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Commit ac7e22dc authored by Eric Paris's avatar Eric Paris
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fanotify: allow userspace to override max marks



Some fanotify groups, especially those like AV scanners, will need to place
lots of marks, particularly ignore marks.  Since ignore marks do not pin
inodes in cache and are cleared if the inode is removed from core (usually
under memory pressure) we expose an interface for listeners, with
CAP_SYS_ADMIN, to override the maximum number of marks and be allowed to
set and 'unlimited' number of marks.  Programs which make use of this
feature will be able to OOM a machine.

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
parent e7099d8a
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