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| author | Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> | 2014-02-25 15:01:45 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-02-25 15:25:45 -0800 |
| commit | f3713fd9cff733d9df83116422d8e4af6e86b2bb (patch) | |
| tree | 58a1a64720424b7a4b32bc6d26ca23000c2ce414 /ipc/mqueue.c | |
| parent | 08088cb9ac0a9c28d4cf3efa4f6848a9b053ccfd (diff) | |
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ipc,mqueue: remove limits for the amount of system-wide queues
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@hp.com>
Reported-by: Madars Vitolins <m@silodev.com>
Acked-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.5+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'ipc/mqueue.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | ipc/mqueue.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/ipc/mqueue.c b/ipc/mqueue.c index ccf1f9fd263a..c3b31179122c 100644 --- a/ipc/mqueue.c +++ b/ipc/mqueue.c @@ -433,9 +433,9 @@ static int mqueue_create(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, 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; } |