linux-kernel - Re: [Patch 5/8] mqueue: revert bump up DFLT

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Date:	Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:37:30 -0400
From:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com>
To:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>
CC:	Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, kosaki.motohiro@...il.com,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Amerigo Wang <amwang@...hat.com>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [Patch 5/8] mqueue: revert bump up DFLT_*MAX

(4/17/12 11:22 PM), Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting Doug Ledford (dledford@...hat.com):
>> From: KOSAKI Motohiro<kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
>>
>> Mqueue limitation is slightly naieve parameter likes other ipcs
>> because unprivileged user can consume kernel memory by using ipcs.
>>
>> Thus, too aggressive raise bring us security issue. Example,
>> current setting allow evil unprivileged user use 256GB (= 256
>> * 1024 * 1024*1024) and it's enough large to system will belome
>> unresponsive. Don't do that.
>>
>> Instead, every admin should adjust the knobs for their own systems.
>
> Would you be terribly averse to having a higher limit in init_ipc_ns,
> and the lower values by default in all child namespaces?

No, I just focused to don't create any regressions. i.e. I mainly focused
no namespace use case. And, I'm sorry, I don't think I clearly understand
recent namespace update. I'm not against any namespace enhancement. Please
only think just I don't understand neither a ipc namespace requirement nor
the code.



> Sorry it sounds from the intro like you've already had quite a bit of
> discussion on this...
>
> Of course I realize the values can just be raised by distro boot
> scripts...
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