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| author | Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-10-11 13:53:43 -0700 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2018-05-26 08:48:51 +0200 |
| commit | 7d56aed52b52450181c7ba58cb680739cb7e5737 (patch) | |
| tree | 56028ba8ee1a670fd868e2fd7d849868817ae025 /fs | |
| parent | e28debec24f5c40ac5752bd2fc3b2e686e9010d0 (diff) | |
| download | linux-cip-7d56aed52b52450181c7ba58cb680739cb7e5737.tar.gz | |
pipe: cap initial pipe capacity according to pipe-max-size limit
commit 086e774a57fba4695f14383c0818994c0b31da7c upstream.
This is a patch that provides behavior that is more consistent, and
probably less surprising to users. I consider the change optional, and
welcome opinions about whether it should be applied.
By default, pipes are created with a capacity of 64 kiB. However,
/proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size may be set smaller than this value. In this
scenario, an unprivileged user could thus create a pipe whose initial
capacity exceeds the limit. Therefore, it seems logical to cap the
initial pipe capacity according to the value of pipe-max-size.
The test program shown earlier in this patch series can be used to
demonstrate the effect of the change brought about with this patch:
# cat /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size
1048576
# sudo -u mtk ./test_F_SETPIPE_SZ 1
Initial pipe capacity: 65536
# echo 10000 > /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size
# cat /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size
16384
# sudo -u mtk ./test_F_SETPIPE_SZ 1
Initial pipe capacity: 16384
# ./test_F_SETPIPE_SZ 1
Initial pipe capacity: 65536
The last two executions of 'test_F_SETPIPE_SZ' show that pipe-max-size
caps the initial allocation for a new pipe for unprivileged users, but
not for privileged users.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/31dc7064-2a17-9c5b-1df1-4e3012ee992c@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: <socketpair@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Sangorrin <daniel.sangorrin@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/pipe.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/pipe.c b/fs/pipe.c index 39eff9a672535f..1e7263bb837a6f 100644 --- a/fs/pipe.c +++ b/fs/pipe.c @@ -616,6 +616,9 @@ struct pipe_inode_info *alloc_pipe_info(void) unsigned long pipe_bufs = PIPE_DEF_BUFFERS; struct user_struct *user = get_current_user(); + if (pipe_bufs * PAGE_SIZE > pipe_max_size && !capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE)) + pipe_bufs = pipe_max_size >> PAGE_SHIFT; + if (!too_many_pipe_buffers_hard(user)) { if (too_many_pipe_buffers_soft(user)) pipe_bufs = 1; |