Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 11:18:04 -0700
From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: mlock as non-root: use rlimits
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* Arjan van de Ven (arjanv@redhat.com) wrote:
> non-root" issue, which recently cropped up again in relation to hugetlbfs
> and Oracle. The proposed solution comes down to using the MEMLOCK rlimit,
> which previously was used to restrict how much memory *root* processes can
> mlock as limit for non-root processes, and let root (well CAP_IPC_LOCK
> processes) mlock to infinity (which was the rlimit default anyway).
> The default behavior of the kernel doesn't change with this patch, but with
> this patch the sysadmin can use the standard rlimit mechanism (eg via PAM
> usually) to allow specific users to mlock memory, for example the oracle
> database user account.
>                                                                               
> Comments?

Hi Arjan, how is this different from the last time this patch was posted?

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108087017610947&w=2

The hugetlbfs and SHM_LOCK bits don't work well with rlimits.  For
example, it's trivial to corrupt the locked_vm count with a SHM_LOCK
segment.  I like this, but I think it only works with mlock().  Did I
miss something?

thanks,
-chris
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