Allow ARG_MAX execve string space even with a small stack limit
The new code that removed the limitation on the execve string size (which was historically 32 pages) replaced it with a much softer limit based on RLIMIT_STACK which is usually much larger than the traditional limit. See commit b6a2fea3 ("mm: variable length argument support") for details. However, if you have a small stack limit (perhaps because you need lots of stacks in a threaded environment), the new heuristic of allowing up to 1/4th of RLIMIT_STACK to be used for argument and environment strings could actually be smaller than the old limit. So just say that it's ok to have up to ARG_MAX strings regardless of the value of RLIMIT_STACK, and check the rlimit only when going over that traditional limit. (Of course, if you actually have a *really* small stack limit, the whole stack itself will be limited before you hit ARG_MAX, but that has always been true and is clearly the right behaviour anyway). Acked-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@codesourcery.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <michael.kerrisk@googlemail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Ollie Wild <aaw@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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