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| author | Herbert van den Bergh <Herbert.van.den.Bergh@oracle.com> | 2007-07-15 23:38:25 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-07-16 09:05:37 -0700 |
| commit | 5ed44a401ddfc60e11c3484e86f0c8285051139a (patch) | |
| tree | 96a44aac2853fc38aac801b3b628fb58adada2fb /mm/mlock.c | |
| parent | 84a01c2f8ea9bf210b961c6301e8e870a46505a6 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-5ed44a401ddfc60e11c3484e86f0c8285051139a.tar.gz lwn-5ed44a401ddfc60e11c3484e86f0c8285051139a.zip | |
do not limit locked memory when RLIMIT_MEMLOCK is RLIM_INFINITY
Fix a bug in mm/mlock.c on 32-bit architectures that prevents a user from
locking more than 4GB of shared memory, or allocating more than 4GB of
shared memory in hugepages, when rlim[RLIMIT_MEMLOCK] is set to
RLIM_INFINITY.
Signed-off-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/mlock.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/mlock.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mlock.c b/mm/mlock.c index 4d3fea267e0d..7b2656055d6a 100644 --- a/mm/mlock.c +++ b/mm/mlock.c @@ -244,9 +244,12 @@ int user_shm_lock(size_t size, struct user_struct *user) locked = (size + PAGE_SIZE - 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT; lock_limit = current->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_MEMLOCK].rlim_cur; + if (lock_limit == RLIM_INFINITY) + allowed = 1; lock_limit >>= PAGE_SHIFT; spin_lock(&shmlock_user_lock); - if (locked + user->locked_shm > lock_limit && !capable(CAP_IPC_LOCK)) + if (!allowed && + locked + user->locked_shm > lock_limit && !capable(CAP_IPC_LOCK)) goto out; get_uid(user); user->locked_shm += locked; |