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unix_create1() returns NULL on error, and the callers assume that it never
fails for reasons other than out of memory. So, the callers always return
-ENOMEM when unix_create1() fails.
However, it also returns NULL when the number of af_unix sockets exceeds
twice the limit controlled by sysctl: fs.file-max. In this case, the
callers should return -ENFILE like alloc_empty_file().
This patch changes unix_create1() to return the correct error value instead
of NULL on error.
Out of curiosity, the assumption has been wrong since 1999 due to this
change introduced in 2.2.4 [0].
diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.2.3/linux/net/unix/af_unix.c linux/net/unix/af_unix.c
--- v2.2.3/linux/net/unix/af_unix.c Tue Jan 19 11:32:53 1999
+++ linux/net/unix/af_unix.c Sun Mar 21 07:22:00 1999
@@ -388,6 +413,9 @@
{
struct sock *sk;
+ if (atomic_read(&unix_nr_socks) >= 2*max_files)
+ return NULL;
+
MOD_INC_USE_COUNT;
sk = sk_alloc(PF_UNIX, GFP_KERNEL, 1);
if (!sk) {
[0]: https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.2/patch-2.2.4.gz
Fixes: 1da177e4c3 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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