Re: next-20080808: bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

From: James Morris
Date: Sun Aug 10 2008 - 20:44:46 EST


On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, David Howells wrote:

> Grant Wilson <grant.wilson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > [ 223.039938] Rlimit EAGAIN (-1 >= 16375, uid 1000)
> > [ 223.044744] copy_process() = -11
> > [ 226.660319] Rlimit EAGAIN (-1 >= 16375, uid 1000)
> > [ 226.664166] copy_process() = -11
>
> Can you try the attached patch please?

This is working for me. I'll push it to next-creds so it (hopefully) gets
into the next linux-next for wider testing.


>
> David
> ---
> CRED: Inc the user processes count on cred share return from copy_creds()
>
> From: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Increment the user processes count in the case where copy_creds() returns after
> sharing the parent's credentials instead of allocating new ones.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> kernel/cred.c | 1 +
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
>
> diff --git a/kernel/cred.c b/kernel/cred.c
> index f89c5e5..056ec90 100644
> --- a/kernel/cred.c
> +++ b/kernel/cred.c
> @@ -299,6 +299,7 @@ int copy_creds(struct task_struct *p, unsigned long clone_flags)
> #endif
> p->real_cred = get_cred(p->cred);
> get_cred(p->cred);
> + atomic_inc(&p->cred->user->processes);
> return 0;
> }
>
>

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James Morris
<jmorris@xxxxxxxxx>
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