Commit 6730e658 authored by Waiman Long's avatar Waiman Long Committed by Linus Torvalds

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.comSigned-off-by: default avatarWaiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarLuis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDavidlohr 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: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent b49dec1c
......@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ static int proc_ipc_auto_msgmni(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
static int zero;
static int one = 1;
static int int_max = INT_MAX;
static int ipc_mni = IPCMNI;
static struct ctl_table ipc_kern_table[] = {
{
......@@ -120,7 +121,9 @@ static struct ctl_table ipc_kern_table[] = {
.data = &init_ipc_ns.shm_ctlmni,
.maxlen = sizeof(init_ipc_ns.shm_ctlmni),
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = proc_ipc_dointvec,
.proc_handler = proc_ipc_dointvec_minmax,
.extra1 = &zero,
.extra2 = &ipc_mni,
},
{
.procname = "shm_rmid_forced",
......@@ -147,7 +150,7 @@ static struct ctl_table ipc_kern_table[] = {
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = proc_ipc_dointvec_minmax,
.extra1 = &zero,
.extra2 = &int_max,
.extra2 = &ipc_mni,
},
{
.procname = "auto_msgmni",
......
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