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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt | 23 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 15 |
2 files changed, 30 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt index 88152f214f48..302b5ed616a6 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt @@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/fs: - nr_open - overflowuid - overflowgid +- pipe-user-pages-hard +- pipe-user-pages-soft - protected_hardlinks - protected_symlinks - suid_dumpable @@ -159,6 +161,27 @@ The default is 65534. ============================================================== +pipe-user-pages-hard: + +Maximum total number of pages a non-privileged user may allocate for pipes. +Once this limit is reached, no new pipes may be allocated until usage goes +below the limit again. When set to 0, no limit is applied, which is the default +setting. + +============================================================== + +pipe-user-pages-soft: + +Maximum total number of pages a non-privileged user may allocate for pipes +before the pipe size gets limited to a single page. Once this limit is reached, +new pipes will be limited to a single page in size for this user in order to +limit total memory usage, and trying to increase them using fcntl() will be +denied until usage goes below the limit again. The default value allows to +allocate up to 1024 pipes at their default size. When set to 0, no limit is +applied. + +============================================================== + protected_hardlinks: A long-standing class of security issues is the hardlink-based diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt index 73c6b1ef0e84..a93b414672a7 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt @@ -825,14 +825,13 @@ via the /proc/sys interface: Each write syscall must fully contain the sysctl value to be written, and multiple writes on the same sysctl file descriptor will rewrite the sysctl value, regardless of file position. - 0 - (default) Same behavior as above, but warn about processes that - perform writes to a sysctl file descriptor when the file position - is not 0. - 1 - Respect file position when writing sysctl strings. Multiple writes - will append to the sysctl value buffer. Anything past the max length - of the sysctl value buffer will be ignored. Writes to numeric sysctl - entries must always be at file position 0 and the value must be - fully contained in the buffer sent in the write syscall. + 0 - Same behavior as above, but warn about processes that perform writes + to a sysctl file descriptor when the file position is not 0. + 1 - (default) Respect file position when writing sysctl strings. Multiple + writes will append to the sysctl value buffer. Anything past the max + length of the sysctl value buffer will be ignored. Writes to numeric + sysctl entries must always be at file position 0 and the value must + be fully contained in the buffer sent in the write syscall. ============================================================== |