ucounts: Base set_cred_ucounts changes on the real user
Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com> 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 21d1c5e3 ("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_u...
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