From: Kurt Garloff Subject: Increase default RLIMIT_MEMLOCK to 64k References: bnc#329675 Patch-Mainline: no (should be submitted) By default, non-privileged tasks can only mlock() a small amount of memory to avoid a DoS attack by ordinary users. The Linux kernel defaulted to 32k (on a 4k page size system) to accommodate the needs of gpg. However, newer gpg2 needs 64k in various circumstances and otherwise fails miserably, see bnc#329675. Change the default to 64k, and make it more agnostic to PAGE_SIZE. Signed-off-by: Kurt Garloff Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin --- Index: linux-2.6.27/include/linux/resource.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.27.orig/include/linux/resource.h +++ linux-2.6.27/include/linux/resource.h @@ -59,10 +59,10 @@ struct rlimit { #define _STK_LIM (8*1024*1024) /* - * GPG wants 32kB of mlocked memory, to make sure pass phrases + * GPG2 wants 64kB of mlocked memory, to make sure pass phrases * and other sensitive information are never written to disk. */ -#define MLOCK_LIMIT (8 * PAGE_SIZE) +#define MLOCK_LIMIT ((PAGE_SIZE > 64*1024) ? PAGE_SIZE : 64*1024) /* * Due to binary compatibility, the actual resource numbers