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authorEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>2010-10-28 17:21:57 -0400
committerEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>2010-10-28 17:22:14 -0400
commit5dd03f55fd2f21916ce248bb2e68bbfb39d94fe5 (patch)
tree3d4446ce07126b9983849a41670542c69bb400bd /fs/notify/fanotify
parent2529a0df0f64dab1f60ae08e038b89c53a6b4c02 (diff)
downloadlinux-5dd03f55fd2f21916ce248bb2e68bbfb39d94fe5.tar.bz2
fanotify: allow userspace to override max queue depth
fanotify has a defualt max queue depth. This patch allows processes which explicitly request it to have an 'unlimited' queue depth. These processes need to be very careful to make sure they cannot fall far enough behind that they OOM the box. Thus this flag is gated on CAP_SYS_ADMIN. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/notify/fanotify')
-rw-r--r--fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
index 04f2fe47b66a..43d66d9b2eff 100644
--- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
+++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
@@ -691,7 +691,14 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(fanotify_init, unsigned int, flags, unsigned int, event_f_flags)
goto out_put_group;
}
- group->max_events = FANOTIFY_DEFAULT_MAX_EVENTS;
+ if (flags & FAN_UNLIMITED_QUEUE) {
+ fd = -EPERM;
+ if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+ goto out_put_group;
+ group->max_events = UINT_MAX;
+ } else {
+ group->max_events = FANOTIFY_DEFAULT_MAX_EVENTS;
+ }
fd = anon_inode_getfd("[fanotify]", &fanotify_fops, group, f_flags);
if (fd < 0)