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authorDoug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>2012-05-31 16:26:28 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-05-31 17:49:30 -0700
commit93e6f119c0ce8a1bba6e81dc8dd97d67be360844 (patch)
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ipc/mqueue: cleanup definition names and locations
Since commit b231cca4381e ("message queues: increase range limits") on Oct 18, 2008, calls to mq_open() that did not pass in an attribute struct and expected to get default values for the size of the queue and the max message size now get the system wide maximums instead of hardwired defaults like they used to get. This was uncovered when one of the earlier patches in this patch set increased the default system wide maximums at the same time it increased the hard ceiling on the system wide maximums (a customer specifically needed the hard ceiling brought back up, the new ceiling that commit b231cca4381e introduced was too low for their production systems). By increasing the default maximums and not realising they were tied to any attempt to create a message queue without an attribute struct, I had inadvertently made it such that all message queue creation attempts without an attribute struct were failing because the new default maximums would create a queue that exceeded the default rlimit for message queue bytes. As a result, the system wide defaults were brought back down to their previous levels, and the system wide ceilings on the maximums were raised to meet the customer's needs. However, the fact that the no attribute struct behavior of mq_open() could be broken by changing the system wide maximums for message queues was seen as fundamentally broken itself. So we hardwired the no attribute case back like it used to be. But, then we realized that on the very off chance that some piece of software in the wild depended on that behavior, we could work around that issue by adding two new knobs to /proc that allowed setting the defaults for message queues created without an attr struct separately from the system wide maximums. What is not an option IMO is to leave the current behavior in place. No piece of software should ever rely on setting the system wide maximums in order to get a desired message queue. Such a reliance would be so fundamentally multitasking OS unfriendly as to not really be tolerable. Fortunately, we don't know of any software in the wild that uses this except for a regression test program that caught the issue in the first place. If there is though, we have made accommodations with the two new /proc knobs (and that's all the accommodations such fundamentally broken software can be allowed).. This patch: The various defines for minimums and maximums of the sysctl controllable mqueue values are scattered amongst different files and named inconsistently. Move them all into ipc_namespace.h and make them have consistent names. Additionally, make the number of queues per namespace also have a minimum and maximum and use the same sysctl function as the other two settable variables. Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'ipc')
-rw-r--r--ipc/mq_sysctl.c31
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/ipc/mq_sysctl.c b/ipc/mq_sysctl.c
index 0c09366b96f3..e22336a09b4a 100644
--- a/ipc/mq_sysctl.c
+++ b/ipc/mq_sysctl.c
@@ -13,15 +13,6 @@
#include <linux/ipc_namespace.h>
#include <linux/sysctl.h>
-/*
- * Define the ranges various user-specified maximum values can
- * be set to.
- */
-#define MIN_MSGMAX 1 /* min value for msg_max */
-#define MAX_MSGMAX HARD_MSGMAX /* max value for msg_max */
-#define MIN_MSGSIZEMAX 128 /* min value for msgsize_max */
-#define MAX_MSGSIZEMAX (8192*128) /* max value for msgsize_max */
-
#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL
static void *get_mq(ctl_table *table)
{
@@ -31,16 +22,6 @@ 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)
{
@@ -52,15 +33,17 @@ static int proc_mq_dointvec_minmax(ctl_table *table, int write,
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 = MAX_MSGMAX;
+static int msg_max_limit_max = HARD_MSGMAX;
static int msg_maxsize_limit_min = MIN_MSGSIZEMAX;
-static int msg_maxsize_limit_max = MAX_MSGSIZEMAX;
+static int msg_maxsize_limit_max = HARD_MSGSIZEMAX;
static ctl_table mq_sysctls[] = {
{
@@ -68,7 +51,9 @@ static ctl_table mq_sysctls[] = {
.data = &init_ipc_ns.mq_queues_max,
.maxlen = sizeof(int),
.mode = 0644,
- .proc_handler = proc_mq_dointvec,
+ .proc_handler = proc_mq_dointvec_minmax,
+ .extra1 = &msg_queues_limit_min,
+ .extra2 = &msg_queues_limit_max,
},
{
.procname = "msg_max",