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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3] ipc,shm: disable shmmax and shmall by default
Hi Davidlohr,

On 04/18/2014 03:25 AM, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> So a value of 0 bytes or pages, for shmmax and shmall, respectively,
> implies unlimited memory, as opposed to disabling sysv shared memory.
That might be a second risk:
Right now, a sysadmin can prevent sysv memory allocations with

# sysctl kernel.shmall=0

After your patch is applied, this line allows unlimited allocations.

Obviously my patch has the opposite problem: 64-bit wrap-arounds.

> --- a/include/uapi/linux/shm.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/shm.h
> @@ -9,14 +9,14 @@
>
> /*
> * SHMMAX, SHMMNI and SHMALL are upper limits are defaults which can
> - * be increased by sysctl
> + * be modified by sysctl. By default, disable SHMMAX and SHMALL with
> + * 0 bytes, thus allowing processes to have unlimited shared memory.
> */
> -
> -#define SHMMAX 0x2000000 /* max shared seg size (bytes) */
> +#define SHMMAX 0 /* max shared seg size (bytes) */
> #define SHMMIN 1 /* min shared seg size (bytes) */
> #define SHMMNI 4096 /* max num of segs system wide */
> #ifndef __KERNEL__
> -#define SHMALL (SHMMAX/getpagesize()*(SHMMNI/16))
> +#define SHMALL 0
> #endif
> #define SHMSEG SHMMNI /* max shared segs per process */
>
The "#ifndef __KERNEL__" is not required:
As there is no reference to PAGE_SIZE anymore, one definition for SHMALL
is sufficient.


--
Manfred


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