From 5dd03f55fd2f21916ce248bb2e68bbfb39d94fe5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Paris Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:21:57 -0400 Subject: fanotify: allow userspace to override max queue depth fanotify has a defualt max queue depth. This patch allows processes which explicitly request it to have an 'unlimited' queue depth. These processes need to be very careful to make sure they cannot fall far enough behind that they OOM the box. Thus this flag is gated on CAP_SYS_ADMIN. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris --- fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/notify/fanotify') diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c index 04f2fe47b66a..43d66d9b2eff 100644 --- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c +++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c @@ -691,7 +691,14 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(fanotify_init, unsigned int, flags, unsigned int, event_f_flags) goto out_put_group; } - group->max_events = FANOTIFY_DEFAULT_MAX_EVENTS; + if (flags & FAN_UNLIMITED_QUEUE) { + fd = -EPERM; + if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + goto out_put_group; + group->max_events = UINT_MAX; + } else { + group->max_events = FANOTIFY_DEFAULT_MAX_EVENTS; + } fd = anon_inode_getfd("[fanotify]", &fanotify_fops, group, f_flags); if (fd < 0) -- cgit v1.2.2