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    fix for broken kernel side RLIM_INFINITY on mips · 8258014f
    Szabolcs Nagy 提交于
    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).
    8258014f
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