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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ben Woodard <woodard@redhat.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] exec: increase BINPRM_BUF_SIZE to 256
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 11:29:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181113102929.GO15120@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181112160956.GA28472@redhat.com>

On Mon 12-11-18 17:09:56, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> Large enterprise clients often times run applications out of networked
> file systems where the IT mandated layout of project volumes can end up
> leading to paths that are longer than 128 characters. Bumping this up to
> the next order of two solves this problem in all but the most egregious
> case while still fitting into a 512b slab.
> 
> Reported-by: Ben Woodard <woodard@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>

Increasing it to a larger value wouldn't hurt but I wouldn't bind it to
the page size because the layout might change and result in higher order
request.

> ---
>  include/uapi/linux/binfmts.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/binfmts.h b/include/uapi/linux/binfmts.h
> index 4abad03..689025d 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/binfmts.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/binfmts.h
> @@ -16,6 +16,6 @@ struct pt_regs;
>  #define MAX_ARG_STRINGS 0x7FFFFFFF
>  
>  /* sizeof(linux_binprm->buf) */
> -#define BINPRM_BUF_SIZE 128
> +#define BINPRM_BUF_SIZE 256
>  
>  #endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_BINFMTS_H */
> -- 
> 2.5.0
> 
> 

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-11-13 10:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-12 16:09 [PATCH 1/2] exec: load_script: don't blindly truncate shebang string Oleg Nesterov
2018-11-12 16:09 ` [PATCH 2/2] exec: increase BINPRM_BUF_SIZE to 256 Oleg Nesterov
2018-11-12 23:52   ` Andrew Morton
2018-11-13  5:03     ` Kees Cook
2018-11-13 16:55     ` Oleg Nesterov
2018-11-13 20:43       ` Andrew Morton
2018-11-14 15:54         ` Oleg Nesterov
2018-11-14 16:01           ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-13 10:29   ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2018-11-16 17:49   ` Alan Cox
2018-11-22 12:15     ` Oleg Nesterov
     [not found]     ` <20181121160753.GA32685@asgard.redhat.com>
     [not found]       ` <CAKgNAkhFikJXeOx3W3yL3EUKa9ruXtAw93m4M=N+3Kg-bXbPDQ@mail.gmail.com>
2018-11-22 17:32         ` [PATCH] execve.2: document an effect of BINPRM_BUF_SIZE increase " Eugene Syromiatnikov
2019-02-18 19:37   ` [PATCH 2/2] exec: increase BINPRM_BUF_SIZE " Guenter Roeck
2019-02-19 12:37     ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-02-19 16:26       ` Guenter Roeck
2019-02-19 17:36         ` Oleg Nesterov
2018-11-13 10:27 ` [PATCH 1/2] exec: load_script: don't blindly truncate shebang string Michal Hocko
2018-11-13 16:41   ` Oleg Nesterov
2018-11-13 20:16 ` Kees Cook

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