[PATCH 3.8 64/81] ipc,mqueue: remove limits for the amount of system-wide queues

[Kamal Mostafa]

3.8.13.20 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@xxxxxx>

commit f3713fd9cff733d9df83116422d8e4af6e86b2bb upstream.

Commit 93e6f119c0ce ("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@xxxxxx>
Reported-by: Madars Vitolins <m@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/linux/ipc_namespace.h |  2 --
 ipc/mq_sysctl.c               | 18 ++++++++++++------
 ipc/mqueue.c                  |  6 +++---
 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/ipc_namespace.h b/include/linux/ipc_namespace.h
index c4d870b..c8db9ca 100644
--- a/include/linux/ipc_namespace.h
+++ b/include/linux/ipc_namespace.h
@@ -119,9 +119,7 @@ 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
diff --git a/ipc/mq_sysctl.c b/ipc/mq_sysctl.c
index 383d638..5bb8bfe 100644
--- a/ipc/mq_sysctl.c
+++ b/ipc/mq_sysctl.c
@@ -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",
diff --git a/ipc/mqueue.c b/ipc/mqueue.c
index f3f40dc..f2fa658 100644
--- a/ipc/mqueue.c
+++ b/ipc/mqueue.c
@@ -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;
 	}
-- 
1.8.3.2

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