[PATCH] Fix of bogus file max limit messages

From: Kirill Korotaev
Date: Wed May 11 2005 - 10:19:23 EST


This patch fixes incorrect and bogus kernel messages
that file-max limit reached when the allocation fails

Signed-Off-By: Kirill Korotaev <dev@xxxxx>
Signed-Off-By: Denis Lunev <den@xxxxx>

Kirill --- ./fs/file_table.c.filemax 2005-03-02 10:37:47.000000000 +0300
+++ ./fs/file_table.c 2005-05-10 17:37:43.000000000 +0400
@@ -63,42 +63,45 @@ static inline void file_free(struct file
*/
struct file *get_empty_filp(void)
{
-static int old_max;
+ static int old_max;
struct file * f;

/*
* Privileged users can go above max_files
*/
- if (files_stat.nr_files < files_stat.max_files ||
- capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) {
- f = kmem_cache_alloc(filp_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (f) {
- memset(f, 0, sizeof(*f));
- if (security_file_alloc(f)) {
- file_free(f);
- goto fail;
- }
- eventpoll_init_file(f);
- atomic_set(&f->f_count, 1);
- f->f_uid = current->fsuid;
- f->f_gid = current->fsgid;
- rwlock_init(&f->f_owner.lock);
- /* f->f_version: 0 */
- INIT_LIST_HEAD(&f->f_list);
- f->f_maxcount = INT_MAX;
- return f;
- }
- }
+ if (files_stat.nr_files >= files_stat.max_files &&
+ !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+ goto over;
+
+ f = kmem_cache_alloc(filp_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (f == NULL)
+ goto fail;
+
+ memset(f, 0, sizeof(*f));
+ if (security_file_alloc(f))
+ goto fail_sec;
+
+ eventpoll_init_file(f);
+ atomic_set(&f->f_count, 1);
+ f->f_uid = current->fsuid;
+ f->f_gid = current->fsgid;
+ rwlock_init(&f->f_owner.lock);
+ /* f->f_version: 0 */
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&f->f_list);
+ f->f_maxcount = INT_MAX;
+ return f;

+over:
/* Ran out of filps - report that */
- if (files_stat.max_files >= old_max) {
+ if (files_stat.nr_files > old_max) {
printk(KERN_INFO "VFS: file-max limit %d reached\n",
files_stat.max_files);
- old_max = files_stat.max_files;
- } else {
- /* Big problems... */
- printk(KERN_WARNING "VFS: filp allocation failed\n");
+ old_max = files_stat.nr_files;
}
+ goto fail;
+
+fail_sec:
+ file_free(f);
fail:
return NULL;
}