[2.6.22.2 review 61/84] do not limit locked memory when RLIMIT_MEMLOCK is RLIM_INFINITY

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From: Greg KH
Date: Tuesday, August 7, 2007 - 1:48 pm

From: Herbert van den Bergh <Herbert.van.den.Bergh@oracle.com>

Fix a bug in mm/mlock.c on 32-bit architectures that prevents a user from
locking more than 4GB of shared memory, or allocating more than 4GB of
shared memory in hugepages, when rlim[RLIMIT_MEMLOCK] is set to
RLIM_INFINITY.

Signed-off-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
 mm/mlock.c |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/mlock.c
+++ b/mm/mlock.c
@@ -244,9 +244,12 @@ int user_shm_lock(size_t size, struct us
 
 	locked = (size + PAGE_SIZE - 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
 	lock_limit = current->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_MEMLOCK].rlim_cur;
+	if (lock_limit == RLIM_INFINITY)
+		allowed = 1;
 	lock_limit >>= PAGE_SHIFT;
 	spin_lock(&shmlock_user_lock);
-	if (locked + user->locked_shm > lock_limit && !capable(CAP_IPC_LOCK))
+	if (!allowed &&
+	    locked + user->locked_shm > lock_limit && !capable(CAP_IPC_LOCK))
 		goto out;
 	get_uid(user);
 	user->locked_shm += locked;

-- 
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