linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] tmpfs: support user quotas

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Date:	Sun, 6 Nov 2011 23:10:38 +0100
From:	Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@...inter.de>
To:	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@....org>
Cc:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] tmpfs: support user quotas

On Sun, 06.11.11 18:15, Davidlohr Bueso (dave@....org) wrote:

> From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@....org>
> 
> This patch adds a new RLIMIT_TMPFSQUOTA resource limit to restrict an individual user's quota across all mounted tmpfs filesystems.
> It's well known that a user can easily fill up commonly used directories (like /tmp, /dev/shm) causing programs to break through DoS.

Thanks a lot for this work! One comment without looking at the patch in detail:

> +	if (atomic_long_read(&user->shmem_bytes) + len > 
> +	    rlimit(RLIMIT_TMPFSQUOTA))
> +		return -ENOSPC;

This should be EDQUOT "Disk quota exceeded", not ENOSPC "No space left
on device".

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.
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