From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 05:57:35 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: [PATCH] 2.5.6-pre3 Fix BSD accounting rlimit
X-Git-Tag: v2.5.7-pre1~28^2~8
X-Git-Url: http://git.neil.brown.name/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d82d83bbc7e3daaf6456487901a3597139b46731;p=history.git

[PATCH] 2.5.6-pre3 Fix BSD accounting rlimit

Fix rlimit on accounting file.
---

diff --git a/kernel/acct.c b/kernel/acct.c
index 99f44df17b49..a2787eb242a1 100644
--- a/kernel/acct.c
+++ b/kernel/acct.c
@@ -311,6 +311,7 @@ static void do_acct_process(long exitcode, struct file *file)
 	struct acct ac;
 	mm_segment_t fs;
 	unsigned long vsize;
+	unsigned long flim;
 
 	/*
 	 * First check to see if there is enough free_space to continue
@@ -372,8 +373,14 @@ static void do_acct_process(long exitcode, struct file *file)
          */
 	fs = get_fs();
 	set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
+	/*
+ 	 * Accounting records are not subject to resource limits.
+ 	 */
+	flim = current->rlim[RLIMIT_FSIZE].rlim_cur;
+	current->rlim[RLIMIT_FSIZE].rlim_cur = RLIM_INFINITY;
 	file->f_op->write(file, (char *)&ac,
 			       sizeof(struct acct), &file->f_pos);
+	current->rlim[RLIMIT_FSIZE].rlim_cur = flim;
 	set_fs(fs);
 }