History log of /seL4-camkes-master/projects/musllibc/src/linux/prlimit.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# 8258014f 30-May-2014 Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@port70.net>

fix for broken kernel side RLIM_INFINITY on mips

On 32 bit mips the kernel uses -1UL/2 to mark RLIM_INFINITY (and
this is the definition in the userspace api), but since it is in
the middle of the valid range of limits and limits are often
compared with relational operators, various kernel side logic is
broken if larger than -1UL/2 limits are used. So we truncate the
limits to -1UL/2 in get/setrlimit and prlimit.

Even if the kernel side logic consistently treated -1UL/2 as greater
than any other limit value, there wouldn't be any clean workaround
that allowed using large limits:
* using -1UL/2 as RLIM_INFINITY in userspace would mean different
infinity value for get/setrlimt and prlimit (where infinity is always
-1ULL) and userspace logic could break easily (just like the kernel
is broken now) and more special case code would be needed for mips.
* translating -1UL/2 kernel side value to -1ULL in userspace would
mean that -1UL/2 limit cannot be set (eg. -1UL/2+1 had to be passed
to the kernel instead).


# 57174444 11-Dec-2013 Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@port70.net>

include cleanups: remove unused headers and add feature test macros


# f600105e 21-Sep-2012 Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>

LFS64 alias for prlimit

issue reported/requested by Justin Cormack


# b9bb8f67 06-Sep-2012 Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>

cleanup src/linux and src/misc trees, etc.

previously, it was pretty much random which one of these trees a given
function appeared in. they have now been organized into:

src/linux: non-POSIX linux syscalls (possibly shard with other nixen)
src/legacy: various obsolete/legacy functions, mostly wrappers
src/misc: still mostly uncategorized; some misc POSIX, some nonstd
src/crypt: crypt hash functions

further cleanup will be done later.