3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Jason Baron <[email protected]> commit 93dc6107a76daed81c07f50215fa6ae77691634f upstream. Commit 28d82dc1c4ed ("epoll: limit paths") that I did to limit the number of possible wakeup paths in epoll is causing a few applications to longer work (dovecot for one). The original patch is really about limiting the amount of epoll nesting (since epoll fds can be attached to other fds). Thus, we probably can allow an unlimited number of paths of depth 1. My current patch limits it at 1000. And enforce the limits on paths that have a greater depth. This is captured in: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681578 Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <[email protected]> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> --- fs/eventpoll.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- a/fs/eventpoll.c +++ b/fs/eventpoll.c @@ -988,6 +988,10 @@ static int path_count[PATH_ARR_SIZE]; static int path_count_inc(int nests) { + /* Allow an arbitrary number of depth 1 paths */ + if (nests == 0) + return 0; + if (++path_count[nests] > path_limits[nests]) return -1; return 0; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
