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SubjectRe: [PATCH] no RLIMIT_NPROC for root, please
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Pavel Machek wrote:

> Hi!
>
> > > On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Jan Rekorajski wrote:
> > > > --- linux/kernel/fork.c~ Tue Sep 5 23:48:59 2000
> > > > +++ linux/kernel/fork.c Sun Nov 26 20:22:20 2000
> > > > @@ -560,7 +560,8 @@
> > > > *p = *current;
> > > >
> > > > retval = -EAGAIN;
> > > > - if (atomic_read(&p->user->processes) >= p->rlim[RLIMIT_NPROC].rlim_cur)
> > > > + if (p->user->uid &&
> > > > + (atomic_read(&p->user->processes) >= p->rlim[RLIMIT_NPROC].rlim_cur))
> > >
> > > Jan,
> > >
> > > Hardcoding things signifying special treatment of uid=0 is almost always a
> > > bad idea. If you _really_ think that superuser (whatever entity that might
> > > be) should be exempt from RLIMIT_NPROC and can prove that (SuSv2 seems to
> > > be silent so you may be right), then you should use capable() to do proper
> > > capability test and not that horrible explicit uid test as in your patch
> > > above.
> >
> > Ok, how about setting limits on login? When this looks like:
> >
> > --- uid = 0 here
> > setrlimit(RLIMIT_NPROC, n)
> > fork() <- this will fail if root has >n processes
> > setuid(user)
> >
> > and it is hard to change this sequence, all PAM enabled apps depend
> > on it :(
>
> So PAM dictates kernel changes? Fix pam, do not break kernel.

Fixed :)

Jan
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