ipc,mqueue: remove limits for the amount of system-wide queues

Commit 93e6f119c0 ("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>
This commit is contained in:
Davidlohr Bueso 2014-02-25 15:01:45 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 08088cb9ac
commit f3713fd9cf
3 changed files with 15 additions and 11 deletions

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@ -118,9 +118,7 @@ extern int mq_init_ns(struct ipc_namespace *ns);
* the new maximum will handle anyone else. I may have to revisit this
* in the future.
*/
#define MIN_QUEUESMAX 1
#define DFLT_QUEUESMAX 256
#define HARD_QUEUESMAX 1024
#define MIN_MSGMAX 1
#define DFLT_MSG 10U
#define DFLT_MSGMAX 10

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@ -22,6 +22,16 @@ 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)
{
@ -33,12 +43,10 @@ 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 = HARD_MSGMAX;
@ -51,9 +59,7 @@ static ctl_table mq_sysctls[] = {
.data = &init_ipc_ns.mq_queues_max,
.maxlen = sizeof(int),
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = proc_mq_dointvec_minmax,
.extra1 = &msg_queues_limit_min,
.extra2 = &msg_queues_limit_max,
.proc_handler = proc_mq_dointvec,
},
{
.procname = "msg_max",

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@ -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;
}