ipc: introduce shm_rmid_forced sysctl

Add support for the shm_rmid_forced sysctl.  If set to 1, all shared
memory objects in current ipc namespace will be automatically forced to
use IPC_RMID.

The POSIX way of handling shmem allows one to create shm objects and
call shmdt(), leaving shm object associated with no process, thus
consuming memory not counted via rlimits.

With shm_rmid_forced=1 the shared memory object is counted at least for
one process, so OOM killer may effectively kill the fat process holding
the shared memory.

It obviously breaks POSIX - some programs relying on the feature would
stop working.  So set shm_rmid_forced=1 only if you're sure nobody uses
"orphaned" memory.  Use shm_rmid_forced=0 by default for compatability
reasons.

The feature was previously impemented in -ow as a configure option.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix documentation, per Randy]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: readability/conventionality tweaks]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix shm_rmid_forced/shm_forced_rmid confusion, use standard comment layout]
Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/shm.h b/include/linux/shm.h
index eca6235a46c0..7d27ffde0190 100644
--- a/include/linux/shm.h
+++ b/include/linux/shm.h
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ struct shmid_kernel /* private to the kernel */
 #ifdef CONFIG_SYSVIPC
 long do_shmat(int shmid, char __user *shmaddr, int shmflg, unsigned long *addr);
 extern int is_file_shm_hugepages(struct file *file);
+extern void exit_shm(struct task_struct *task);
 #else
 static inline long do_shmat(int shmid, char __user *shmaddr,
                                 int shmflg, unsigned long *addr)
@@ -116,6 +117,9 @@ static inline int is_file_shm_hugepages(struct file *file)
 {
         return 0;
 }
+static inline void exit_shm(struct task_struct *task)
+{
+}
 #endif
 
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */