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Waiman Long 6730e65801 ipc: IPCMNI limit check for msgmni and shmmni
Patch series "ipc: IPCMNI limit check for *mni & increase that limit", v9.

The sysctl parameters msgmni, shmmni and semmni have an inherent limit of
IPC_MNI (32k).  However, users may not be aware of that because they can
write a value much higher than that without getting any error or
notification.  Reading the parameters back will show the newly written
values which are not real.

The real IPCMNI limit is now enforced to make sure that users won't put in
an unrealistic value.  The first 2 patches enforce the limits.

There are also users out there requesting increase in the IPCMNI value.
The last 2 patches attempt to do that by using a boot kernel parameter
"ipcmni_extend" to increase the IPCMNI limit from 32k to 8M if the users
really want the extended value.

This patch (of 4):

A user can write arbitrary integer values to msgmni and shmmni sysctl
parameters without getting error, but the actual limit is really IPCMNI
(32k).  This can mislead users as they think they can get a value that is
not real.

The right limits are now set for msgmni and shmmni so that the users will
become aware if they set a value outside of the acceptable range.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1536352137-12003-2-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-10-31 08:54:14 -07:00
arch kernel/signal.c: fix a comment error 2018-10-31 08:54:14 -07:00
block Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2018-10-26 19:33:41 -07:00
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Documentation The biggest change here is the updates to kprobes 2018-10-30 09:49:56 -07:00
drivers xen: fixes for 4.20-rc1 2018-10-30 09:31:07 -07:00
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fs fat: truncate inode timestamp updates in setattr 2018-10-31 08:54:14 -07:00
include include/linux/signal.h: mark expected switch fall-throughs 2018-10-31 08:54:14 -07:00
init init/do_mounts.c: add root=PARTLABEL=<name> support 2018-10-31 08:54:13 -07:00
ipc ipc: IPCMNI limit check for msgmni and shmmni 2018-10-31 08:54:14 -07:00
kernel kernel/panic.c: filter out a potential trailing newline 2018-10-31 08:54:14 -07:00
lib lib/kstrtox.c: delete unnecessary casts 2018-10-31 08:54:13 -07:00
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mm mm/gup_benchmark.c: prevent integer overflow in ioctl 2018-10-31 08:54:12 -07:00
net Pull request for inclusion in 4.20 2018-10-29 09:09:47 -07:00
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tools The biggest change here is the updates to kprobes 2018-10-30 09:49:56 -07:00
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Makefile Globally warn on VLA use 2018-10-28 13:26:45 -07:00
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