On 08/21/2016 10:33 PM, Vegard Nossum wrote: > On 08/20/2016 01:17 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >> On 08/20/2016 08:56 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >>> On 08/19/2016 08:30 PM, Vegard Nossum wrote: >>>> Is there any reason why we couldn't do the (size > pipe_max_size) check >>>> before calling account_pipe_buffers()? >>> >>> No reason that I can see. Just a little more work to be done in the >>> code, I think. >> >> And, just so I make sure we're understanding each other... I assume you >> mean changing the code here to something like: > [...] >> if (nr_pages > pipe->buffers && >> size > pipe_max_size && !capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE)) >> return -EPERM; >> >> user_bufs = account_pipe_buffers(pipe->user, pipe->buffers, nr_pages); >> >> if (nr_pages > pipe->buffers && >> too_many_pipe_buffers_hard(user_bufs || >> too_many_pipe_buffers_soft(user_bufs)) && >> !capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE) && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) { >> ret = -EPERM; >> goto out_revert_acct; >> } >> >> Right? > > Yup, that's what I had in mind. Okay -- changed. > (The parantheses are messed up though.) Yup, was just a quick untested edit to make sure we meant the same thing. Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html