Re: [PATCH 5/4] ipc/mqueue: revert bump up DFLT_*MAX

[Joe Korty]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 11:37:10AM -0400, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> Mqueue limitation is slightly naieve parameter likes other ipcs
> because unprivileged user can consume kernel memory by using ipcs.
> 
> Thus, too aggressive raise bring us security issue. Example,
> current setting allow evil unprivileged user use 256GB (= 256
> * 1024 * 1024*1024) and it's enough large to system will belome
> unresponsive. Don't do that.
> 
> Instead, every admin should adjust the knobs for their own systems.
> 
> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Amerigo Wang <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Joe Korty <joe.korty@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  include/linux/ipc_namespace.h |    6 +++---
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/ipc_namespace.h b/include/linux/ipc_namespace.h
> index e2bac00..2d7c5e0 100644
> --- a/include/linux/ipc_namespace.h
> +++ b/include/linux/ipc_namespace.h
> @@ -118,12 +118,12 @@ extern int mq_init_ns(struct ipc_namespace *ns);
>  #define DFLT_QUEUESMAX		      256
>  #define HARD_QUEUESMAX		     1024
>  #define MIN_MSGMAX			1
> -#define DFLT_MSG		       64U
> -#define DFLT_MSGMAX		     1024
> +#define DFLT_MSG		       10U
> +#define DFLT_MSGMAX		       10
>  #define HARD_MSGMAX		    65536
>  #define MIN_MSGSIZEMAX		      128
>  #define DFLT_MSGSIZE		     8192U
> -#define DFLT_MSGSIZEMAX		(1024*1024)
> +#define DFLT_MSGSIZEMAX		     8192
>  #define HARD_MSGSIZEMAX	     (16*1024*1024)
>  #else
>  static inline int mq_init_ns(struct ipc_namespace *ns) { return 0; }
> -- 
> 1.7.5.2

Acked-by: Joe Korty <joe.korty@xxxxxxxx>

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