From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>
To: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>, Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 1/5] ipc: IPCMNI limit check for msgmni and shmmni
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 05:16:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180628031605.GJ21242@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1529317698-16575-2-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com>
On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 06:28:14PM +0800, Waiman Long wrote:
> 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.
>
> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Luis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-28 3:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-18 10:28 [PATCH v8 0/5] ipc: IPCMNI limit check for *mni & increase that limit Waiman Long
2018-06-18 10:28 ` [PATCH v8 1/5] ipc: IPCMNI limit check for msgmni and shmmni Waiman Long
2018-06-28 3:16 ` Luis R. Rodriguez [this message]
2018-08-17 16:51 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2018-06-18 10:28 ` [PATCH v8 2/5] ipc: IPCMNI limit check for semmni Waiman Long
2018-06-28 22:39 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2018-06-29 7:26 ` Waiman Long
2018-08-17 16:53 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2018-06-18 10:28 ` [PATCH v8 3/5] ipc: Allow boot time extension of IPCMNI from 32k to 2M Waiman Long
2018-08-17 16:45 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2018-08-18 1:15 ` Waiman Long
2018-10-02 16:32 ` Manfred Spraul
2018-10-02 17:43 ` Waiman Long
2018-06-18 10:28 ` [PATCH v8 4/5] ipc: Conserve sequence numbers in extended IPCMNI mode Waiman Long
2018-06-18 10:28 ` [PATCH v8 5/5] ipc: Add a new ipcmni_compat sysctl to fall back to old behavior Waiman Long
2018-06-18 11:36 ` kbuild test robot
2018-06-18 14:27 ` kbuild test robot
2018-08-17 16:50 ` [PATCH v8 0/5] ipc: IPCMNI limit check for *mni & increase that limit Davidlohr Bueso
2018-09-06 22:24 ` Andrew Morton
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