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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/pipe.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/pipe.c | 19 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/pipe.c b/fs/pipe.c index fa3c2c25cec5..0523dd148ed3 100644 --- a/fs/pipe.c +++ b/fs/pipe.c @@ -30,6 +30,21 @@ #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 */ @@ -654,8 +669,8 @@ struct pipe_inode_info *alloc_pipe_info(void) user_bufs = account_pipe_buffers(user, 0, pipe_bufs); if (too_many_pipe_buffers_soft(user_bufs) && 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) && is_unprivileged_user()) |