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authorHerbert van den Bergh <Herbert.van.den.Bergh@oracle.com>2007-07-15 23:38:25 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-07-16 09:05:37 -0700
commit5ed44a401ddfc60e11c3484e86f0c8285051139a (patch)
tree96a44aac2853fc38aac801b3b628fb58adada2fb /mm/mlock.c
parent84a01c2f8ea9bf210b961c6301e8e870a46505a6 (diff)
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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.c5
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;