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pipe: increase minimum default pipe size to 2 pages
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This program always prints 4096 and hangs before the patch, and always
prints 8192 and exits successfully after:

  int main()
  {
      int pipefd[2];
      for (int i = 0; i < 1025; i++)
          if (pipe(pipefd) == -1)
              return 1;
      size_t bufsz = fcntl(pipefd[1], F_GETPIPE_SZ);
      printf("%zd\n", bufsz);
      char *buf = calloc(bufsz, 1);
      write(pipefd[1], buf, bufsz);
      read(pipefd[0], buf, bufsz-1);
      write(pipefd[1], buf, 1);
  }

Note that you may need to increase your RLIMIT_NOFILE before running the
program.

Fixes: 759c011 ("pipe: limit the per-user amount of pages allocated in pipes")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1628086770.5rn8p04n6j.none@localhost/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1628127094.lxxn016tj7.none@localhost/
Signed-off-by: Alex Xu (Hello71) <alex_y_xu@yahoo.ca>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Hello71 authored and torvalds committed Aug 5, 2021
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19 changes: 17 additions & 2 deletions fs/pipe.c
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#include "internal.h"

/*
* New pipe buffers will be restricted to this size while the user is exceeding
* their pipe buffer quota. The general pipe use case needs at least two
* buffers: one for data yet to be read, and one for new data. If this is less
* than two, then a write to a non-empty pipe may block even if the pipe is not
* full. This can occur with GNU make jobserver or similar uses of pipes as
* semaphores: multiple processes may be waiting to write tokens back to the
* pipe before reading tokens: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1628086770.5rn8p04n6j.none@localhost/.
*
* Users can reduce their pipe buffers with F_SETPIPE_SZ below this at their
* own risk, namely: pipe writes to non-full pipes may block until the pipe is
* emptied.
*/
#define PIPE_MIN_DEF_BUFFERS 2

/*
* The max size that a non-root user is allowed to grow the pipe. Can
* be set by root in /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size
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user_bufs = account_pipe_buffers(user, 0, pipe_bufs);

if (too_many_pipe_buffers_soft(user_bufs) && pipe_is_unprivileged_user()) {
user_bufs = account_pipe_buffers(user, pipe_bufs, 1);
pipe_bufs = 1;
user_bufs = account_pipe_buffers(user, pipe_bufs, PIPE_MIN_DEF_BUFFERS);
pipe_bufs = PIPE_MIN_DEF_BUFFERS;
}

if (too_many_pipe_buffers_hard(user_bufs) && pipe_is_unprivileged_user())
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