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<title>ipc/sem.c: update/correct memory barriers</title>
<updated>2015-09-13T16:10:48Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Manfred Spraul</name>
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<published>2015-08-14T22:35:10Z</published>
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commit 3ed1f8a99d70ea1cd1508910eb107d0edcae5009 upstream.

sem_lock() did not properly pair memory barriers:

!spin_is_locked() and spin_unlock_wait() are both only control barriers.
The code needs an acquire barrier, otherwise the cpu might perform read
operations before the lock test.

As no primitive exists inside &lt;include/spinlock.h&gt; and since it seems
noone wants another primitive, the code creates a local primitive within
ipc/sem.c.

With regards to -stable:

The change of sem_wait_array() is a bugfix, the change to sem_lock() is a
nop (just a preprocessor redefinition to improve the readability).  The
bugfix is necessary for all kernels that use sem_wait_array() (i.e.:
starting from 3.10).

Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul &lt;manfred@colorfullife.com&gt;
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill Tkhai &lt;ktkhai@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>ipc,sem: fix use after free on IPC_RMID after a task using same semaphore set exits</title>
<updated>2015-09-13T16:10:48Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Herton R. Krzesinski</name>
<email>herton@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-14T22:35:02Z</published>
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commit 602b8593d2b4138c10e922eeaafe306f6b51817b upstream.

The current semaphore code allows a potential use after free: in
exit_sem we may free the task's sem_undo_list while there is still
another task looping through the same semaphore set and cleaning the
sem_undo list at freeary function (the task called IPC_RMID for the same
semaphore set).

For example, with a test program [1] running which keeps forking a lot
of processes (which then do a semop call with SEM_UNDO flag), and with
the parent right after removing the semaphore set with IPC_RMID, and a
kernel built with CONFIG_SLAB, CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG and
CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK, you can easily see something like the following
in the kernel log:

   Slab corruption (Not tainted): kmalloc-64 start=ffff88003b45c1c0, len=64
   000: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 00 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b  kkkkkkkk.kkkkkkk
   010: ff ff ff ff 6b 6b 6b 6b ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  ....kkkk........
   Prev obj: start=ffff88003b45c180, len=64
   000: 00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff 5a 5a 5a 5a  .....N......ZZZZ
   010: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff c0 fb 01 37 00 88 ff ff  ...........7....
   Next obj: start=ffff88003b45c200, len=64
   000: 00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff 5a 5a 5a 5a  .....N......ZZZZ
   010: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 68 29 a7 3c 00 88 ff ff  ........h).&lt;....
   BUG: spinlock wrong CPU on CPU#2, test/18028
   general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP
   Modules linked in: 8021q mrp garp stp llc nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 ip6t_REJECT nf_reject_ipv6 nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 xt_state nf_conntrack ip6table_filter ip6_tables binfmt_misc ppdev input_leds joydev parport_pc parport floppy serio_raw virtio_balloon virtio_rng virtio_console virtio_net iosf_mbi crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul ghash_clmulni_intel pcspkr qxl ttm drm_kms_helper drm snd_hda_codec_generic i2c_piix4 snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hda_core snd_hwdep snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore crc32c_intel virtio_pci virtio_ring virtio pata_acpi ata_generic [last unloaded: speedstep_lib]
   CPU: 2 PID: 18028 Comm: test Not tainted 4.2.0-rc5+ #1
   Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.8.1-20150318_183358- 04/01/2014
   RIP: spin_dump+0x53/0xc0
   Call Trace:
     spin_bug+0x30/0x40
     do_raw_spin_unlock+0x71/0xa0
     _raw_spin_unlock+0xe/0x10
     freeary+0x82/0x2a0
     ? _raw_spin_lock+0xe/0x10
     semctl_down.clone.0+0xce/0x160
     ? __do_page_fault+0x19a/0x430
     ? __audit_syscall_entry+0xa8/0x100
     SyS_semctl+0x236/0x2c0
     ? syscall_trace_leave+0xde/0x130
     entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x71
   Code: 8b 80 88 03 00 00 48 8d 88 60 05 00 00 48 c7 c7 a0 2c a4 81 31 c0 65 8b 15 eb 40 f3 7e e8 08 31 68 00 4d 85 e4 44 8b 4b 08 74 5e &lt;45&gt; 8b 84 24 88 03 00 00 49 8d 8c 24 60 05 00 00 8b 53 04 48 89
   RIP  [&lt;ffffffff810d6053&gt;] spin_dump+0x53/0xc0
    RSP &lt;ffff88003750fd68&gt;
   ---[ end trace 783ebb76612867a0 ]---
   NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 22s! [test:18053]
   Modules linked in: 8021q mrp garp stp llc nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 ip6t_REJECT nf_reject_ipv6 nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 xt_state nf_conntrack ip6table_filter ip6_tables binfmt_misc ppdev input_leds joydev parport_pc parport floppy serio_raw virtio_balloon virtio_rng virtio_console virtio_net iosf_mbi crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul ghash_clmulni_intel pcspkr qxl ttm drm_kms_helper drm snd_hda_codec_generic i2c_piix4 snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hda_core snd_hwdep snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore crc32c_intel virtio_pci virtio_ring virtio pata_acpi ata_generic [last unloaded: speedstep_lib]
   CPU: 3 PID: 18053 Comm: test Tainted: G      D         4.2.0-rc5+ #1
   Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.8.1-20150318_183358- 04/01/2014
   RIP: native_read_tsc+0x0/0x20
   Call Trace:
     ? delay_tsc+0x40/0x70
     __delay+0xf/0x20
     do_raw_spin_lock+0x96/0x140
     _raw_spin_lock+0xe/0x10
     sem_lock_and_putref+0x11/0x70
     SYSC_semtimedop+0x7bf/0x960
     ? handle_mm_fault+0xbf6/0x1880
     ? dequeue_task_fair+0x79/0x4a0
     ? __do_page_fault+0x19a/0x430
     ? kfree_debugcheck+0x16/0x40
     ? __do_page_fault+0x19a/0x430
     ? __audit_syscall_entry+0xa8/0x100
     ? do_audit_syscall_entry+0x66/0x70
     ? syscall_trace_enter_phase1+0x139/0x160
     SyS_semtimedop+0xe/0x10
     SyS_semop+0x10/0x20
     entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x71
   Code: 47 10 83 e8 01 85 c0 89 47 10 75 08 65 48 89 3d 1f 74 ff 7e c9 c3 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 89 e5 e8 87 17 04 00 66 90 c9 c3 0f 1f 00 &lt;55&gt; 48 89 e5 0f 31 89 c1 48 89 d0 48 c1 e0 20 89 c9 48 09 c8 c9
   Kernel panic - not syncing: softlockup: hung tasks

I wasn't able to trigger any badness on a recent kernel without the
proper config debugs enabled, however I have softlockup reports on some
kernel versions, in the semaphore code, which are similar as above (the
scenario is seen on some servers running IBM DB2 which uses semaphore
syscalls).

The patch here fixes the race against freeary, by acquiring or waiting
on the sem_undo_list lock as necessary (exit_sem can race with freeary,
while freeary sets un-&gt;semid to -1 and removes the same sem_undo from
list_proc or when it removes the last sem_undo).

After the patch I'm unable to reproduce the problem using the test case
[1].

[1] Test case used below:

    #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
    #include &lt;sys/types.h&gt;
    #include &lt;sys/ipc.h&gt;
    #include &lt;sys/sem.h&gt;
    #include &lt;sys/wait.h&gt;
    #include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
    #include &lt;time.h&gt;
    #include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
    #include &lt;errno.h&gt;

    #define NSEM 1
    #define NSET 5

    int sid[NSET];

    void thread()
    {
            struct sembuf op;
            int s;
            uid_t pid = getuid();

            s = rand() % NSET;
            op.sem_num = pid % NSEM;
            op.sem_op = 1;
            op.sem_flg = SEM_UNDO;

            semop(sid[s], &amp;op, 1);
            exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
    }

    void create_set()
    {
            int i, j;
            pid_t p;
            union {
                    int val;
                    struct semid_ds *buf;
                    unsigned short int *array;
                    struct seminfo *__buf;
            } un;

            /* Create and initialize semaphore set */
            for (i = 0; i &lt; NSET; i++) {
                    sid[i] = semget(IPC_PRIVATE , NSEM, 0644 | IPC_CREAT);
                    if (sid[i] &lt; 0) {
                            perror("semget");
                            exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
                    }
            }
            un.val = 0;
            for (i = 0; i &lt; NSET; i++) {
                    for (j = 0; j &lt; NSEM; j++) {
                            if (semctl(sid[i], j, SETVAL, un) &lt; 0)
                                    perror("semctl");
                    }
            }

            /* Launch threads that operate on semaphore set */
            for (i = 0; i &lt; NSEM * NSET * NSET; i++) {
                    p = fork();
                    if (p &lt; 0)
                            perror("fork");
                    if (p == 0)
                            thread();
            }

            /* Free semaphore set */
            for (i = 0; i &lt; NSET; i++) {
                    if (semctl(sid[i], NSEM, IPC_RMID))
                            perror("IPC_RMID");
            }

            /* Wait for forked processes to exit */
            while (wait(NULL)) {
                    if (errno == ECHILD)
                            break;
            };
    }

    int main(int argc, char **argv)
    {
            pid_t p;

            srand(time(NULL));

            while (1) {
                    p = fork();
                    if (p &lt; 0) {
                            perror("fork");
                            exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
                    }
                    if (p == 0) {
                            create_set();
                            goto end;
                    }

                    /* Wait for forked processes to exit */
                    while (wait(NULL)) {
                            if (errno == ECHILD)
                                    break;
                    };
            }
    end:
            return 0;
    }

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use normal comment layout]
Signed-off-by: Herton R. Krzesinski &lt;herton@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Manfred Spraul &lt;manfred@colorfullife.com&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Rafael Aquini &lt;aquini@redhat.com&gt;
CC: Aristeu Rozanski &lt;aris@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David Jeffery &lt;djeffery@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;

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<title>ipc: modify message queue accounting to not take kernel data structures into account</title>
<updated>2015-08-17T03:51:50Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Marcus Gelderie</name>
<email>redmnic@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-06T22:46:10Z</published>
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commit de54b9ac253787c366bbfb28d901a31954eb3511 upstream.

A while back, the message queue implementation in the kernel was
improved to use btrees to speed up retrieval of messages, in commit
d6629859b36d ("ipc/mqueue: improve performance of send/recv").

That patch introducing the improved kernel handling of message queues
(using btrees) has, as a by-product, changed the meaning of the QSIZE
field in the pseudo-file created for the queue.  Before, this field
reflected the size of the user-data in the queue.  Since, it also takes
kernel data structures into account.  For example, if 13 bytes of user
data are in the queue, on my machine the file reports a size of 61
bytes.

There was some discussion on this topic before (for example
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/1/115).  Commenting on a th lkml, Michael
Kerrisk gave the following background
(https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/16/74):

    The pseudofiles in the mqueue filesystem (usually mounted at
    /dev/mqueue) expose fields with metadata describing a message
    queue. One of these fields, QSIZE, as originally implemented,
    showed the total number of bytes of user data in all messages in
    the message queue, and this feature was documented from the
    beginning in the mq_overview(7) page. In 3.5, some other (useful)
    work happened to break the user-space API in a couple of places,
    including the value exposed via QSIZE, which now includes a measure
    of kernel overhead bytes for the queue, a figure that renders QSIZE
    useless for its original purpose, since there's no way to deduce
    the number of overhead bytes consumed by the implementation.
    (The other user-space breakage was subsequently fixed.)

This patch removes the accounting of kernel data structures in the
queue.  Reporting the size of these data-structures in the QSIZE field
was a breaking change (see Michael's comment above).  Without the QSIZE
field reporting the total size of user-data in the queue, there is no
way to deduce this number.

It should be noted that the resource limit RLIMIT_MSGQUEUE is counted
against the worst-case size of the queue (in both the old and the new
implementation).  Therefore, the kernel overhead accounting in QSIZE is
not necessary to help the user understand the limitations RLIMIT imposes
on the processes.

Signed-off-by: Marcus Gelderie &lt;redmnic@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Doug Ledford &lt;dledford@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk &lt;mtk.manpages@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dbueso@suse.de&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: John Duffy &lt;jb_duffy@btinternet.com&gt;
Cc: Arto Bendiken &lt;arto@bendiken.net&gt;
Cc: Manfred Spraul &lt;manfred@colorfullife.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>ipc: always handle a new value of auto_msgmni</title>
<updated>2014-11-21T17:23:04Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrey Vagin</name>
<email>avagin@openvz.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-13T22:54:10Z</published>
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commit 1195d94e006b23c6292e78857e154872e33b6d7e upstream.

proc_dointvec_minmax() returns zero if a new value has been set.  So we
don't need to check all charecters have been handled.

Below you can find two examples.  In the new value has not been handled
properly.

$ strace ./a.out
open("/proc/sys/kernel/auto_msgmni", O_WRONLY) = 3
write(3, "0\n\0", 3)                    = 2
close(3)                                = 0
exit_group(0)
$ cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace

$strace ./a.out
open("/proc/sys/kernel/auto_msgmni", O_WRONLY) = 3
write(3, "0\n", 2)                      = 2
close(3)                                = 0

$ cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
a.out-697   [000] ....  3280.998235: unregister_ipcns_notifier &lt;-proc_ipcauto_dointvec_minmax

Fixes: 9eefe520c814 ("ipc: do not use a negative value to re-enable msgmni automatic recomputin")
Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin &lt;avagin@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: Mathias Krause &lt;minipli@googlemail.com&gt;
Cc: Manfred Spraul &lt;manfred@colorfullife.com&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;davidlohr@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
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<entry>
<title>ipc: Fix 2 bugs in msgrcv() MSG_COPY implementation</title>
<updated>2014-03-16T17:41:04Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Kerrisk</name>
<email>mtk.manpages@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-10T13:46:07Z</published>
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While testing and documenting the msgrcv() MSG_COPY flag that Stanislav
Kinsbursky added in commit 4a674f34ba04 ("ipc: introduce message queue
copy feature" =&gt; kernel 3.8), I discovered a couple of bugs in the
implementation.  The two bugs concern MSG_COPY interactions with other
msgrcv() flags, namely:

 (A) MSG_COPY + MSG_EXCEPT
 (B) MSG_COPY + !IPC_NOWAIT

The bugs are distinct (and the fix for the first one is obvious),
however my fix for both is a single-line patch, which is why I'm
combining them in a single mail, rather than writing two mails+patches.

 ===== (A) MSG_COPY + MSG_EXCEPT =====

With the addition of the MSG_COPY flag, there are now two msgrcv()
flags--MSG_COPY and MSG_EXCEPT--that modify the meaning of the 'msgtyp'
argument in unrelated ways.  Specifying both in the same call is a
logical error that is currently permitted, with the effect that MSG_COPY
has priority and MSG_EXCEPT is ignored.  The call should give an error
if both flags are specified.  The patch below implements that behavior.

 ===== (B) (B) MSG_COPY + !IPC_NOWAIT =====

The test code that was submitted in commit 3a665531a3b7 ("selftests: IPC
message queue copy feature test") shows MSG_COPY being used in
conjunction with IPC_NOWAIT.  In other words, if there is no message at
the position 'msgtyp'.  return immediately with the error in ENOMSG.

What was not (fully) tested is the behavior if MSG_COPY is specified
*without* IPC_NOWAIT, and there is an odd behavior.  If the queue
contains less than 'msgtyp' messages, then the call blocks until the
next message is written to the queue.  At that point, the msgrcv() call
returns a copy of the newly added message, regardless of whether that
message is at the ordinal position 'msgtyp'.  This is clearly bogus, and
problematic for applications that might want to make use of the MSG_COPY
flag.

I considered the following possible solutions to this problem:

 (1) Force the call to block until a message *does* appear at the
     position 'msgtyp'.

 (2) If the MSG_COPY flag is specified, the kernel should implicitly add
     IPC_NOWAIT, so that the call fails with ENOMSG for this case.

 (3) If the MSG_COPY flag is specified, but IPC_NOWAIT is not, generate
     an error (probably, EINVAL is the right one).

I do not know if any application would really want to have the
functionality of solution (1), especially since an application can
determine in advance the number of messages in the queue using msgctl()
IPC_STAT.  Obviously, this solution would be the most work to implement.

Solution (2) would have the effect of silently fixing any applications
that tried to employ broken behavior.  However, it would mean that if we
later decided to implement solution (1), then user-space could not
easily detect what the kernel supports (but, since I'm somewhat doubtful
that solution (1) is needed, I'm not sure that this is much of a
problem).

Solution (3) would have the effect of informing broken applications that
they are doing something broken.  The downside is that this would cause
a ABI breakage for any applications that are currently employing the
broken behavior.  However:

a) Those applications are almost certainly not getting the results they
   expect.
b) Possibly, those applications don't even exist, because MSG_COPY is
   currently hidden behind CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE.

The upside of solution (3) is that if we later decided to implement
solution (1), user-space could determine what the kernel supports, via
the error return.

In my view, solution (3) is mildly preferable to solution (2), and
solution (1) could still be done later if anyone really cares.  The
patch below implements solution (3).

PS.  For anyone out there still listening, it's the usual story:
documenting an API (and the thinking about, and the testing of the API,
that documentation entails) is the one of the single best ways of
finding bugs in the API, as I've learned from a lot of experience.  Best
to do that documentation before releasing the API.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk &lt;mtk.manpages@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky &lt;skinsbursky@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: Stanislav Kinsbursky &lt;skinsbursky@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge.hallyn@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ipc,mqueue: remove limits for the amount of system-wide queues</title>
<updated>2014-02-25T23:25:45Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Davidlohr Bueso</name>
<email>davidlohr@hp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-25T23:01:45Z</published>
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Commit 93e6f119c0ce ("ipc/mqueue: cleanup definition names and
locations") added global hardcoded limits to the amount of message
queues that can be created.  While these limits are per-namespace,
reality is that it ends up breaking userspace applications.
Historically users have, at least in theory, been able to create up to
INT_MAX queues, and limiting it to just 1024 is way too low and dramatic
for some workloads and use cases.  For instance, Madars reports:

 "This update imposes bad limits on our multi-process application.  As
  our app uses approaches that each process opens its own set of queues
  (usually something about 3-5 queues per process).  In some scenarios
  we might run up to 3000 processes or more (which of-course for linux
  is not a problem).  Thus we might need up to 9000 queues or more.  All
  processes run under one user."

Other affected users can be found in launchpad bug #1155695:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/manpages/+bug/1155695

Instead of increasing this limit, revert it entirely and fallback to the
original way of dealing queue limits -- where once a user's resource
limit is reached, and all memory is used, new queues cannot be created.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;davidlohr@hp.com&gt;
Reported-by: Madars Vitolins &lt;m@silodev.com&gt;
Acked-by: Doug Ledford &lt;dledford@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Manfred Spraul &lt;manfred@colorfullife.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[3.5+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipc: fix compat msgrcv with negative msgtyp</title>
<updated>2014-01-28T05:02:40Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Mateusz Guzik</name>
<email>mguzik@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-28T01:07:11Z</published>
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Compat function takes msgtyp argument as u32 and passes it down to
do_msgrcv which results in casting to long, thus the sign is lost and we
get a big positive number instead.

Cast the argument to signed type before passing it down.

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik &lt;mguzik@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Gabriellla Schmidt &lt;gsc@bruker.de&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;davidlohr@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Manfred Spraul &lt;manfred@colorfullife.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipc,msg: document barriers</title>
<updated>2014-01-28T05:02:40Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Davidlohr Bueso</name>
<email>davidlohr@hp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-28T01:07:10Z</published>
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Both expunge_all() and pipeline_send() rely on both a nil msg value and
a full barrier to guarantee the correct ordering when waking up a task.

While its counterpart at the receiving end is well documented for the
lockless recv algorithm, we still need to document these specific
smp_mb() calls.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo, per Mike]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: mroe tpyos]
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;davidlohr@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran &lt;aswin@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Manfred Spraul &lt;manfred@colorfullife.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipc: delete seq_max field in struct ipc_ids</title>
<updated>2014-01-28T05:02:40Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Davidlohr Bueso</name>
<email>davidlohr@hp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-28T01:07:09Z</published>
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This field is only used to reset the ids seq number if it exceeds the
smaller of INT_MAX/SEQ_MULTIPLIER and USHRT_MAX, and can therefore be
moved out of the structure and into its own macro.  Since each
ipc_namespace contains a table of 3 pointers to struct ipc_ids we can
save space in instruction text:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  56232    2348      24   58604    e4ec ipc/built-in.o
  56216    2348      24   58588    e4dc ipc/built-in.o-after

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;davidlohr@hp.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Gonzalez &lt;jgonzalez@linets.cl&gt;
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran &lt;aswin@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Manfred Spraul &lt;manfred@colorfullife.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ipc: simplify sysvipc_proc_open() return</title>
<updated>2014-01-28T05:02:40Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Davidlohr Bueso</name>
<email>davidlohr@hp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-28T01:07:08Z</published>
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<content type='text'>
Get rid of silly/useless label jumping.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;davidlohr@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran &lt;aswin@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Manfred Spraul &lt;manfred@colorfullife.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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