Since kernel v5.2, BPF maps and programs are charged against RLIMT_MEMLOCK. By default this limit is 64KB however all of these are already taken (16 patges) by the time we've booted on Fedora. This results in a permission denied. The error message is confusing since error happens when running as root. systemd works around this problem by setting setrlimit(RLIMIT_MEMLOCK) to 64MB. Do the the same. Signed-off-by: Sean Young <sean@xxxxxxxx> --- utils/keytable/keytable.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/utils/keytable/keytable.c b/utils/keytable/keytable.c index 70fbb822..986503a0 100644 --- a/utils/keytable/keytable.c +++ b/utils/keytable/keytable.c @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ #include <linux/lirc.h> #include <sys/ioctl.h> #include <sys/types.h> +#include <sys/resource.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <dirent.h> #include <argp.h> @@ -1698,9 +1699,14 @@ static void device_info(int fd, char *prepend) #ifdef HAVE_BPF #define MAX_PROGS 64 +// This value is what systemd sets PID 1 to, see: +// https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/src/basic/def.h#L60 +#define HIGH_RLIMIT_MEMLOCK (1024ULL*1024ULL*64ULL) + static void attach_bpf(const char *lirc_name, const char *bpf_prog, struct protocol_param *param) { unsigned int features; + struct rlimit rl; int fd; fd = open(lirc_name, O_RDONLY); @@ -1721,6 +1727,14 @@ static void attach_bpf(const char *lirc_name, const char *bpf_prog, struct proto return; } + // BPF programs are charged against RLIMIT_MEMLOCK. We'll need pages + // for the state, program text, and any raw IR. None of these are + // particularly large. However, the kernel defaults to 64KB + // memlock, which is only 16 pages which are mostly used by the + // time we are trying to load our BPF program. + rl.rlim_cur = rl.rlim_max = HIGH_RLIMIT_MEMLOCK; + (void) setrlimit(RLIMIT_MEMLOCK, &rl); + load_bpf_file(bpf_prog, fd, param, rawtable); close(fd); } -- 2.21.0