[PATCH V3] fs: allow for more than 2^31 files

Eric Dumazet
2010-09-28T03:47:01Z

Le lundi 27 septembre 2010 à 15:36 -0700, David Miller a écrit :

> Is someone following up on integrating this upstream so this thing
> gets fixed?
>

Thanks for the heads-up.

I am not sure V2 of my patch was reviewed, maybe it did not reach the
list.

Here is V3 of it. I removed the ATOMIC_INIT(0) I left in V2.
It should be an ATOMIC_LONG_INIT(0), but then, it can be avoided.

CC netdev

Thanks

[PATCH V3] fs: allow for more than 2^31 files

Robin Holt tried to boot a 16TB system and found af_unix was overflowing
a 32bit value :

<quote>

We were seeing a failure which prevented boot. The kernel was incapable
of creating either a named pipe or unix domain socket. This comes down
to a common kernel function called unix_create1() which does:

atomic_inc(&unix_nr_socks);
if (atomic_read(&unix_nr_socks) > 2 * get_max_files())
goto out;

The function get_max_files() is a simple return of files_stat.max_files.
files_stat.max_files is a signed integer and is computed in
fs/file_table.c's files_init().

n = (mempages * (PAGE_SIZE / 1024)) / 10;
files_stat.max_files = n;

In our case, mempages (total_ram_pages) is approx 3,758,096,384
(0xe0000000). That leaves max_files at approximately 1,503,238,553.
This causes 2 * get_max_files() to integer overflow.

</quote>

Fix is to let /proc/sys/fs/file-nr & /proc/sys/fs/file-max use long
integers, and change af_unix to use an atomic_long_t instead of
atomic_t.

get_max_files() is changed to return an unsigned long.
get_nr_files() is changed to return a long.

unix_nr_socks is changed from atomic_t to atomic_long_t, while not
strictly needed to address Robin problem.

Before patch (on a 64bit kernel) :
# echo 2147483648 >/proc/sys/fs/file-max
# cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max
-18446744071562067968

After patch:
# echo 2147483648 >/proc/sys/fs/file-max
# cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max
2147483648

Reported-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
---
fs/file_table.c | 15 ++++++---------
include/linux/fs.h | 8 ++++----
kernel/sysctl.c | 8 ++++----
net/unix/af_unix.c | 14 +++++++-------
4 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/file_table.c b/fs/file_table.c
index a04bdd8..46457ba 100644
--- a/fs/file_table.c
+++ b/fs/file_table.c
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ static inline void file_free(struct file *f)
/*
* Return the total number of open files in the system
*/
-static int get_nr_files(void)
+static long get_nr_files(void)
{
return percpu_counter_read_positive(&nr_files);
}
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ static int get_nr_files(void)
/*
* Return the maximum number of open files in the system
*/
-int get_max_files(void)
+unsigned long get_max_files(void)
{
return files_stat.max_files;
}
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ int proc_nr_files(ctl_table *table, int write,
struct file *get_empty_filp(void)
{
const struct cred *cred = current_cred();
- static int old_max;
+ static long old_max;
struct file * f;

/*
@@ -140,8 +140,7 @@ struct file *get_empty_filp(void)
over:
/* Ran out of filps - report that */
if (get_nr_files() > old_max) {
- printk(KERN_INFO "VFS: file-max limit %d reached\n",
- get_max_files());
+ pr_info("VFS: file-max limit %lu reached\n", get_max_files());
old_max = get_nr_files();
}
goto fail;
@@ -487,7 +486,7 @@ retry:

void __init files_init(unsigned long mempages)
{
- int n;
+ unsigned long n;

filp_cachep = kmem_cache_create("filp", sizeof(struct file), 0,
SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN | SLAB_PANIC, NULL);
@@ -498,9 +497,7 @@ void __init files_init(unsigned long mempages)
*/

n = (mempages * (PAGE_SIZE / 1024)) / 10;
- files_stat.max_files = n;
- if (files_stat.max_files < NR_FILE)
- files_stat.max_files = NR_FILE;
+ files_stat.max_files = max_t(unsigned long, n, NR_FILE);
files_defer_init();
lg_lock_init(files_lglock);
percpu_counter_init(&nr_files, 0);
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 63d069b..8c06590 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -34,9 +34,9 @@

/* And dynamically-tunable limits and defaults: */
struct files_stat_struct {
- int nr_files; /* read only */
- int nr_free_files; /* read only */
- int max_files; /* tunable */
+ unsigned long nr_files; /* read only */
+ unsigned long nr_free_files; /* read only */
+ unsigned long max_files; /* tunable */
};

struct inodes_stat_t {
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ extern void __init inode_init_early(void);
extern void __init files_init(unsigned long);

extern struct files_stat_struct files_stat;
-extern int get_max_files(void);
+extern unsigned long get_max_files(void);
extern int sysctl_nr_open;
extern struct inodes_stat_t inodes_stat;
extern int leases_enable, lease_break_time;
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index f88552c..fc667bf 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -1352,16 +1352,16 @@ static struct ctl_table fs_table[] = {
{
.procname = "file-nr",
.data = &files_stat,
- .maxlen = 3*sizeof(int),
+ .maxlen = sizeof(files_stat),
.mode = 0444,
- .proc_handler = proc_nr_files,
+ .proc_handler = proc_doulongvec_minmax,
},
{
.procname = "file-max",
.data = &files_stat.max_files,
- .maxlen = sizeof(int),
+ .maxlen = sizeof(files_stat.max_files),
.mode = 0644,
- .proc_handler = proc_dointvec,
+ .proc_handler = proc_doulongvec_minmax,
},
{
.procname = "nr_open",
diff --git a/net/unix/af_unix.c b/net/unix/af_unix.c
index 0b39b24..3e1d7d1 100644
--- a/net/unix/af_unix.c
+++ b/net/unix/af_unix.c
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@

static struct hlist_head unix_socket_table[UNIX_HASH_SIZE + 1];
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(unix_table_lock);
-static atomic_t unix_nr_socks = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
+static atomic_long_t unix_nr_socks;

#define unix_sockets_unbound (&unix_socket_table[UNIX_HASH_SIZE])

@@ -360,13 +360,13 @@ static void unix_sock_destructor(struct sock *sk)
if (u->addr)
unix_release_addr(u->addr);

- atomic_dec(&unix_nr_socks);
+ atomic_long_dec(&unix_nr_socks);
local_bh_disable();
sock_prot_inuse_add(sock_net(sk), sk->sk_prot, -1);
local_bh_enable();
#ifdef UNIX_REFCNT_DEBUG
- printk(KERN_DEBUG "UNIX %p is destroyed, %d are still alive.\n", sk,
- atomic_read(&unix_nr_socks));
+ printk(KERN_DEBUG "UNIX %p is destroyed, %ld are still alive.\n", sk,
+ atomic_long_read(&unix_nr_socks));
#endif
}

@@ -606,8 +606,8 @@ static struct sock *unix_create1(struct net *net, struct socket *sock)
struct sock *sk = NULL;
struct unix_sock *u;

- atomic_inc(&unix_nr_socks);
- if (atomic_read(&unix_nr_socks) > 2 * get_max_files())
+ atomic_long_inc(&unix_nr_socks);
+ if (atomic_long_read(&unix_nr_socks) > 2 * get_max_files())
goto out;

sk = sk_alloc(net, PF_UNIX, GFP_KERNEL, &unix_proto);
@@ -632,7 +632,7 @@ static struct sock *unix_create1(struct net *net, struct socket *sock)
unix_insert_socket(unix_sockets_unbound, sk);
out:
if (sk == NULL)
- atomic_dec(&unix_nr_socks);
+ atomic_long_dec(&unix_nr_socks);
else {
local_bh_disable();
sock_prot_inuse_add(sock_net(sk), sk->sk_prot, 1);