Re: [PATCH] ipc/shm: Increase the defaults for SHMALL, SHMMAX to infinity

[Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>]

On 04/19/2014 08:55 AM, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-04-18 at 11:18 +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote:
>> - ULONG_MAX is not really infinity, but 18 Exabyte segment size and
>>    75 Zettabyte total size. This should be enough for the next few weeks.
>>    (assuming a 64-bit system with 4k pages)
Note: I found three integer overflows, none of them critical.
I will send patches, I just must get a 32-bit test setup first.
>> Risks:
>> - The patch breaks installations that use "take current value and increase
>>    it a bit". [seems to exist, http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=139638334330127]
> This really scares me. The probability of occurrence is now much higher,
> and not just theoretical. It would legitimately break userspace.
That's why I mentioned it.
For shmmax, there is a simple answer: Use TASK_SIZE instead of ULONG_MAX.
- sufficiently far away from overflow.
- values beyond TASK_SIZE are useless anyway, you can't map such segments.

I don't have a good answer for shmall. 1L<<(BITS_PER_LONG-1) is too ugly.
Any proposals?

--
     Manfred

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