linux/fs
Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) 086e774a57 pipe: cap initial pipe capacity according to pipe-max-size limit
This is a patch that provides behavior that is more consistent, and
probably less surprising to users. I consider the change optional, and
welcome opinions about whether it should be applied.

By default, pipes are created with a capacity of 64 kiB.  However,
/proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size may be set smaller than this value.  In this
scenario, an unprivileged user could thus create a pipe whose initial
capacity exceeds the limit. Therefore, it seems logical to cap the
initial pipe capacity according to the value of pipe-max-size.

The test program shown earlier in this patch series can be used to
demonstrate the effect of the change brought about with this patch:

    # cat /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size
    1048576
    # sudo -u mtk ./test_F_SETPIPE_SZ 1
    Initial pipe capacity: 65536
    # echo 10000 > /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size
    # cat /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size
    16384
    # sudo -u mtk ./test_F_SETPIPE_SZ 1
    Initial pipe capacity: 16384
    # ./test_F_SETPIPE_SZ 1
    Initial pipe capacity: 65536

The last two executions of 'test_F_SETPIPE_SZ' show that pipe-max-size
caps the initial allocation for a new pipe for unprivileged users, but
not for privileged users.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/31dc7064-2a17-9c5b-1df1-4e3012ee992c@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: <socketpair@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11 15:06:32 -07:00
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autofs4 autofs: refactor ioctl fn vector in iookup_dev_ioctl() 2016-10-11 15:06:31 -07:00
befs block: remove remnant refs to hardsect 2016-09-14 08:44:57 -06:00
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configfs Merge remote-tracking branch 'ovl/rename2' into for-linus 2016-10-10 23:02:51 -04:00
cramfs
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dlm dlm: free workqueues after the connections 2016-10-10 09:54:00 -05:00
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exportfs
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freevxfs
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isofs
jbd2 jbd2: fix lockdep annotation in add_transaction_credits() 2016-09-22 11:44:06 -04:00
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nilfs2 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-10 20:16:43 -07:00
nls
notify fsnotify: clean up spinlock assertions 2016-10-07 18:46:26 -07:00
ntfs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-10 20:16:43 -07:00
ocfs2 ocfs2: fix memory leak in dlm_migrate_request_handler() 2016-10-11 15:06:30 -07:00
omfs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-10 20:16:43 -07:00
openpromfs fs: Replace CURRENT_TIME with current_time() for inode timestamps 2016-09-27 21:06:21 -04:00
orangefs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-10 20:16:43 -07:00
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pstore Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-10 20:16:43 -07:00
qnx4
qnx6
quota quota: fill in Q_XGETQSTAT inode information for inactive quotas 2016-08-15 17:43:31 +02:00
ramfs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-10 20:16:43 -07:00
reiserfs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-10 20:16:43 -07:00
romfs
squashfs vfs: Remove {get,set,remove}xattr inode operations 2016-10-07 21:48:36 -04:00
sysfs sysfs print name of undiscoverable attribute group 2016-09-27 12:24:29 +02:00
sysv Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-10 20:16:43 -07:00
tracefs fs: Replace CURRENT_TIME with current_time() for inode timestamps 2016-09-27 21:06:21 -04:00
ubifs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-10 20:16:43 -07:00
udf Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-10 20:16:43 -07:00
ufs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-10 20:16:43 -07:00
xfs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-10 20:16:43 -07:00
aio.c fs/aio.c: eliminate redundant loads in put_aio_ring_file 2016-09-27 21:45:46 -04:00
anon_inodes.c
attr.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-10 20:16:43 -07:00
bad_inode.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-10 20:16:43 -07:00
binfmt_aout.c
binfmt_elf_fdpic.c
binfmt_elf.c x86/coredump: Use pr_reg size, rather that TIF_IA32 flag 2016-09-14 21:28:10 +02:00
binfmt_em86.c
binfmt_flat.c
binfmt_misc.c fs: Replace current_fs_time() with current_time() 2016-09-27 21:06:22 -04:00
binfmt_script.c
block_dev.c block: implement (some of) fallocate for block devices 2016-10-11 15:06:30 -07:00
buffer.c fs/buffer.c: make __getblk_slow() static 2016-09-27 18:47:38 -04:00
char_dev.c
compat_binfmt_elf.c
compat_ioctl.c
compat.c compat: remove compat_printk() 2016-09-27 21:20:53 -04:00
coredump.c
dax.c thp: reduce usage of huge zero page's atomic counter 2016-10-07 18:46:28 -07:00
dcache.c Merge branch 'for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-08-07 10:01:14 -04:00
dcookies.c
direct-io.c consistent treatment of EFAULT on O_DIRECT read/write 2016-10-03 20:38:55 -04:00
drop_caches.c
eventfd.c
eventpoll.c
exec.c
fcntl.c
fhandle.c
file_table.c
file.c fs/file: more unsigned file descriptors 2016-09-27 18:47:38 -04:00
filesystems.c
fs_pin.c
fs_struct.c
fs-writeback.c mm, writeback: flush plugged IO in wakeup_flusher_threads() 2016-08-09 19:58:06 -06:00
inode.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-10 20:16:43 -07:00
internal.h Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-10 13:04:49 -07:00
ioctl.c vfs: cap dedupe request structure size at PAGE_SIZE 2016-09-15 13:29:52 -07:00
iomap.c Merge branch 'iomap-4.9-dax' into for-next 2016-10-03 09:53:59 +11:00
Kconfig mm/hugetlb: introduce ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE 2016-10-07 18:46:29 -07:00
Kconfig.binfmt ARM: 8594/1: enable binfmt_flat on systems with an MMU 2016-08-12 16:47:05 +01:00
libfs.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-10 20:16:43 -07:00
locks.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-10 20:16:43 -07:00
Makefile
mbcache.c mbcache: fix to detect failure of register_shrinker 2016-08-31 11:44:36 -04:00
mount.h mnt: Add a per mount namespace limit on the number of mounts 2016-09-30 12:46:48 -05:00
mpage.c block/mm: make bdev_ops->rw_page() take a bool for read/write 2016-08-07 14:41:02 -06:00
namei.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-10 20:16:43 -07:00
namespace.c Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-10 13:04:49 -07:00
no-block.c
nsfs.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-10 20:16:43 -07:00
open.c block: implement (some of) fallocate for block devices 2016-10-11 15:06:30 -07:00
pipe.c pipe: cap initial pipe capacity according to pipe-max-size limit 2016-10-11 15:06:32 -07:00
pnode.c mnt: Add a per mount namespace limit on the number of mounts 2016-09-30 12:46:48 -05:00
pnode.h mnt: Add a per mount namespace limit on the number of mounts 2016-09-30 12:46:48 -05:00
posix_acl.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-10 20:16:43 -07:00
proc_namespace.c
read_write.c
readdir.c
select.c fs/select: add vmalloc fallback for select(2) 2016-10-11 15:06:30 -07:00
seq_file.c seq/proc: modify seq_put_decimal_[u]ll to take a const char *, not char 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
signalfd.c
splice.c fix ITER_PIPE interaction with direct_IO 2016-10-10 13:36:06 -04:00
stack.c
stat.c
statfs.c
super.c
sync.c
timerfd.c
userfaultfd.c
utimes.c Merge remote-tracking branch 'jk/vfs' into work.misc 2016-10-08 11:06:08 -04:00
xattr.c vfs: Remove {get,set,remove}xattr inode operations 2016-10-07 21:48:36 -04:00