Re: [PATCH] proc: fix reported unit for RLIMIT_CPU

[Amerigo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 09:23:32PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
>/proc/$pid/limits should show RLIMIT_CPU as seconds, which is the unit
>used in kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c:
>
>        unsigned long psecs = cputime_to_secs(ptime);
>        ...
>        if (psecs >= sig->rlim[RLIMIT_CPU].rlim_max) {
>                ...
>                __group_send_sig_info(SIGKILL, SEND_SIG_PRIV, tsk);
>
>Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>


Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>

>---
> fs/proc/base.c |    2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
>index 3ce5ae9..5891360 100644
>--- a/fs/proc/base.c
>+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
>@@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ struct limit_names {
> };
> 
> static const struct limit_names lnames[RLIM_NLIMITS] = {
>-	[RLIMIT_CPU] = {"Max cpu time", "ms"},
>+	[RLIMIT_CPU] = {"Max cpu time", "seconds"},
> 	[RLIMIT_FSIZE] = {"Max file size", "bytes"},
> 	[RLIMIT_DATA] = {"Max data size", "bytes"},
> 	[RLIMIT_STACK] = {"Max stack size", "bytes"},
>-- 
>1.6.3.3
>
>-- 
>Kees Cook
>Ubuntu Security Team
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