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Commit 2c12ea49 authored by Doug Ledford's avatar Doug Ledford Committed by Linus Torvalds
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ipc/mqueue: correct mq_attr_ok test



While working on the other parts of the mqueue stuff, I noticed that the
calculation for overflow in mq_attr_ok didn't actually match reality (this
is especially true since my last patch which changed how we account memory
slightly).

In particular, we used to test for overflow using:
  msgs * msgsize + msgs * sizeof(struct msg_msg *)

That was never really correct because each message we allocate via
load_msg() is actually a struct msg_msg followed by the data for the
message (and if struct msg_msg + data exceeds PAGE_SIZE we end up
allocating struct msg_msgseg structs too, but accounting for them would
get really tedious, so let's ignore those...they're only a pointer in size
anyway).  This patch updates the calculation to be more accurate in
regards to maximum possible memory consumption by the mqueue.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add a local to simplify overflow-checking expression]
Signed-off-by: default avatarDoug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Acked-by: default avatarKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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