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authorRavikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>2009-03-31 15:19:40 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-04-01 08:59:12 -0700
commit8a0bdec194c21c8fdef840989d0d7b742bb5d4bc (patch)
tree0185e4cfa29f18a2f7b9d297e049a1de5314d0ec /fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
parente3a7cca1ef4c1af9b0acef9bd66eff6582a737b5 (diff)
downloadlinux-8a0bdec194c21c8fdef840989d0d7b742bb5d4bc.tar.gz
mm: fix SHM_HUGETLB to work with users in hugetlb_shm_group
Fix hugetlb subsystem so that non root users belonging to
hugetlb_shm_group can actually allocate hugetlb backed shm.

Currently non root users cannot even map one large page using SHM_HUGETLB
when they belong to the gid in /proc/sys/vm/hugetlb_shm_group.  This is
because allocation size is verified against RLIMIT_MEMLOCK resource limit
even if the user belongs to hugetlb_shm_group.

This patch
1. Fixes hugetlb subsystem so that users with CAP_IPC_LOCK and users
   belonging to hugetlb_shm_group don't need to be restricted with
   RLIMIT_MEMLOCK resource limits
2. This patch also disables mlock based rlimit checking (which will
   be reinstated and marked deprecated in a subsequent patch).

Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Reviewed-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c8
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
index 9b800d97a687..bc56df8ce001 100644
--- a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
@@ -943,9 +943,7 @@ static struct vfsmount *hugetlbfs_vfsmount;
 
 static int can_do_hugetlb_shm(void)
 {
-	return likely(capable(CAP_IPC_LOCK) ||
-			in_group_p(sysctl_hugetlb_shm_group) ||
-			can_do_mlock());
+	return capable(CAP_IPC_LOCK) || in_group_p(sysctl_hugetlb_shm_group);
 }
 
 struct file *hugetlb_file_setup(const char *name, size_t size, int acctflag)
@@ -963,9 +961,6 @@ struct file *hugetlb_file_setup(const char *name, size_t size, int acctflag)
 	if (!can_do_hugetlb_shm())
 		return ERR_PTR(-EPERM);
 
-	if (!user_shm_lock(size, user))
-		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
-
 	root = hugetlbfs_vfsmount->mnt_root;
 	quick_string.name = name;
 	quick_string.len = strlen(quick_string.name);
@@ -1004,7 +999,6 @@ out_inode:
 out_dentry:
 	dput(dentry);
 out_shm_unlock:
-	user_shm_unlock(size, user);
 	return ERR_PTR(error);
 }