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    ipc/mqueue: switch back to using non-max values on create · 858ee378
    Doug Ledford authored
    Commit b231cca4
    
     ("message queues: increase range limits") changed
    how we create a queue that does not include an attr struct passed to
    open so that it creates the queue with whatever the maximum values are.
    However, if the admin has set the maximums to allow flexibility in
    creating a queue (aka, both a large size and large queue are allowed,
    but combined they create a queue too large for the RLIMIT_MSGQUEUE of
    the user), then attempts to create a queue without an attr struct will
    fail.  Switch back to using acceptable defaults regardless of what the
    maximums are.
    
    Note: so far, we only know of a few applications that rely on this
    behavior (specifically, set the maximums in /proc, then run the
    application which calls mq_open() without passing in an attr struct, and
    the application expects the newly created message queue to have the
    maximum sizes that were set in /proc used on the mq_open() call, and all
    of those applications that we know of are actually part of regression
    test suites that were coded to do something like this:
    
    for size in 4096 65536 $((1024 * 1024)) $((16 * 1024 * 1024)); do
    	echo $size > /proc/sys/fs/mqueue/msgsize_max
    	mq_open || echo "Error opening mq with size $size"
    done
    
    These test suites that depend on any behavior like this are broken.  The
    concept that programs should rely upon the system wide maximum in order
    to get their desired results instead of simply using a attr struct to
    specify what they want is fundamentally unfriendly programming practice
    for any multi-tasking OS.
    
    Fixing this will break those few apps that we know of (and those app
    authors recognize the brokenness of their code and the need to fix it).
    However, the following patch "mqueue: separate mqueue default value"
    allows a workaround in the form of new knobs for the default msg queue
    creation parameters for any software out there that we don't already
    know about that might rely on this behavior at the moment.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDoug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
    Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
    Cc: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
    Cc: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>
    Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
    Acked-by: default avatarKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
    Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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