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Waiman Long authored
Patch series "ipc: Clamp *mni to the real IPCMNI limit", v3. The sysctl parameters msgmni, shmmni and semmni have an inherent limit of IPC_MNI (32k). However, users may not be aware of that because they can write a value much higher than that without getting any error or notification. Reading the parameters back will show the newly written values which are not real. Enforcing the limit by failing sysctl parameter write, however, can break existing user applications. To address this delemma, a new flags field is introduced into the ctl_table. The value CTL_FLAGS_CLAMP_RANGE can be added to any ctl_table entries to enable a looser range clamping without returning any error. For example, .flags = CTL_FLAGS_CLAMP_RANGE, This flags value are now used for the range checking of shmmni, msgmni and semmni without breaking existing applications. If any out of range value is written to those sysctl parameters, the following warning will be printed instead. Kernel parameter "shmmni" was set out of range [0, 32768], clamped to 32768. Reading the values back will show 32768 instead of some fake values. This patch (of 6): Fix a typo. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519926220-7453-2-git-send-email-longman@redhat.comSigned-off-by:
Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Reviewed-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by:
Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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