Re: [tip:x86/mm] x86/mmap, ASLR: Do not treat unlimited-stack tasks as legacy mmap

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Wed Jun 28 2017 - 05:40:21 EST


On Tue, 27 Jun 2017, Oleg Nesterov wrote:

> Perhaps it makes sense to reset RLIMITs on suid exec (say, if
> bprm->per_clear is not zero) ? Yes, it is not clear how should we define
> SANE_RLIMITS_FOR_SUID, and this should probably depend on sysctl, etc.

Hmm, this should be an userspace-defined policy. On a 'standard'
(PAM-based) system, I think a sane expectation would be to get the same
limits as the ones enforced by pam_limits configuration, but syncing those
with kernel feels awkward.

Thanks,

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs