From: Kurt Garloff Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:00:48 +0000 (-0700) Subject: mm: increase the default mlock limit from 32k to 64k X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0833422274ff00729a603b020fac297e69a03e40;p=GitHub%2FLineageOS%2FG12%2Fandroid_kernel_amlogic_linux-4.9.git mm: increase the default mlock limit from 32k to 64k 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 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/include/linux/resource.h b/include/linux/resource.h index aaa423a6f3d9..40fc7e626082 100644 --- a/include/linux/resource.h +++ b/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