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ucount: Make get_ucount a safe get_user replacement

Chris von Recklinghausen requested to merge crecklin/centos-stream-9:bz2048624 into main

Bugzilla: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/2048624 CVE: CVE-2022-24122

commit f9d87929d451d3e649699d0f1d74f71f77ad38f5 Author: Eric W. Biederman ebiederm@xmission.com Date: Mon Jan 24 12:46:50 2022 -0600

ucount:  Make get_ucount a safe get_user replacement

When the ucount code was refactored to create get_ucount it was missed
that some of the contexts in which a rlimit is kept elevated can be
the only reference to the user/ucount in the system.

Ordinary ucount references exist in places that also have a reference
to the user namspace, but in POSIX message queues, the SysV shm code,
and the SIGPENDING code there is no independent user namespace
reference.

Inspection of the the user_namespace show no instance of circular
references between struct ucounts and the user_namespace.  So
hold a reference from struct ucount to i's user_namespace to
resolve this problem.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YZV7Z+yXbsx9p3JN@fixkernel.com/
Reported-by: Qian Cai <quic_qiancai@quicinc.com>
Reported-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@grsecurity.net>
Tested-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@grsecurity.net>
Reviewed-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@grsecurity.net>
Reviewed-by: Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>
Fixes: d64696905554 ("Reimplement RLIMIT_SIGPENDING on top of ucounts")
Fixes: 6e52a9f0532f ("Reimplement RLIMIT_MSGQUEUE on top of ucounts")
Fixes: d7c9e99aee48 ("Reimplement RLIMIT_MEMLOCK on top of ucounts")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

Signed-off-by: Chris von Recklinghausen crecklin@redhat.com

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