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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/8] pipe: move limit checking logic into
 pipe_set_size()
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 07:52:22 -0700
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On Thu, 2016-09-29 at 13:26 +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> On 08/29/2016 02:21 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> > This is a preparatory patch for following work. Move the F_SETPIPE_SZ
> > limit-checking logic from pipe_fcntl() into pipe_set_size().  This
> > simplifies the code a little, and allows for reworking required in
> > a later patch that fixes the limit checking in pipe_set_size()
> 
> > +	if ((too_many_pipe_buffers_hard(pipe->user) ||
> > +			too_many_pipe_buffers_soft(pipe->user)) &&
> > +			capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE) && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
> > +		return -EPERM;
> Some might say the indentation is off here. Not sure why checkpatch
> didn't care.

Parenthesis alignment is a CHECK not a WARNING.

It's only reported with --strict or if the code is
in drivers/staging, net/, or drivers/net/