dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Reset Linux OOM score adjustment here

Previously, we were relying on the system bus being able to reset
its OOM score adjustment after it forks, but before it execs the
dbus-daemon-launch-helper. However, it can't actually do that (leading
to dbus#378), because the system bus typically starts as root, uses its
root privileges to adjust resource limits, and then drops privileges
to the `@DBUS_USER@`, typically `dbus` or `messagebus`. This leaves the
pseudo-files in /proc for its process parameters owned by root, and the
`@DBUS_USER@` is not allowed to open them for writing.

The dbus-daemon-launch-helper is setuid root, so it can certainly
alter its OOM score adjustment before exec'ing the actual activated
service. We need to do this before dropping privileges, because after
dropping privileges we would be unable to write to this process
parameter.

This is a non-async-signal-safe context, so we can safely log errors
here, unlike the fork-and-exec code paths.

Resolves: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/-/issues/378
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/bus/activation-helper.c b/bus/activation-helper.c
index 8172b6cf..8a4fd732 100644
--- a/bus/activation-helper.c
+++ b/bus/activation-helper.c
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
 #include "activation-helper.h"
 #include "activation-exit-codes.h"
 
+#include <errno.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <string.h>
@@ -43,6 +44,7 @@
 #include <dbus/dbus-misc.h>
 #include <dbus/dbus-shell.h>
 #include <dbus/dbus-marshal-validate.h>
+#include <dbus/dbus-sysdeps-unix.h>
 
 static BusDesktopFile *
 desktop_file_for_name (BusConfigParser *parser,
@@ -337,11 +339,17 @@ exec_for_correct_user (char *exec, char *user, DBusError *error)
   char **argv;
   int argc;
   dbus_bool_t retval;
+  const char *error_str = NULL;
 
   argc = 0;
   retval = TRUE;
   argv = NULL;
 
+  /* Resetting the OOM score adjustment is best-effort, so we don't
+   * treat a failure to do so as fatal. */
+  if (!_dbus_reset_oom_score_adj (&error_str))
+    _dbus_warn ("%s: %s", error_str, strerror (errno));
+
   if (!switch_user (user, error))
     return FALSE;