From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Waiman Long To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Kees Cook , Andrew Morton , Jonathan Corbet Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro , Matthew Wilcox , "Eric W. Biederman" , Waiman Long Subject: [PATCH v7 0/4] ipc: IPCMNI limit check for *mni & increase that limit Date: Mon, 7 May 2018 16:59:08 -0400 Message-Id: <1525726752-29281-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: v6->v7: - Drop the range clamping code and just return error instead for now until there is user request for clamping support. - Fix compilation error when CONFIG_SYSVIPC_SYSCTL isn't defined. v5->v6: - Consolidate the 3 ctl_table flags into 2. - Make similar changes to proc_doulongvec_minmax() and its associates to complete the clamping change. - Remove the sysctl registration failure test patch for now for later consideration. - Add extra braces to patch 1 to reduce code diff in a later patch. v4->v5: - Revert the flags back to 16-bit so that there will be no change to the size of ctl_table. - Enhance the sysctl_check_flags() as requested by Luis to perform more checks to spot incorrect ctl_table entries. - Change the sysctl selftest to use dummy sysctls instead of production ones & enhance it to do more checks. - Add one more sysctl selftest for registration failure. - Add 2 ipc patches to add an extended mode to increase IPCMNI from 32k to 2M. - Miscellaneous change to incorporate feedback comments from reviewers. v3->v4: - Remove v3 patches 1 & 2 as they have been merged into the mm tree. - Change flags from uint16_t to unsigned int. - Remove CTL_FLAGS_OOR_WARNED and use pr_warn_ratelimited() instead. - Simplify the warning message code. - Add a new patch to fail the ctl_table registration with invalid flag. - Add a test case for range clamping in sysctl selftest. v2->v3: - Fix kdoc comment errors. - Incorporate comments and suggestions from Luis R. Rodriguez. - Add a patch to fix a typo error in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c. v1->v2: - Add kdoc comments to the do_proc_do{u}intvec_minmax_conv_param structures. - Add a new flags field to the ctl_table structure for specifying whether range clamping should be activated instead of adding new sysctl parameter handlers. - Clamp the semmni value embedded in the multi-values sem parameter. v4 patch: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/12/867 v5 patch: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/16/1106 v6 patch: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/4/27/1094 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 2M if the users really want the extended value. Waiman Long (4): ipc: IPCMNI limit check for msgmni and shmmni ipc: IPCMNI limit check for semmni ipc: Allow boot time extension of IPCMNI from 32k to 2M ipc: Conserve sequence numbers in extended IPCMNI mode Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 3 ++ include/linux/ipc_namespace.h | 1 + ipc/ipc_sysctl.c | 42 +++++++++++++++++++-- ipc/util.c | 41 ++++++++++++++------- ipc/util.h | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++---- 5 files changed, 112 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) -- 1.8.3.1