Reimplement RLIMIT_NPROC on top of ucounts

The rlimit counter is tied to uid in the user_namespace. This allows
rlimit values to be specified in userns even if they are already
globally exceeded by the user. However, the value of the previous
user_namespaces cannot be exceeded.

To illustrate the impact of rlimits, let's say there is a program that
does not fork. Some service-A wants to run this program as user X in
multiple containers. Since the program never fork the service wants to
set RLIMIT_NPROC=1.

service-A
 \- program (uid=1000, container1, rlimit_nproc=1)
 \- program (uid=1000, container2, rlimit_nproc=1)

The service-A sets RLIMIT_NPROC=1 and runs the program in container1.
When the service-A tries to run a program with RLIMIT_NPROC=1 in
container2 it fails since user X already has one running process.

We cannot use existing inc_ucounts / dec_ucounts because they do not
allow us to exceed the maximum for the counter. Some rlimits can be
overlimited by root or if the user has the appropriate capability.

Changelog

v11:
* Change inc_rlimit_ucounts() which now returns top value of ucounts.
* Drop inc_rlimit_ucounts_and_test() because the return code of
  inc_rlimit_ucounts() can be checked.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c5286a8aa16d2d698c222f7532f3d735c82bc6bc.1619094428.git.legion@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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Alexey Gladkov 2021-04-22 14:27:11 +02:00 committed by Eric W. Biederman
parent b6c3365289
commit 21d1c5e386
11 changed files with 73 additions and 15 deletions

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@ -372,6 +372,7 @@ static inline void put_cred(const struct cred *_cred)
#define task_uid(task) (task_cred_xxx((task), uid))
#define task_euid(task) (task_cred_xxx((task), euid))
#define task_ucounts(task) (task_cred_xxx((task), ucounts))
#define current_cred_xxx(xxx) \
({ \
@ -388,6 +389,7 @@ static inline void put_cred(const struct cred *_cred)
#define current_fsgid() (current_cred_xxx(fsgid))
#define current_cap() (current_cred_xxx(cap_effective))
#define current_user() (current_cred_xxx(user))
#define current_ucounts() (current_cred_xxx(ucounts))
extern struct user_namespace init_user_ns;
#ifdef CONFIG_USER_NS