main: when generating the resource limit to pass to children, take FD_SETSIZE into consideration

When we synthesize a "struct rlimit" structure to pass on for
RLIMIT_NOFILE to our children, let's explicitly make sure that the soft
limit is not above FD_SETSIZE, for compat reason with select().

Note this only applies when we derive the "struct rlimit" from what we
inherited. If the user configures something explicitly it always takes
precedence.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/core/main.c b/src/core/main.c
index 1b81542e8c..561f956f0a 100644
--- a/src/core/main.c
+++ b/src/core/main.c
@@ -1304,6 +1304,11 @@ static int bump_rlimit_nofile(struct rlimit *saved_rlimit) {
                 if (arg_system)
                         rl->rlim_max = MIN((rlim_t) nr, MAX(rl->rlim_max, (rlim_t) HIGH_RLIMIT_NOFILE));
 
+                /* If for some reason we were invoked with a soft limit above 1024 (which should never
+                 * happen!, but who knows what we get passed in from pam_limit when invoked as --user
+                 * instance), then lower what we pass on to not confuse our children */
+                rl->rlim_cur = MIN(rl->rlim_cur, (rlim_t) FD_SETSIZE);
+
                 arg_default_rlimit[RLIMIT_NOFILE] = rl;
         }