.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/user.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/user.c
@@ -362,6 +362,28 @@ static void free_user(struct user_struct
 
 #endif
 
+#if defined(CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED) && defined(CONFIG_USER_SCHED)
+/*
+ * We need to check if a setuid can take place. This function should be called
+ * before successfully completing the setuid.
+ */
+int task_can_switch_user(uid_t uid, struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+	int ret = 1;
+	struct user_struct *up = find_user(uid);
+
+	ret = sched_rt_can_attach(up->tg, tsk);
+	free_uid(up);
+
+	return ret;
+}
+#else
+int task_can_switch_user(uid_t uid, struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+	return 1;
+}
+#endif
+
 /*
  * Locate the user_struct for the passed UID.  If found, take a ref on it.  The
  * caller must undo that ref with free_uid().
Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sys.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sys.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/sys.c
@@ -560,7 +560,7 @@ error:
 	abort_creds(new);
 	return retval;
 }
-  
+
 /*
  * change the user struct in a credentials set to match the new UID
  */
@@ -572,6 +572,9 @@ static int set_user(struct cred *new)
 	if (!new_user)
 		return -EAGAIN;
 
+	if (!task_can_switch_user(new->uid, current))
+		return -EAGAIN;
+
 	if (atomic_read(&new_user->processes) >=
 				current->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_NPROC].rlim_cur &&
 			new_user != INIT_USER) {
-- 
regards,
Dhaval
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