[jail] Allowing root privledged users to renice

Sean Bruno seanbru at yahoo-inc.com
Fri May 25 16:48:53 UTC 2012


I've been toying with the idea of letting jails renice processes ... how
dangerous and/or stupid is this idea?

==== //depot/yahoo/ybsd_9/src/sys/kern/kern_jail.c#5 -
/home/seanbru/ybsd_9/src/sys/kern/kern_jail.c ====
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+ int   jail_allow_renice = 0;
+ SYSCTL_INT(_security_jail, OID_AUTO, allow_renice, CTLFLAG_RW,
+    &jail_allow_renice, 0,
+    "Prison root can renice processes");
 
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+      case PRIV_SCHED_SETPRIORITY:
+              if (!jail_allow_renice)
+                       return (EPERM);






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