On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:26:24 -0700 Herbert van den Bergh wrote:
>
> This patch fixes 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.
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> Signed-off-by: Herbert van den Bergh <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Chris Mason <[email protected]>
>
> --- linux-2.6.22/mm/mlock.c.orig 2007-07-09 10:19:31.000000000 -0700
> +++ linux-2.6.22/mm/mlock.c 2007-07-09 10:19:19.000000000 -0700
> @@ -244,9 +244,12 @@ int user_shm_lock(size_t size, struct us
>
> 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;
---
~Randy
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