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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2010-10-26 14:22:44 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-10-26 16:52:15 -0700
commit518de9b39e854542de59bfb8b9f61c8f7ecf808b (patch)
tree06cd1dd303a1526501783589ec61696570c0ffa8 /include
parent571428be550fbe37160596995e96ad398873fcbd (diff)
downloadlinux-518de9b39e854542de59bfb8b9f61c8f7ecf808b.tar.bz2
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 # cat /proc/sys/fs/file-nr 704 0 2147483648 Reported-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Reviewed-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Tested-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/fs.h8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 4f34ff6e5558..b2cdb6bc8287 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 {
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ 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;