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Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com> wrote:
> Tasks are associated to multiple users at once. Historically and as per
> setrlimit(2) RLIMIT_NPROC is enforce based on real user ID.
>
> The commit 21d1c5e3 ("Reimplement RLIMIT_NPROC on top of ucounts")
> made the accounting structure "indexed" by euid and hence potentially
> account tasks differently.
>
> The effective user ID may be different e.g. for setuid programs but
> those are exec'd into already existing task (i.e. below limit), so
> different accounting is moot.
>
> Some special setresuid(2) users may notice the difference, justifying
> this fix.

I looked at cred->ucount and it is only used for rlimit operations
that were previously stored in cred->user.  Making the fact
cred->ucount can refer to a different user from cred->user a bug,
affecting all uses of cred->ulimit not just RLIMIT_NPROC.

Fix set_cred_ucounts to always use the real uid not the effective uid.

Further simplify set_cred_u...