This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ipc,mqueue: remove limits for the amount of system-wide
to the 3.13-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
ipc-mqueue-remove-limits-for-the-amount-of-system-wide.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.13 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From f3713fd9cff733d9df83116422d8e4af6e86b2bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:01:45 -0800
Subject: ipc,mqueue: remove limits for the amount of system-wide
queues
From: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@xxxxxx>
commit f3713fd9cff733d9df83116422d8e4af6e86b2bb upstream.
Commit 93e6f119c0ce ("ipc/mqueue: cleanup definition names and
locations") added global hardcoded limits to the amount of message
queues that can be created. While these limits are per-namespace,
reality is that it ends up breaking userspace applications.
Historically users have, at least in theory, been able to create up to
INT_MAX queues, and limiting it to just 1024 is way too low and dramatic
for some workloads and use cases. For instance, Madars reports:
"This update imposes bad limits on our multi-process application. As
our app uses approaches that each process opens its own set of queues
(usually something about 3-5 queues per process). In some scenarios
we might run up to 3000 processes or more (which of-course for linux
is not a problem). Thus we might need up to 9000 queues or more. All
processes run under one user."
Other affected users can be found in launchpad bug #1155695:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/manpages/+bug/1155695
Instead of increasing this limit, revert it entirely and fallback to the
original way of dealing queue limits -- where once a user's resource
limit is reached, and all memory is used, new queues cannot be created.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@xxxxxx>
Reported-by: Madars Vitolins <m@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/ipc_namespace.h | 2 --
ipc/mq_sysctl.c | 18 ++++++++++++------
ipc/mqueue.c | 6 +++---
3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
--- a/include/linux/ipc_namespace.h
+++ b/include/linux/ipc_namespace.h
@@ -119,9 +119,7 @@ extern int mq_init_ns(struct ipc_namespa
* the new maximum will handle anyone else. I may have to revisit this
* in the future.
*/
-#define MIN_QUEUESMAX 1
#define DFLT_QUEUESMAX 256
-#define HARD_QUEUESMAX 1024
#define MIN_MSGMAX 1
#define DFLT_MSG 10U
#define DFLT_MSGMAX 10
--- a/ipc/mq_sysctl.c
+++ b/ipc/mq_sysctl.c
@@ -22,6 +22,16 @@ static void *get_mq(ctl_table *table)
return which;
}
+static int proc_mq_dointvec(ctl_table *table, int write,
+ void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
+{
+ struct ctl_table mq_table;
+ memcpy(&mq_table, table, sizeof(mq_table));
+ mq_table.data = get_mq(table);
+
+ return proc_dointvec(&mq_table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
+}
+
static int proc_mq_dointvec_minmax(ctl_table *table, int write,
void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
{
@@ -33,12 +43,10 @@ static int proc_mq_dointvec_minmax(ctl_t
lenp, ppos);
}
#else
+#define proc_mq_dointvec NULL
#define proc_mq_dointvec_minmax NULL
#endif
-static int msg_queues_limit_min = MIN_QUEUESMAX;
-static int msg_queues_limit_max = HARD_QUEUESMAX;
-
static int msg_max_limit_min = MIN_MSGMAX;
static int msg_max_limit_max = HARD_MSGMAX;
@@ -51,9 +59,7 @@ static ctl_table mq_sysctls[] = {
.data = &init_ipc_ns.mq_queues_max,
.maxlen = sizeof(int),
.mode = 0644,
- .proc_handler = proc_mq_dointvec_minmax,
- .extra1 = &msg_queues_limit_min,
- .extra2 = &msg_queues_limit_max,
+ .proc_handler = proc_mq_dointvec,
},
{
.procname = "msg_max",
--- a/ipc/mqueue.c
+++ b/ipc/mqueue.c
@@ -433,9 +433,9 @@ static int mqueue_create(struct inode *d
error = -EACCES;
goto out_unlock;
}
- if (ipc_ns->mq_queues_count >= HARD_QUEUESMAX ||
- (ipc_ns->mq_queues_count >= ipc_ns->mq_queues_max &&
- !capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE))) {
+
+ if (ipc_ns->mq_queues_count >= ipc_ns->mq_queues_max &&
+ !capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE)) {
error = -ENOSPC;
goto out_unlock;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from davidlohr@xxxxxx are
queue-3.13/ipc-mqueue-remove-limits-for-the-amount-of-system-wide.patch
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