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authorHerbert van den Bergh <Herbert.van.den.Bergh@oracle.com>2007-07-15 23:38:25 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2007-08-09 14:27:41 -0700
commited173ab97b4faeeb2809a81c2fa0e6e4f979d5bb (patch)
treefa2015a9061562d15313f136efb0f368b40c2981 /mm/mlock.c
parent88656e13bea01b02f02a1dfcd3ba75a83e708648 (diff)
do not limit locked memory when RLIMIT_MEMLOCK is RLIM_INFINITY
Fix a bug in mm/mlock.c on 32-bit architectures that prevents a user from locking more than 4GB of shared memory, or allocating more than 4GB of shared memory in hugepages, when rlim[RLIMIT_MEMLOCK] is set to RLIM_INFINITY. Signed-off-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Acked-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/mlock.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/mlock.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mlock.c b/mm/mlock.c
index 4d3fea267e0d..7b2656055d6a 100644
--- a/mm/mlock.c
+++ b/mm/mlock.c
@@ -244,9 +244,12 @@ int user_shm_lock(size_t size, struct user_struct *user)
locked = (size + PAGE_SIZE - 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
lock_limit = current->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_MEMLOCK].rlim_cur;
+ if (lock_limit == RLIM_INFINITY)
+ allowed = 1;
lock_limit >>= PAGE_SHIFT;
spin_lock(&shmlock_user_lock);
- if (locked + user->locked_shm > lock_limit && !capable(CAP_IPC_LOCK))
+ if (!allowed &&
+ locked + user->locked_shm > lock_limit && !capable(CAP_IPC_LOCK))
goto out;
get_uid(user);
user->locked_shm += locked;