Re: [HTCondor-users] Simplest way to change ulimit for all new jobs

[Todd Tannenbaum <tannenba@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/4/2018 6:54 AM, Sean Crosby wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> As I'm sure most of you are aware, there is a security bug with the RHEL 
> kernels (CVE-2018-14634) which needs to be patched.
> 
> As there is no new kernel for RHEL 6 yet, the mitigation is to reduce 
> the stack size ulimit (ulimit -Hs 16000000)
> 
> I have tried adding the stack size ulimit to profile.d on the worker 
> node, but jobs run via HTCondor are not picking this value up.
> 
> Does anyone have an easy way to ensure jobs (and their child processes) 
> pick up the new stack size hard limit?
> 
> Jobs are being submitted via ARC-CE, if that helps.
> 
> Cheers,
> Sean
> 

Hi Sean,

For the above, assuming you installed HTCondor from system packages, here is the CVE-2018-14634 mitigation for HTCondor that I recommend -


** For HTCondor v8.6.x+ installed from RPMs on RHEL6, SL6, Centos6 (i.e. distros running init):

As root run the following commands:

   sed -i 's/ULIMIT_FLAGS=.*/ULIMIT_FLAGS="-Hs 16000000"/' /etc/sysconfig/condor
   service condor restart

** For HTCondor v8.6.x+ installed from RPMs or DEBs on RHEL7, Centos7, SL7, Debian, or Ubuntu (i.e. distros running systemd):

As root run the following commands:

  mkdir /etc/systemd/system/condor.service.d
  echo -e '[Service]\nLimitSTACK=16G\n' > /etc/systemd/system/condor.service.d/CVE-2018-14634.conf
  systemctl restart condor



Comments/concerns welcome. Hope the above helps.  

regards,
Todd


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Todd Tannenbaum <tannenba@xxxxxxxxxxx> University of Wisconsin-Madison
Center for High Throughput Computing   Department of Computer Sciences
HTCondor Technical Lead                1210 W. Dayton St. Rm #4257