CVE-2024-50271

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

signal: restore the override_rlimit logic

Prior to commit d64696905554 ("Reimplement RLIMITSIGPENDING on top of ucounts") UCOUNTRLIMITSIGPENDING rlimit was not enforced for a class of signals. However now it's enforced unconditionally, even if overriderlimit is set. This behavior change caused production issues.

For example, if the limit is reached and a process receives a SIGSEGV signal, sigqueue_alloc fails to allocate the necessary resources for the signal delivery, preventing the signal from being delivered with siginfo. This prevents the process from correctly identifying the fault address and handling the error. From the user-space perspective, applications are unaware that the limit has been reached and that the siginfo is effectively 'corrupted'. This can lead to unpredictable behavior and crashes, as we observed with java applications.

Fix this by passing overriderlimit into incrlimitgetucounts() and skip the comparison to max there if override_rlimit is set. This effectively restores the old behavior.