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authorDmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>2019-07-22 11:59:00 +0200
committerDmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>2019-07-22 11:59:00 +0200
commitf3ad68446455acbe562e0057931e6256b8b991e8 (patch)
tree417ac927b0899ea1c5b190b0f6574e9ce8415b6a /executor/syscalls.h
parentbe348f6db38c583b804772f246e68146e52d20f4 (diff)
executor: drop CAP_SYS_NICE
A process with CAP_SYS_NICE can bring kernel down by asking for too high SCHED_DEADLINE priority, as the result rcu and other system services that use kernel threads will stop functioning. Some parameters for SCHED_DEADLINE should be OK, but we don't have means to enforce values of indirect syscall arguments. Peter Zijlstra proposed sysctl_deadline_period_{min,max} which could be used to enfore safe limits without droppping CAP_SYS_NICE, but we don't have it yet. See the following bug for details: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/syzkaller-bugs/G6Wl_PKPIWI
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