mm: fix SHM_HUGETLB to work with users in hugetlb_shm_group
authorRavikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:19:40 +0000 (15:19 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 1 Apr 2009 15:59:12 +0000 (08:59 -0700)
Fix hugetlb subsystem so that non root users belonging to
hugetlb_shm_group can actually allocate hugetlb backed shm.

Currently non root users cannot even map one large page using SHM_HUGETLB
when they belong to the gid in /proc/sys/vm/hugetlb_shm_group.  This is
because allocation size is verified against RLIMIT_MEMLOCK resource limit
even if the user belongs to hugetlb_shm_group.

This patch
1. Fixes hugetlb subsystem so that users with CAP_IPC_LOCK and users
   belonging to hugetlb_shm_group don't need to be restricted with
   RLIMIT_MEMLOCK resource limits
2. This patch also disables mlock based rlimit checking (which will
   be reinstated and marked deprecated in a subsequent patch).

Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Reviewed-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c

index 9b800d97a68771b2299e978ebfdb003476e1c075..bc56df8ce0010e9c0082203ef42e95f1b12308d6 100644 (file)
@@ -943,9 +943,7 @@ static struct vfsmount *hugetlbfs_vfsmount;
 
 static int can_do_hugetlb_shm(void)
 {
-       return likely(capable(CAP_IPC_LOCK) ||
-                       in_group_p(sysctl_hugetlb_shm_group) ||
-                       can_do_mlock());
+       return capable(CAP_IPC_LOCK) || in_group_p(sysctl_hugetlb_shm_group);
 }
 
 struct file *hugetlb_file_setup(const char *name, size_t size, int acctflag)
@@ -963,9 +961,6 @@ struct file *hugetlb_file_setup(const char *name, size_t size, int acctflag)
        if (!can_do_hugetlb_shm())
                return ERR_PTR(-EPERM);
 
-       if (!user_shm_lock(size, user))
-               return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
-
        root = hugetlbfs_vfsmount->mnt_root;
        quick_string.name = name;
        quick_string.len = strlen(quick_string.name);
@@ -1004,7 +999,6 @@ out_inode:
 out_dentry:
        dput(dentry);
 out_shm_unlock:
-       user_shm_unlock(size, user);
        return ERR_PTR(error);
 }