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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-01-22 10:24:03 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-01-22 10:24:03 -0800
commiteadee0ce6fd33defe449c97e671bf83fa230b5de (patch)
treec159a1cb09accfac1f351ce4fca24ccef9777245 /Documentation
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parent117aa41e8020fe493bbb677ebe828c3a4b380185 (diff)
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Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro: "Embarrassing braino fix + pipe page accounting + fixing an eyesore in find_filesystem() (checking that s1 is equal to prefix of s2 of given length can be done in many ways, but "compare strlen(s1) with length and then do strncmp()" is not a good one...)" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: [regression] fix braino in fs/dlm/user.c pipe: limit the per-user amount of pages allocated in pipes find_filesystem(): simplify comparison
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diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt
index 88152f214f48..302b5ed616a6 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/fs:
- nr_open
- overflowuid
- overflowgid
+- pipe-user-pages-hard
+- pipe-user-pages-soft
- protected_hardlinks
- protected_symlinks
- suid_dumpable
@@ -159,6 +161,27 @@ The default is 65534.
==============================================================
+pipe-user-pages-hard:
+
+Maximum total number of pages a non-privileged user may allocate for pipes.
+Once this limit is reached, no new pipes may be allocated until usage goes
+below the limit again. When set to 0, no limit is applied, which is the default
+setting.
+
+==============================================================
+
+pipe-user-pages-soft:
+
+Maximum total number of pages a non-privileged user may allocate for pipes
+before the pipe size gets limited to a single page. Once this limit is reached,
+new pipes will be limited to a single page in size for this user in order to
+limit total memory usage, and trying to increase them using fcntl() will be
+denied until usage goes below the limit again. The default value allows to
+allocate up to 1024 pipes at their default size. When set to 0, no limit is
+applied.
+
+==============================================================
+
protected_hardlinks:
A long-standing class of security issues is the hardlink-based