passt: Set soft limit for number of open files to hard limit

Default value for /proc/sys/fs/nr_open is 2^20, which is more than
enough: set this hard limit as current (soft) limit on start, and
drop the 'ulimit -n' from the demo script.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/passt.c b/passt.c
index 9786221..6b160c0 100644
--- a/passt.c
+++ b/passt.c
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 #include <sys/socket.h>
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <sys/ioctl.h>
+#include <sys/resource.h>
 #include <sys/un.h>
 #include <ifaddrs.h>
 #include <linux/if_ether.h>
@@ -513,6 +514,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	struct timespec last_time;
 	struct ctx c = { 0 };
 	int nfds, i, fd_unix;
+	struct rlimit limit;
 
 	if (argc != 1)
 		usage(argv[0]);
@@ -528,6 +530,16 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
 	}
 
+	if (getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, &limit)) {
+		perror("getrlimit");
+		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+	}
+	limit.rlim_cur = limit.rlim_max;
+	if (setrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, &limit)) {
+		perror("setrlimit");
+		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+	}
+
 	if (icmp_sock_init(&c) || tcp_sock_init(&c) || udp_sock_init(&c))
 		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);