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From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, mingo@redhat.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] core: allow setrlimit to non-current tasks
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:47:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A9FC8DA.4090001@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090902215101.GA4767@redhat.com>

On 09/02/2009 11:51 PM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 09/02, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>> I can't think of anything else than doing all the checks and updates
>> under alloc_lock, introducing coarse grained static mutex in setrlimit
>> to protect it,
> 
> Oh, please don't ;)
> 
> Or I missed your point?
> 
> 
> But if you mean this series, then yes, I agree. 

Yes, I meant those. But I don't know what do you agree with :).

> We should try to do something
> to ensure that at least rlim_max can be always lowered when admin writes to
> /proc/pid/limits.

Yes, that's what I asked about when I wrote the three options which I
was able to think of above. So any other ideas about how to elegantly
protect against sys_setrlimit vs. admin+/proc/*/limits race?

Thanks a heap.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-03 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-02  9:45 [PATCH 1/2] core: add lockless update_rlimit_cpu Jiri Slaby
2009-09-02  9:45 ` [PATCH 2/2] core: allow setrlimit to non-current tasks Jiri Slaby
2009-09-02  9:47   ` Jiri Slaby
2009-09-02 13:50   ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-09-02 18:44     ` Jiri Slaby
2009-09-02 21:51       ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-09-03 13:47         ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2009-09-03 13:52           ` [PATCH] " Jiri Slaby
2009-09-03 17:41             ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-09-03 20:08               ` [PATCH v2 1/8] SECURITY: selinux, fix update_rlimit_cpu parameter Jiri Slaby
2009-09-03 20:08               ` [PATCH v2 2/8] SECURITY: add task_struct to setrlimit Jiri Slaby
2009-09-03 20:08               ` [PATCH v2 3/8] core: add task_struct to update_rlimit_cpu Jiri Slaby
2009-09-03 20:08               ` [PATCH v2 4/8] sys_setrlimit: make sure ->rlim_max never grows Jiri Slaby
2009-09-03 20:08               ` [PATCH v2 5/8] core: split sys_setrlimit Jiri Slaby
2009-09-03 20:08               ` [PATCH v2 6/8] core: allow setrlimit to non-current tasks Jiri Slaby
2009-09-03 20:08               ` [PATCH v2 7/8] core: optimize setrlimit for current task Jiri Slaby
2009-09-03 20:08               ` [PATCH v2 8/8] FS: proc, make limits writable Jiri Slaby
2009-09-04 14:26                 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-10-08 20:55                   ` Jiri Slaby
2009-10-12 15:13                     ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-09-03 17:20           ` [PATCH 0/1] sys_setrlimit: make sure ->rlim_max never grows Oleg Nesterov
2009-09-03 17:21           ` [PATCH 1/1] " Oleg Nesterov

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