Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:59:08 +0200
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       earl_chew@agilent.com, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
       Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] exec: Make do_coredump more robust and safer when
	using pipes in core_pattern: recursive dump detection
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On 06/26, Neil Horman wrote:
>
> +		if (core_limit == 0) {
> +			 /*
> +			 * Normally core limits are irrelevant to pipes, since
> +			 * we're not writing to the file system, but we use
> +			 * core_limit of 0 here as a speacial value. Any
> +			 * non-zero limit gets set to RLIM_INFINITY below, but
> +			 * a limit of 0 skips the dump.  This is a consistent
> +			 * way to catch recursive crashes.  We can still crash
> +			 * if the core_pattern binary sets RLIM_CORE =  !0
> +			 * but it runs as root, and can do lots of stupid things
> +			 * Note that we use task_tgid_vnr here to grab the pid of the
> +			 * process group leader.  That way we get the right pid if a thread
> +			 * in a multi-threaded core_pattern process dies.
> +			 */
> +			printk(KERN_WARNING "Process %d(%s) has RLIMIT_CORE set to 0\n",
> +			       task_tgid_vnr(current), current->comm);
> +			printk(KERN_WARNING "Aborting core\n");

Andrew has already pointed out this, unprivileged-user-triggerable
printk.

Doesn't look good, if core_pattern starts with "|" any user can set
RLIMIT_CORE = 0 and then just do

	for (;;)
		if (pid = fork())
			kill(pid, SIGQUIT);

to DOS printk/syslog, no?

Oleg.

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