setpriority(PRIO_USER, 0, x) will change the priority of tasks outside
of the current pid namespace. This is in contrast to both the other
modes of setpriority and the example of kill(-1). Fix this. getpriority
and ioprio have the same failure mode, fix them too.

Signed-off-by: Ben Segall <bseg...@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <o...@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---
 block/ioprio.c | 6 ++++--
 kernel/sys.c   | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/ioprio.c b/block/ioprio.c
index 31666c9..cc7800e 100644
--- a/block/ioprio.c
+++ b/block/ioprio.c
@@ -123,7 +123,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(ioprio_set, int, which, int, who, int, 
ioprio)
                                break;
 
                        do_each_thread(g, p) {
-                               if (!uid_eq(task_uid(p), uid))
+                               if (!uid_eq(task_uid(p), uid) ||
+                                   !task_pid_vnr(p))
                                        continue;
                                ret = set_task_ioprio(p, ioprio);
                                if (ret)
@@ -220,7 +221,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(ioprio_get, int, which, int, who)
                                break;
 
                        do_each_thread(g, p) {
-                               if (!uid_eq(task_uid(p), user->uid))
+                               if (!uid_eq(task_uid(p), user->uid) ||
+                                   !task_pid_vnr(p))
                                        continue;
                                tmpio = get_task_ioprio(p);
                                if (tmpio < 0)
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index fa2f2f6..6af9212 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(setpriority, int, which, int, who, int, 
niceval)
                                goto out_unlock;        /* No processes for 
this user */
                }
                do_each_thread(g, p) {
-                       if (uid_eq(task_uid(p), uid))
+                       if (uid_eq(task_uid(p), uid) && task_pid_vnr(p))
                                error = set_one_prio(p, niceval, error);
                } while_each_thread(g, p);
                if (!uid_eq(uid, cred->uid))
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(getpriority, int, which, int, who)
                                goto out_unlock;        /* No processes for 
this user */
                }
                do_each_thread(g, p) {
-                       if (uid_eq(task_uid(p), uid)) {
+                       if (uid_eq(task_uid(p), uid) && task_pid_vnr(p)) {
                                niceval = nice_to_rlimit(task_nice(p));
                                if (niceval > retval)
                                        retval = niceval;
-- 
2.6.0.rc0.131.gf624c3d

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